Category: Gardening
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Okinawa
We’re moving to Okinawa! Okinawa (沖縄) is part of the Ryukyu Islands (琉球諸島). One food that we are excited to try to grow is the (purple!) Okinawan sweet potato. They also have the Ryukyu flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus) a type of huge fruit bat. The group is known as the megabats! We got a fixer-upper…
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Weather Spark
I was looking for information about the last frost dates and found the Weather Spark site that I thought I would share. Weather Spark has a lot of information about locations all around the world. In the plot above, you can see that the average low temperature is just now pulling above freezing but will…
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Beekeeping Video
Here is a video I saw on YouTube and wanted to share. I don’t know anything at all about beekeeping, but I have wondered about it from time to time. This video follows Alex over one year of starting beekeeping, from getting his first bees all the way to getting his first honey harvest (12…
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Strawberries
Another plant that might be planted in the fall, in addition to garlic, that comes to mind are strawberries. Honestly, I have a bit of an aversion to growing strawberries. We had them in our garden for a while when I was a kid, and they seemed like they were more work (weeding) than they…
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Serpent Spear-Onions
We are planning to move later this year, and I am really hoping to be able to have a garden again. I grew up gardening, but we haven’t had one in decades because of living in apartments in cities and moving every few years (although I have always grown potted plants in our apartments). If…