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   Sep 15

Plant List

Something I’m always trying to do is plant “useful” plants that help each other. For the last several years, we lost our squash plants to those damn boring bugs! I really try not to kill anything, but I go on the rampage with this little bastards. They don’t live sustainably, for one thing. They go […]

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   Sep 10

I miss my yard

Before we left Knoxville, I made a great plan for our yard. We’d worked several years to enact the plan and had made some great strides. I was working on turning our yard into a haven of edible, medicinal & otherwise useful plants. I was also working on keeping it native (or at least non-invasive). I […]

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   Aug 01

Hello my lovelies!

I know there are already a few posts up, but I wanted to take some time to introduce myself. I’m Claire, a photographer and suburban gardener. My husband, Nathan, and I just moved back to Atlanta from a 5 year stint in Knoxville. While in K-town, my goal was to replace everything in our 1/4 […]

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   Jul 30

Last year’s sprouts

Two years ago we were all good and started our seeds inside. They all died. We tried again last year with the same results. This year I just dug a trough and dumped a bunch of seeds in. It worked GREAT! I’ve been freecycling thinned sprouts ever since. But here are some shots of our […]

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   Jul 25

Pictures from my yard

My goal is to replace everything in our yard with something edible or otherwise useful beyond simply beauty. Here are some pictures of some of the beautiful stuff. Most of them having nothing to do with gardening and have more to do with the fact that we hate to mow and have loads of clover. […]

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