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Rented Garden: leather wing soldier bug, Podabrus tomentosus
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Monday, March 30, 2009. Leather wing soldier bug, Podabrus tomentosus. This is a baby little soldier:. April 28, 2012 at 9:02 PM. Thank you. I found a swarm of these beetles around a plum tree that is just starting to bloom. I was concerned that they were detrimental and am relieved to hear that they are not and actually extremely beneficial. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Leather wing soldier bug, Podabrus tomentosus.
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Rented Garden: Replacing our front lawn with a garden
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Monday, March 9, 2009. Replacing our front lawn with a garden. Our front yard was a simple lawn, never used and not really attractive. I should say never used by us because the neighbors were using it for littering and taking their dogs for a walk if you catch my meaning. Decided to try and dig up the grass completely and use the sod to create mounds to make the yard more interesting. Labels: lawn be gone. March 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM.
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Rented Garden: Lawn Be Gone
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Thursday, March 12, 2009. Our friend over at buenoluna. Taught a class she called lawn be gone. Here in California our periodic droughts make lawns a luxury. We decided to get rid of our front lawn. But how to do it? One method we used was digging a hole in the lawn with a mattock or shovel and then removing the sod for an area bigger than the plant that was going to go into the hole. Labels: lawn be gone. March 18, 2009 at 11:50 PM.
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Rented Garden: Hell Strip
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Saturday, July 4, 2009. Whatever you call the small planting area between the sidewalk and the street in front of your house, I'm sure you'll agree it's kind of annoying when thinking of what to do/plant there. It does allow for some infiltration of water, a break up of the asphalt and pavement and street trees, so it's not all bad. But it's a very odd, narrow piece of real estate. We chose a red maple. As did our neighbors on e...
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Rented Garden: Dwarf lemon tree and worm castings
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Sunday, March 8, 2009. Dwarf lemon tree and worm castings. The little lemonade maker we have is an amazingly generous tree. It's always provided us with delicious juice that has a nice tangerine hint. The monthly food for this citrus is about a 1/2 pint of our own home made worm castings spread as top dressing for its soil. And watering often but letting the soil dry wisely. June 15, 2009 at 10:56 PM. Climbing up a pea trellis.
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Rented Garden: Western Columbine
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Saturday, March 7, 2009. We have a shady spot under our lemon tree. We wanted to add some native flowers to the garden. In there we have some blue-eyed grass, larkspur and two Western Columbine (Aquilegia Formosa) that have flowered 3 separate times in the last year. The bottom pic is one of it's many seedlings. We potted 3 to move to the front yard once they are a little bigger. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Rented Garden: Beneficials and wildflowers
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Wednesday, April 8, 2009. All of our wildflowers from last year look like they reseeded, though some haven't bloomed yet. Baby blue eyes were first, followed by Tidy Tips, and then the Phacelia. Poppies were fourth. This was kind of a surprise. We've seen just one chinese house so far tucked in a corner. The wildflowers attracted all sorts of native bees, bumblebees, hover flies, wasps, ladybugs and honeybees. Planting Corn and Beans.
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Rented Garden: One year
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Saturday, April 11, 2009. One year later and our garden is more grown in. April 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM. What an amazing stonework in the path! Its funny that a year ago our green watering container was exactly in the same spot. June 15, 2009 at 10:53 PM. Its great to have a view of the garden from up high to look down on. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Worm Bin, red wigglers, eisenia foetida. Planting Corn and Beans.
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Rented Garden: Protecting your seedlings
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Saturday, March 7, 2009. Here we can see what is the difference for unprotected seedlings in the bottom right. March 7, 2009 at 9:39 PM. The peas were attacked by birds and insects.are you sure they weren't attacked by the true evilgarden blog? Garden adornments and amulets will not protect you! March 7, 2009 at 9:44 PM. FYI- not everything bueno says is really said by bueno. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Rented Garden: Planting Corn and Beans
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The story of three renters starting a garden from scratch in Emeryville. Saturday, April 18, 2009. Planting Corn and Beans. We know that corn is a needy plant, that has been around humans enough to need them to manage to exist in its delicious varieties. Some of the techniques that we have used to keep with their craving for nitrogen is planting beans along with the corn. Beans add nitrogen to the soil naturally and they are happy to use corn as trellis. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
