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  • Homemade Seed Starting Trays
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    Homemade Seed Starting Trays

    ByKarsen January 18, 2016February 22, 2025

    I built my own seed starting trays for starting seeds inside my greenhouse this weekend out of the leftover scraps of lumber from the salvaged pallets I used to build a potting / seed starting bench in our greenhouse. Building your own seedling trays is relatively easy and inexpensive and they will last for years!…

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    End of 1st season using Mittleider Method in our new house

    ByKarsen November 12, 2015February 22, 2025

    First skiff of snow bringing our 1st gardening season in our new home to an end. We had a very productive and successful summer thanks to Jim Kennard (President of The Food for Everyone Foundation), Youtube’s LDSPrepper (David Gilmore) and their teachings of the Mittleider Gardening Method. I had many, many reservations leaving my previous…

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  • Make a Short Duration Irrigation Controller Using a Modified Standard Sprinkler Timer
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    Make a Short Duration Irrigation Controller Using a Modified Standard Sprinkler Timer

    ByKarsen August 16, 2015February 22, 2025

    What is a gardener to do when they have fantastic water pressure and volume but very poor drainage to the point that we have runoff at about 30 seconds in our vegetable beds? My solution was to build an electronic valve signal interceptor that cuts off the power after seconds instead of minutes. The ideal…

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  • veggie garden soil prep
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    Starting a Vegetable Garden – Soil Preparation

    ByKarsen January 4, 2015October 24, 2022

    There’s a lot of debate when it comes to soil preparation for vegetable plants. Some argue how important it is to add composts, manures and other amendments to the soil with the intent of “feeding the soil” so that it will, in turn, be able to feed the plant. Many, with that in mind, end…

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  • Mittleider Method Vegetable Garden - courtesy growfood.com
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    Mittleider Gardening Method Review

    ByKarsen December 16, 2013October 24, 2022

    The Mittleider Gardening Method – My Results This past year I have had the most successful vegetable garden that I have ever had in all my 20+ years of trying! It’s December now, there’s snow on the ground and it’s very cold outside. My vegetable garden plants have all died with the several frosts and…

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