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A new-ish geeky gardener trying to make her small apartment patio garden successful and stylish for cheap! Helpful Posts: -How To Start Your Container Garden -The Quality and Monetary/Nutritional Value of Gardening at Home -How to Get Seeds for Cheap -Vermiculture: Composting with Worms -Pets and Plant Safety -How Your Garden Can Save The World -How to Hand-Pollinate Vegetable Blossoms -From the Garden Recipes -Plant Trivia Follow me on Tsu Home and Garden Web Link Directory | Gardening Links Directories Visit thisgeekgardens's profile on Pinterest.

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Fertilized the plants today. Aw yasssssss...Tasty buffet for my plants. How important is fertilization to your garden? Pretty damn important. I recently learned about the NPK ratio on plant fertili...

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New Additions to the Geek Household:

We have so many tomato seedlings* (I planted extra for my partial black thumb, but hey, 100% germination!), plus four more I bought, four cucumbers*, one sunflower*, a bell pepper, a jalepeno*, two avocados*, two strawberries, a new rosemary, oregano, thyme, sage, cilantro, another basil for a total of two, and curled mint, for the edibles.

* refers to plants I started from seed. And hey, these…

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I wish I had a better camera so I could share some pictures of the garden here; unfortunately, my husband’s the one with the awesome camera phone, and I keep forgetting to sneak my pictures off it when it’s available. Right now I have more little tomato and lettuce seedlings than I can handle, and they are all absolutely darling! Just picture it in your mind, okay? And then take some off my…

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Garden Update

The weather has been jumping back and forth so quickly around here! Sunshine one minute, rain the next…

On my last weekend (which was actually a Saturday/Sunday weekend for once; yay!) I visited a few local nurseries and made some good purchases: a variety of lettuces and spinach, Greek oregano, chives, and curly mint at one, English daisies and cyclamen at another. Oh, and then a few succulents…

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Happy first day of spring! <3

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Succulent Propagation

One of my goals/projects for the garden this year is to learn and be successful at propagating some of my plants. I didn’t do so well with my rosemary (I…kind of forgot about it and left it outside to freeze…poor tender thing), but I’m going to keep trying, trying, trying.

This morning I stumbled upon this excellent article for succulent propagation from the blog Needles + Leaves. It has some…

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It's Time...

Long time, no post! It’s getting sunny around here a little early, so I’ve been very excited to start some seedlings. I’ve got a gourmet lettuce blend, spinach, basil, and borage starting up right now, and looking real cute. As a little trick I learned from somewhere on the internet (unfortunately, I don’t remember where), I have them germinating in the warmest spot in our apartment – by, and on…

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Update to Growing Your Own Mushrooms

Well! I did as I said, and I attempted to grow a second batch of mushrooms. And, just 2-3 weeks later, I had cute little mushroom caps popping up! It looked like there was a ton of them, and they were doing great, until…They stopped growing…And now they’re kind of…Just…Dying.

So, it’s possible to grow a second batch of mushrooms; however, it seems like it might take a considerable amount of work…

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Washington Park Arboretum

Two days ago, I was bummed and feeling awful and didn’t want to go in to work. It was the last day before my weekend, I hadn’t slept well, and I was just crummy all over. My husband suggested that I look forward to the weekend, hey, maybe we could go to Seattle tomorrow, I kind of have a surprise for you…Well, since you’re feeling bad, let me tell you what we’re going to do, and boom, crumminess…

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Black Ornamental Grass Short post today. Just wanted to show off my new friend! Say hello!

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Growing Your Mini Mushroom Farm!

Growing Your Mini Mushroom Farm!

Previously on this blog, I mentioned that my mother got me a mushroom-growing kit for Christmas. Today, I’ll show you the results! *note: I have not been paid to talk about this product; it really was just a cool gift :) This is the box I had; the company is called Back to the Roots. They have two kinds of mushroom farms; the mini one (for mini oyster mushrooms) and a larger one, for larger oyster…

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Gardening to the Rescue!

Oh, wow, you guys. Guys. Oh my gosh. Wow.

So, I bought a grow light today, so I could tend to my indoor plants better. I have a mix of succulents, an aloe plant, and some bamboo that have not been getting the proper light exposure (our bedroom, which is the one place where the cats won’t get to the plants, does not offer a lot of light), and for good measure I started an avocado pit today, too (I…

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Garden Goals for 2015:

Did you guys get any good gardening stuff for Christmas? I got a nice shelf so I can do more vertical gardening on my patio, and a mushroom-growing kit! Mushrooms were on my goal list for this year, so I’m very excited to try it out!

(I actually used to hate mushrooms up until about 5 years ago…Now I find them delicious!)

I do have a list of goals for my garden for 2015, the first and foremost…

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone! It’s been rough lately so I haven’t had a lot of time to write/be on the internet, but I should hopefully have something up soon. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday with your families.

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Plant Something Good - How Your Garden Can Save The World

You’re a gardener. You care for and nurture some beautiful plants and some delicious vegetables. You know the value of nutritious fruits and veggies, and how important they are to a healthy lifestyle. You also know that there are people out there who don’t have anything to eat. And this year, you grew more than your family can manage.

Consider donating extra produce from your garden to the needy.…

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Pets and Plant Safety

If you remember this post I made about finding a place for my cats to not get at my plants, you will now find out that I am able to predict the future – my couch is currently covered in dirt.

The Faces of Evil.

It really doesn’t matter where I put anything, it will always happen.

(I’m not so lazy that I won’t clean it up, but it is 6:13 am and I don’t think my neighbors, nor my husband would…

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Why Gardening is the Best Ever

You know why gardening is awesome, right? Well, just in case you don’t…

You can save money by growing vegetables at home, and even more money growing from seed! Surplus veggies can be frozen, canned and/or pickled.

You get to pick out exact varieties that your local market might not carry. Try yellow cherry tomatoes or green striped tomatoes, purple, orange, or green cauliflower, purple carrots,…

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