All posts tagged wine barrels

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Asphalt Garden: I Commit a Novice Mistake and Almost Drown my Tomatoes

Some deep digging turns up muddy soil and the reason why the leaves on my tomatoes keep turning yellow.

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Asphalt Garden: Calculating Costs and Figuring My Break-Even Point

It's an exciting time for the asphalt garden - fruit has begin to set on both tomato plants and the jalapeño, and the zucchini has tons of

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Editor’s Note: One Month Down …

My wife and I were high school sweethearts, and we took our early anniversaries very seriously. For the first year, without fail, we exchanged cards every month. It

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Asphalt Garden: Planting the Perfect Crop

Once I had prepped the wine barrels that were making up the raised vegetable garden in my apartment parking lot,

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Asphalt Garden: Picking your Planters

When I decided I was going to start a vegetable garden behind my apartment building, I knew I had one wine barrel at my disposal. I wanted

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Asphalt Garden: A Vision of Vegetables Danced in my Head

For the past three years as I've walked to my car, I've passed half a wine barrel that once held a tomato plant. Tenants in my building

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