Rick's Roots - A Gardening Blog

This is my blog about gardening in North Carolina, and experimentation with Hydroponics, both indoor and outdoor, upside down and container gardening, and other gardening and landscaping topics.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

I say Tomato... you say Tomato...

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Something is lacking about the blog entry title.. I guess it doesn't translate well into text! So, my tomatoes are doing very well s...

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

New Sod!

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Tired of of the summer heat killing various parts of our fescue lawn every year, we opted to swap out the fescue for bermuda! We did the b...

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Garden Photo Update

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Here are some photos from the garden this morning! Click on the first one and you can enlarge and go through a slideshow. Rubbermade To...

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Peppers Purchased, Planted...

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Good morning gardening friends! I haven't posted much lately, but the gardening is going very well so far this spring! We had some 90 ...

Monday, April 23, 2012

Egg Shells for your Garden: Use the Coffee Grinder!

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Tired of finding huge chunks of egg shell in your compost or garden beds, long after putting them in? If you're like me, you do your be...

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Building up the Asparagus Bed

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I planted asparagus crowns in an old unused raised bed a few weeks ago. This bed gets partial shade in the summer - sunlight really from mi...

Monday, April 16, 2012

Cattle Panel - Multipurpose gardening helper!

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Before I few weeks ago, I'd never heard of Cattle Panel. Now, I know it as an immensely cool thing to use in my garden! To start, cat...

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Rick Root: Hi, I'm Rick Root! I'm a coldfusion programmer at Duke University, and this is my personal blog.

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