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• Posted by: Quinn's Micro Burb Farm on May 24th, 2013 at 11:00 am

  Well, hello! I got 1 vote for to put a different profile pic. So, I did it. Hope you all enjoy! I haven't eaten Squash blossoms before, but I heard about it. I figured they'd get smashed while frying them, and I probaly wouldn't do a good job of it. But, I'll have to give it a try. Anyway, I'll be doing some more re-landscaping with my helper working off her debt to me this weekend (Daughter with 1st speeding ticket - Hahaha). I will try to post some more pics of everything going on at my tiny homestead in suburbia next week! I'm going to visit Red Hill Hollow's profile page now.

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• Posted by: Red Hill Hollow on May 24th, 2013 at 06:22 am

  Thanks for posting new pics. I love the courtyard. The second picture that shows the shelves with birdhouses is great for a profile picture. I just put my squash in the ground on Wednesday and there were already flowers when I planted them. I actually started planting squash, particularly the summer varieties, to eat the flowers. I love it when there's a tiny patty pan with a big flower. Fry them up and you've got a lot of yumminess. Something to think about if you have more squash than you can manage.

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• Posted by: Quinn's Micro Burb Farm on May 21st, 2013 at 05:51 pm

  Thanks to everyone for your comments, I appreciate it. It makes this fun where I want to post more pics of the progress! So, as you can see in the most recent uploads the garden has grown a bunch in 5 weeks. There's already plenty of yellow squash setting fruit already and growing alot each day. I may have overdone the squash, but I don't care, I just love to eat the stuff. Everything I've planted except in 2 trays in another area are growing the best ever. I do believe we've done it right this year. Its very exciting to know I may actually have plenty of veggies for the entire family this time. We've also got back to natural landscaping in the front yard. That's my youngest daughter working in the front yard for me. She's working off a debt to me to pay for her 1st speeding ticket (hahaha). I have planted more veggies that like shade in the mulched area in the containers under the big tree. I have potato towers growing on the side patio. I've been cleaning up the side garden courtyard a bit too. I think it looks really pretty. I love being outside looking at everything now with my grandson. You'll see him in a couple of the pics too. My husband is almost finished with the water catchment barrel system. I'll have pics of that when its finished soon too. He's also laying out cement stone pavers made with a form himself. The entire side garden will be done with these fake stones. We've been getting alot more ideas to cheaply fix up things, and we're loving how its starting to look without spending much at all. Please let me know if you like the little courtyard with the table and chair set in it to be my profile pic better and I'll change it to that instead. Or, just pick a new pic for me to use for my profile. I want you all to make the selection for me if you please. I hope all of you are doing well with your gardens this year as well. Show me what you've been doing and what's working so well for you. Bye for now!

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• Posted by: Red Hill Hollow on May 18th, 2013 at 09:06 am

  Hi Quinn. Congratulations on being farmer of the day and thank you for visiting my profile page. I love that you have told a story with your pictures and I look forward to more as your gardens fill in. This is going to be a big year for me with my garden, as we are removing all the grass in the front yard. I don't have the patience for it to take years of weekends, so we're having a landscaper come and do the heavy work. Then we'll have native shrubs and flowers, hopefully attracting even more birds and pollinators than we do now. I will also work in more in the way of edibles over time. So far, most of my gardening efforts have been in the back yard where my space is limited but you can see from my profile picture that I've got tons of space in front. I'm going to have a look through your blog posts here to see more of what you've been up to.

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• Posted by: Backyard Grower on May 16th, 2013 at 05:13 pm

  Really cool! So organized. Voted!

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• Posted by: Honey Locust Urban Farm on May 16th, 2013 at 02:33 pm

  You are very welcome! And thank you as well! I will be posting pictures of my garden very soon.

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• Posted by: CraftMcGyver on May 16th, 2013 at 01:30 pm

  What a great use of space! Love all the pictures. This is great inspiration. Congrats on farmer of the day.

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• Posted by: Quinn's Micro Burb Farm on May 16th, 2013 at 12:04 pm

  Awesome! Thanks for the comments and voting for me for Farmer of the Day. Didn't know it could be done again! So cool! I enjoy food gardening and natural landscaping. By the way, my husband built the beds for me. He's really good at building things for all kinds of project. I'll take new pics this weekend as everything is growing and veggies are blooming already too. Thanks for all your kind words, its very inspirational for me.

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• Posted by: Honey Locust Urban Farm on May 16th, 2013 at 10:50 am

  Congrats on farmer of the day! Your raised beds are awesome

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• Posted by: SierraTahoeDad on May 16th, 2013 at 09:07 am

  Congrats to you!

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