Hip Chick Digs

One year ago today I wrote my first blog post. I tried to keep an agreement with myself that I would write at least once a week, and I held true to that for the most part. The goal was to keep a gardening journal of sorts.
One post a week turned to two posts a [...]

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I had the pleasure of spending Saturday morning with a good friend at the farmer’s market in downtown Portland. It’s the largest one in town and the earliest to open for the season. The past couple weekends have been too busy, so this is my first market trip for the year.
I showed incredible restraint throughout [...]

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A couple weeks ago our temperatures in Portland were dropping to unusually freezing temperatures. I wrote about the mysterious happenings, describing how my China Blue vine started turning black on the areas of new growth. I also noticed my beautiful hardy kiwi vines were showing black leaves as well.
I decided to write the folks over [...]

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Jay finished construction on our 8′ wide x 8′ tall four-post pergola. We are calling it the Taj Mahal, as it was a labor in honor of love for me Sappy, but in a funny way.
It’s safe to say that we are both incredibly impressed. He had no idea he could build something so [...]

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This is the first time I have grown vegetables from seed indoors. Normally I am a direct-sow kinda girl, but I wanted the greater variety in vegetable options so I could focus on heirlooms this year. So I went out and bought a grow light, made my seed pots from newspaper, and got the growing [...]

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