Hip Chick Digs

City girl gets her hands dirty planting an edible garden and raising urban chickens

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Pruning Grapes

March 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

There are a handful of grapevines growing out at the Urban Farm and it’s pruning season! Some of them they let ramble, while others they focus on maintaining for good quality fruit. We went to work on the maintained vines and I learned a lot.
Last year I attempted to prune my two grape vines and [...]

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Tags: tips · vines

Plant a Teepee

June 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Constructing a simple teepee in the garden is a very simple and fun way to work vertically. Living in the city, we are all space-challenged and I have found the teepee a welcome edition every year. You can use old tree branches or visit your nearest nursery for bamboo stalks.
Tie your teepee at the top [...]

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Tags: garden art · projects · vegetables · vines

Mysteries Solved

April 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: vines