May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
- 29 Be kind to your knees. And don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
- 26 Polyculture all the Way – Podcast 27
- 19 Podcast #26 Minding Your Manure
- 18 Mucking about in manure–theoretically
- 15 EarthMinded RainStation: The ultimate rain barrel?
- 5 Podcast #24 From Seed to Seedling
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
- 23 King Corn: an exposé with a light touch
- 19 Podcast #13 – Notes and Links for “Turning the Tables: Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto”
- 16 Upcoming podcast: Organics vs. Monsanto
- 15 A Recipe for Childhood Obesity
- 1 Podcast #7 – Permaculture: Everything Counts
October 2011
- 24 The Manic Gardener PODCAST
- 23 A new look for the Manic: Comments, please!
- 17 Podcast #4 – Fall Garden Tasks
- 10 Podcast #3— Steps Towards Sustainability
- 3 Podcast #2 – No Small Potatoes
- 3 GBMD: What every gardener knows
September 2011
- 26 Podcast #1 – From the Ground Up
- 5 Plot 3: The Weedcloth Solution, or, how to get a crop on a weedy plot
August 2011
- 26 What’s wrong with this picture?
- 23 Summer fruit: strawberries
- 14 Time away
- 12 Time out
- 7 Introducing my son, Brook
July 2011
- 30 Plot 2: Next door bindweed plot
- 19 Plot I: your basic dig and amend situation
- 6 Kale feast
- 5 Plant plots or die!
June 2011
May 2011
- 29 Yesterday's omelet
- 29 Extra, Extra! Missing download cable found in husband's possession! Blogging once again possible!
April 2011
- 21 Toronto gathering for Dad: IV From Trickle to Flood
- 20 Toronto gathering for Dad III: Uncertain Plans
- 20 Toronto gathering for Dad II: Unremembered
- 19 Toronto gathering for Dad I: Reversal
- 18 Wild weather in Toronto
- 12 Master Gardening Class #1b: Soils
- 11 Master Gardening Class #1a: Logistics
- 5 Montana moments: corn growing in your what?
- 1 Stopping the Mega Load Mega-Madness
March 2011
- 31 News flash! Organic farmers take on Monsanto
- 29 Large-scale Bokashi??!?
- 28 Bozeman welcomes Rick Bass and the Bioneers
- 20 Back in the saddle again—
February 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
- 30 Minnesota is not Montana
- 11 We’re going to need a bigger harvest basket.
- 9 Gardening should get you dirty
- 6 Back Yard Mushrooms + The back-story, 2: The Fall
- 1 Injured in the line of duty
June 2010
- 30 Chicken Little was right…
- 18 The back-story, I: Bicycles
- 11 Down the garden path
- 8 My father’s stroke
- 8 My father's stroke
May 2010
April 2010
- 29 That’s how I roll: slowly
- 22 Easy Earth Day Action
- 19 Soil Blocks #3: Rocky Horror Picture Soup
- 15 Soil blocks #2: How to, Q & A
- 8 It’s found sculpture—it’s a 3-D Rorschach test—no, it’s soil blocks!
- 1 Home-grown greens in March
March 2010
- 24 A hefty discount, but whoa, Nelly! A weighty shipping fee
- 16 Organic lawn care: a matter of definitions, or a moral dilemma?
- 15 Bozeman home and garden show: not so much
- 3 Awards, accolades, aclaim, etcetera
February 2010
- 13 Discount offer (& book review) for Growing Stuff
- 12 Origin and Evolution of “You go sleep in the garage.”
- 11 Return of the potato specialist: Abdoulaye of Mali
- 4 Wildlife stalks the city
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
- 27 Holy smokes!
- 26 Hot compost, anyone?
- 21 Table scraps to the rescue! SF leads the way
- 14 Whatever happened to autumn?
- 13 GBMD Lia Purpura, “First Leaf”
September 2009
August 2009
June 2009
May 2009
- 23 Blow by blow: compost tumbler assembly
- 16 Belated update: prairies and garden plots
- 6 Non-compost-mentis
- 4 BGMD In Praise of Seasons
- 3 Spring birds
April 2009
- 23 This is the lounge where Kate lay
- 21 Belated birthday post
- 17 Category: Up for Grabs
- 17 Category: Enough already!
- 17 Category: The Kitchen Sink
- 17 Category: What’s Missing?
- 17 Compost Challenge: What’s wrong with this article?
- 17 Compost Challenge: What's wrong with this article?
- 16 About me
- 16 Contest Judges Held Hostage to Herman’s Hermits
- 16 Contest Judges Held Hostage to Herman's Hermits
- 14 Contest on the way–try it if you dare
- 8 You’re feeding them WHAT? Well, antibiotics, hormones, and — HEAVY METALS?
- 8 You're feeding them WHAT? Well, antibiotics, hormones, and — HEAVY METALS?
- 8 Product evaluation: stepable lawn aerator
- 7 They found me!
- 6 GBMD: somewhere i have never travelled
- 3 Shake or be shaken: see the big screen
- 1 Minnesota Spring: GBMD, approximately
March 2009
- 29 Shake yo’ compost screen
- 29 Shake yo' compost screen
- 22 Plant Power: Phytoremediation (Arsenic in soil, Part III)
- 18 Readers’ Questions: Arsenic from pressure-treated wood, Part II
- 18 Readers' Questions: Arsenic from pressure-treated wood, Part II
- 17 Readers’ Questions: Arsenic from pressure-treated wood, Part I
- 17 Readers' Questions: Arsenic from pressure-treated wood, Part I
- 12 So—what exactly is an Heirloom, anyway?
- 10 Plea to Preserve the Gardening Past
- 9 Dead, dead, definitely dead
- 8 Touch Your Tomatoes: thigmomorphogenesis
- 6 Spring? You’ve got to be kidding!
- 5 Bozeman Explosion: this is not a metaphor
- 4 Taste of Summer in March
February 2009
- 26 Updates: Of weather and health and typos
- 24 On Wasting Time
- 23 Compost, trucking, and other garbage
- 22 Aphid Alert II: Indoor tomatoes
- 15 MS flare-up lays the Manic low
- 4 Doing it Right: Pearl Fryar’s Vision
- 2 Acidic Oceans? Keep Gardening!
- 1 Greenhouse construction
January 2009
- 29 Greenhouse Blues
- 21 Compost vs. Arsenic: And the winner is–compost!
- 19 Er–coal ash as a soil amendment?
- 15 Coal ash in the garden?
- 10 Thanks to James, the White Knight of the Black Pitt–
- 9 For arsenic-free water, pull up your compost socks.
- 8 Flags at half-mast, please–the Garden Monkey retires
- 7 A play starring—the potato?
- 6 Elizabeth: a close call
- 4 the return of the manic
December 2008
- 16 The Wrinkled American: Tumble Dryer Addiction
- 14 Cold snap
- 7 Aphid Alert! Indoor tomatoes–again.
- 5 Transforming Black Friday
- 3 Compost tools: Rage against the machine
- 2 Compost auger: a rant
- 1 Secrets of hot compost in winter–I think. I hope.
November 2008
- 30 Hot compost anyone? Read it and weep
- 29 Eating Crow
- 26 Montana’s big moment–and big tree (revised)
- 23 Compost to control plant diseases (revised)
- 20 News Flash: Pine Beetles devastating US Forests
- 17 BGMD: Whitman’s “This Compost”
- 16 Pesticide “Inert” Ingredients–Not so much.
- 14 Tangled in the Web: Pesticide Research
- 7 Needed: a little madness. Or, Sock war history revised–get a life, Kate!
- 5 “They said this day would never come…”
- 4 Long grass leads to long sentence
- 2 Down the garden path: Last summer’s major project
October 2008
- 30 How green can you get? Hager’s Thin House Project
- 28 And the Arte y Pico awards go to–
- 25 And you thought YOU were putting on weight–
- 24 Nitrogen Deficit: Thomas Hager’s “Alchemy of Air”
- 23 Favorite Blogs #1: The Great Garden Monkey
- 21 From “dastardly” to “divine”
- 20 Potato Harvest in a Teacup
- 18 Cat-lovers of the world–unite!
- 17 Soil + sand = cement? Not so much.
- 17 Sympathy to Canadians–
- 16 “Bold and Beautiful” is Right: James Alexander-Sinclair’s Flower Book
- 14 Aw, shucks: Blotanical Awards
- 13 Monday Muse: Black Rook in Rainy Weather
- 3 A Sister’s Death
- 2 Home from Newfoundland
September 2008
- 24 Newfoundland #2: Wrong again, Kate
- 21 Hail Damage: Potato double reprise
- 18 Bare-stem Potatoes: reprise
- 14 Newfoundland #1: gardens gone missing
- 11 Bindweed #3: Beating Back the Bindweed Jungle
- 10 Okay, so I lied.
- 4 Bindweed #2: Digging it out
- 3 August Singularity
- 2 Bindweed, garden enemy #1
August 2008
- 24 Beautiful but Dangerous
- 18 Monday Muse: “Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
- 17 GTS: On the Nature of the Beautiful
- 16 Why I haven’t been posting recently:
- 16 Why I haven't been posting recently:
July 2008
- 28 Monday Muse: Kudzu is Coming– UPDATED
- 27 Run! Run for your life! Kudzu is coming– (revised)
- 26 Bare-Naked Potato Stems: advice needed–
- 24 Post-garden post: Lettuce, anyone?
- 23 Post-Garden Post: Garden? What garden?
- 22 I Used to Have a Garden, or, So who needs lettuce?
- 22 Fertilizing the Earth to Death: Thomas Hager on Nitrogen
- 21 Monday Muse: Wayward Wayman Again
- 18 Tagged by Victoria, who may remember in future to be careful what she wishes for.
- 16 Ashes: Almost the Perfect Lawn Amendment
- 10 Truce Just In Time: “Speech! Speech!”
- 9 Obama Defends Forests
- 9 The Great Transatlantic Sock Wars: An History
- 8 Dueling Limericks: so there, VP!
- 7 GBMB: Vegetables and Politics
- 6 Green Thumb Sunday: the lovely columbine
- 3 Dueling Bloggers
- 1 GBMD: Woodchucks
June 2008
- 30 WHY Decomposition Uses Nitrogen (or, What I Learned Today #2)
- 29 Done at last–
- 16 Green Thumb Sunday: Larkspur in the Rock Garden
- 16 Blogless for a Day–Horrors! Or, Eric to the Rescue
- 10 Soliciting Advice: What to call the meme of ignorance?
- 10 The Worst Amendment for Lawns: Sawdust. (Or, What I Learned Today #1)
- 7 Chard Gone Wild = Garden Omelet
- 6 What’s for lunch? Dandelion Salad
- 5 A Lighter take on Heavy Metals
- 3 Heavy Metals in Wood Ash–??
May 2008
- 30 While the gardener’s away, hot pepper holds the fort–mostly.
- 28 Bowing to the Inevitable
- 27 And how did you spend YOUR morning? (A Nightmare, revised)
- 26 Creative (?) chaos–
- 25 The Blessed Rain
- 25 Renovating My Lawn: ready, set–wait.
- 23 Northern Lawns, Made in the Shade
- 21 Blame Blotanical–it’s not my fault!
- 19 HELP WANTED–2nd Year Onions?
- 17 Algae Blooms, Red Tides, and Dead Zones–another reason to go organic
- 16 News Flash: Synthetic Fertilizers Contribute to Global Warming–another reason to go organic
- 15 Just for a laugh, check it out
- 14 While the gardener’s away, the cats will play
- 13 Palimpsest: spring poem
- 12 Of Snow, Global Warming, and Bears
- 12 Time’s winged chariot drawing near
- 9 Spring has sprung?
- 8 Spring has Sprung in the Organic Greenhouse
- 7 Vindicated Again: Protecting Seeded Areas with Row Covers
April 2008
- 28 Organic Pest Control: Vacuum-Cleaner at the Ready
- 25 This Cold House: Chard for Organic Indoor Gardening Any Sixty Degree-Day
- 18 Letter from Toronto: The Look of Organic Lawns
- 15 Letter from Toronto: Pesticide Bylaw Not Quite a Ban
March 2008
- 18 Shop-Vac as Organic Gardening Tool: Suck Up those Cinch Bugs
- 17 Weird and irrelevant things I learned on the way to the organic lawn
- 5 Tomatoes, the inside story
- 5 Seattle Arson Lights Fire Under Bloggers
- 4 Indoor Tomatoes, or The Tomato Within
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