Comments for Farming Philly https://www.farmingphilly.com Urban Agriculture in the City of Brotherly Love Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:59:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 Comment on My 2020 Garden’s Indoor Jump Start by Discovering Dining Room Tabletop Microgreens | Seasonal Chef https://www.farmingphilly.com/2020/02/23/my-garden-gets-an-indoor-jump-start/#comment-42659 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:59:11 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=806#comment-42659 […] red chard, garnet red amaranth, and a kale mix–in February in the idyllic confines of the Fairmount Park Horticultural Center greenhouse, where I landed a spot this year after a couple of years on a waiting […]

]]> Comment on Microgreens to the Rescue by Discovering Dining Room Tabletop Microgreens | Seasonal Chef https://www.farmingphilly.com/2020/03/18/microgreens-to-the-rescue/#comment-42658 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:58:15 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=827#comment-42658 […] I brought them all home, where they–thanks to the jumpstart they got in the greenhouse–continued to thrive on my dining room tabletop, and provide a continuous harvest for the next several […]

]]> Comment on Damned Squirrels Left Me One Tomato All Summer! by Min https://www.farmingphilly.com/2020/09/16/squirrels-left-me-one-tomato-all-summer/#comment-42431 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:20:02 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=998#comment-42431 understand, I am in the same situation.
There is no way to stop them, full cage is the only way to stop them.
So, I am thinking a kind of special electric shock fence to protect my garden.
It is simple, instead grounding, use two spiral structure wires, if they touch two of them together, it will make them scared,

]]> Comment on Uh Oh! Lantern Fly Nymphs by Rhona Wene https://www.farmingphilly.com/2020/05/30/uh-oh-lantern-fly-nymphs/#comment-40664 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:29:59 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=973#comment-40664 I have an infestation of spotted lantern flies invading my back yard from a property that abuts it but is not mine. It belongs to a company that purchased the property in order to build houses on it but never did. Instead there is a lot of scrub growth which is home to these lantern flies. The area is mowed regularly by the owner (I don’t know who that may be). The area is behind a locked chain link fence. I contacted the Pennsylvania department of agriculture as their web site requested and was told to contact the municipality about this.

]]> Comment on Sure Sign of Spring: Philly Muni Compost by Philly Compost is Back, Free and Socially Distanced | Farming Philly https://www.farmingphilly.com/2019/04/05/sure-sign-of-spring-philly-muni-compost/#comment-39687 Thu, 21 May 2020 21:34:31 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=704#comment-39687 […] West Fairmount Park usually opens its doors to aficionados of its free leaf compost like me at the start of April. That didn’t happen this year. Blame the coronovirus, and the fact that the huge mountain of […]

]]> Comment on Putting Philly Muni Compost to the Test by Philly Compost is Back, Free and Socially Distanced | Farming Philly https://www.farmingphilly.com/2015/05/03/putting-philly-muni-compost-to-the-test/#comment-39686 Thu, 21 May 2020 21:28:10 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=390#comment-39686 […] recycling center in West Fairmount Park usually opens its doors to aficionados of its free leaf compost like me at the start of April. That didn’t happen this year. Blame the coronovirus, and the […]

]]> Comment on My 2020 Garden’s Indoor Jump Start by Space for Rent in Parks Department Greenhouse | Farming Philly https://www.farmingphilly.com/2020/02/23/my-garden-gets-an-indoor-jump-start/#comment-39401 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:06:34 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=806#comment-39401 […] Read about my adventures in the greenhouse here and […]

]]> Comment on Microgreens to the Rescue by Discovering Sprouting Daikon Radishes on my Dining Room Tabletop | Seasonal Chef https://www.farmingphilly.com/2020/03/18/microgreens-to-the-rescue/#comment-38917 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:59:05 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=827#comment-38917 […] coronavirus. So I brought them all home, where they, with the jumpstart they got in the greenhouse, continued to thrive on my dining room tabletop, though it gets just several hours of direct sunlight a […]

]]> Comment on My 2020 Garden’s Indoor Jump Start by Discovering Sprouting Daikon Radishes on my Dining Room Tabletop | Seasonal Chef https://www.farmingphilly.com/2020/02/23/my-garden-gets-an-indoor-jump-start/#comment-38916 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:58:54 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=806#comment-38916 […] three other microgreen varieties and one microgreen mix, in February in the idyllic confines of the Fairmount Park Horticultural Center greenhouse, where I landed a spot this year after a couple of years on a waiting list. All of them flourished […]

]]> Comment on Locally Grown on a Historic Farm by Oldest Urban Farms in the Nation Still Going Strong | Farming Philly https://www.farmingphilly.com/2014/07/16/wyck-farm/#comment-33477 Wed, 22 May 2019 12:56:10 +0000 http://www.farmingphilly.com/?p=241#comment-33477 […] Farm used to sell its produce at a late lamented farm stand on the sidewalk on Germantown Ave. every Friday afternoon in summer, but that outlet for the […]

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