2011 gardening tips

Well, I'll use this post to collect tips and suggestions for our 2011 gardening.

First, from the Concord Magazine Blog: 11 Tips for Selecting Seeds to Grow in the Concord Area (Part 1 Open Pollinated Seeds, Variety, New England Sourcing,  Expand Harvest, and other good suggestions.

Updated: Here is Part 2:  http://www.concordma.com/blog/2011/02/11-tips-for-selecting-seeds-to-grow-in-the-concord-area-part-2.html


Also, this year hopefully I'll remember to get some straw for the garden paths to keep down the weeds.  Like here: http://homesteadrevival.blogspot.com/2010/02/preparing-garden-path.html  I love this photo and would like to do something similar.

Waltham to put on a Steampunk event in May

Wow, this will be cool.

See: http://internationalsteampunkcity.com/

And, where I originally found it on BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/13/waltham-mass-becomes.html

Scheduled for May 6th - 8th, it comes just before/as I leave for Google IO. But, I'll try to drive down for the 6th anyway. By coincidence, just after we get back from NYC.

another Mars photo - 'hills-of-endeavour"

thanks to http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/  more great Mars photos

the “The Road To Endeavour”, a blog dedicated to following the Mars Exploration Rover ‘Opportunity’ as she heads south from Victoria Crater to the much larger, much more epic crater, ‘Endeavour’!

blog post here:  http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/the-hills-are-calling/

Liking this panorama:

It still is so awe-inspiring to be able to see and post "local" photos taken from the Martian surface.  Gotta love the 21st century.

new toy from Google - Julia Map

see: http://juliamap.googlelabs.com/

snowpocalypse

Our fenced garden is almost entirely under snow.   Today happens to be the second day of storms, one each day.  January apparently 3rd snowiest January ever, and 6th snowiest month ever.  Sigh.

Thats the garden down there - see the top of the fence?

winter storm photo

I'm getting pretty tired of all the snow this winter.  And now look:

current storm