I love this idea from The Gardening Cook- to create a drip feeder system to get water down to the roots of your tomato plants. She breaks it down into 5 plant families for us so we know how to plan our rotations. Grow a Good Life has a great post that helps us to think through mapping out our garden beds– with the reminder that we should be rotating what is planted in each bed every year so that we don't deplete the soil. And I need to be more diligent about “guiding the vines” to where I want them to grow!
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Instructables offers some great advice on how to make the most of your garden space– and confirmed what I thought, this year I should grow my cucumbers and zucchini vertically- either by guiding the plants to grow up on our garden fencing or by providing some sort of a trellis in the raised bed. I found this helpful post on 7 Best Vegetables for Beginner Gardeners over on Premeditated Leftovers that is worth checking out! When you first decide to plant a garden- the first question you ask yourself is what should you grow? And while you'll definitely want to grow fruits and veggies that you know your family will eat- you want to balance that against which types of plants are easy for beginner gardeners and will do well in your area of the country. I didn't know that I needed to thin my carrot seedlings- so I gave them no room to grow which resulted in bushels of teeny tiny thin carrots! And we only sowed our sugar snap peas once, when we could have been enjoying them all season long!Ĭlearly, I have more to learn! How to Grow a Vegetable Garden? Start With a Plan! A few cucumber seeds last year turned into a tangle of vines and a crazy number of cukes! Can I grow them vertically instead? This year I would like to be a little more strategic and do a better job of maximizing the space that we have. That first spring, the kids and I couldn't wait to plant seeds and seedlings- and without much forethought or “education”- we ended up with a rather bountiful vegetable garden! Over the years, we've learned a few things to maximize our harvest for our DIY Summer Camp at home! Here are 12 tips on how to grow a vegetable garden with your kids! It’s disappointing that the story begins with Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) enduring marital and parental distress, as if we’re not going to have a heartwarming payoff that Rachel Weisz didn’t come back as Evie O’Connell (although Maria Bello is just fine) and that Rick and Evie’s son Alex is the protagonist, even though the first Mummy came out in 1999 and he should be in Grade 7, tops, instead of a university dropout, and, as portrayed by Luke Ford, a smug, irritating chub.Īlso, the effects are crap, but that’s arguably part of the charm of the series.įraser is at his most charismatic as an adventurer whose obliviousness, compared with Indiana Jones, is far outweighed by his easy, even joyful combat with supernatural monsters.One of the coolest things about our backyard is the gorgeous fenced-in garden area that was here when we moved into the house. But writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (both of Smallville) deliver the film’s setup through agonizingly dull narration about love triangles and pottery-based curses thrown upon the titular villain and his host. And it was interesting to see Jet Li play the bad guy for once.
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It was a good idea to switch backdrops from Egypt to China, specifically the famous Terracotta Army, a natural fit for any movie that requires hordes of statues to lurch into homicidal but slow-moving assailants.
Unfortunately, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is not a well-made movie.
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In a year that has already seen Harrison Ford (now himself a priceless antique) break out the iconic whip and hat, it seems fitting that Stephen Sommers’s agreeably slapdash Mummy series should leap out of its own dusty cocoon. Rated 14A.īrimming with equal parts energy and nostalgia, Raiders of the Lost Ark was the summer movie that created its own genre, the archaeology-themed supernatural adventure. Starring Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, and Michelle Yeoh.
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