Rick's Roots - A Gardening Blog

This is my blog about gardening in North Carolina, and experimentation with Hydroponics, both indoor and outdoor, upside down and container gardening, and other gardening and landscaping topics.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Container Pickles - Growing Cucumbers in the "City Pickers"

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I'm a big fan of self-watering containers, like the Earthbox, but I'm not a big fan of the Earthbox price at around $50 on Amazon an...

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Stringing your Tomatoes - How to avoid the falling tomato plant

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I've been using the string trellis method to grow my tomatoes vertically for 3 years now. And with much success. One problem I've...

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

More spring planting

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I don't have any pictures this time but I did feel like writing something about gardening and what's been going on lately in my gard...

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

First Garden Post of the Spring!

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Well, as usual I stopped blogging half way through the gardening season last year. Actually it was a tough summer - very hot and wet. Many...

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Work Garden Update

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My patio garden at work is going fairly well. Here is a "front" and "back" photo of my rubbermade tote garden... cont...

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Weekend Landscaping Project

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Getting the back yard sodded last week motivated me to finally do something about the completely dead "yard" on the side of the ho...

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Vines: Onward and Upward!

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I have a number of vining plants that are vigorously growing in the heat of late spring here in North Carolina, and I thought I'd share ...

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Rick Root: Hi, I'm Rick Root! I'm a coldfusion programmer at Duke University, and this is my personal blog.

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