Author Archives: Brian Gallimore

About Brian Gallimore

Brian is a backyard vegetable gardener and aquaponics enthusiast. He also moonlights as a permaculture designer, maintains the online community northtexasvegetablegardeners.com, and sponsors the Citizen Gardener program in the DFW area.

Citizen Gardener Announcements – Spring 2013

Two more Citizen Gardener events for the spring 2013 season: 1- Teacher Training Class WHEN: Friday March 29 – 1:00pm to 4:30pm WHERE: Ft Worth (email for details) COST: free PREREQUISITE: Citizen Gardener class completion RSPV to citizengardener@northtexasvegetablegardeners.com 2- Citizen Gardener … Continue reading

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Citizen Gardener – Dallas – Feb 16 & 23, 2013

Announcing the first Citizen Gardener class in the DFW area for 2013.  Just in time for the local planting season.  Learn about the unique growing seasons and how to be successful in backyard vegetable gardening your first year. sign up for the … Continue reading

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How to Build a Raised Bed Box (alternate method)

This article will describe an alternate method to building a standard Citizen Gardener raised bed box.  The advantage to this method over the standard design is that it uses slightly less wood, wastes less wood, and is slightly simplified.  The … Continue reading

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Pictures from Citizen Gardener class 6 in Garland

Here are a few pictures from the recent Citizen Gardener class in Garland:

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RoT Organics Compost Tea Video

Obie from RoT Organics in Sherman made a great video on how he makes his compost tea: Professional Compost Tea Lots of discussion and various ways to make compost tea, find more on the ‘compost tea’ thread on the NTVG … Continue reading

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