Andy O'Shea's Experiments

Plant my first garden Completed

Created by Andy O'Shea Mar 21, 2010 | Category Other

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Overview I will plant a small garden in the pioneer valley using the square foot gardening technique (http://www.squarefootgardening.com/) See experiment

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Matthew Cornell snap peas: I'm another fan! Ours didn't turn out well this year, but it depends on the variety, I think. Good experiment.

Aug 11, 2010

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Andy O'Shea Well, I think it's time to officially close the experiment for this year. Overall, I think it was a great success and I learned some important lessons. Since August the garden has been thriving despite my lack of attention. The last broccoli plant produced the nicest-looking head we had seen all year, the purple tomatoes kept coming (despite my lack of tying up the v... See more

Oct 14, 2010

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Planting Garlic in the Pioneer Valley Completed

Created by Andy O'Shea Oct 28, 2009 | Category Other

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Overview I will attempt to plant some garlic in my garden using a hybrid species from a local farmer (Delta Organic Farm). I will plant them with the cloves facing down in a newly dug portion of my garden. I will place mulch over the plants after planting, removing it in the late spring of 2010. See experiment

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Andy O'Shea Final Observation

Given my original criteria, this experiment was not a success. However, I will be trying it again next year using the lessons learned. Also, the amount of garlic harvested was so tiny, it isn't enough to attempt the side experiment of using it for pesto.

Watching the garlic grow was very exciting, especially seeing how it surv... See more

Aug 10, 2010

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Matthew Cornell Good work, Andy! Thanks for sharing. I wonder how my raspberry experiment might compare.

Aug 11, 2010

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Become a git guru Completed

Created by Andy O'Shea Nov 26, 2009 | Category Other

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Overview Read 'Pragmatic Version Control Using Git', migrate all svn repos I manage over to git, change branching/tagging practices to take advantage of git's features, train others to use git. See experiment

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Andy O'Shea hehe, actually gonna give them at work to my programmers :\ Though, I can easily be convinced to repeat such presentations over a beer.

Dec 15, 2009

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Andy O'Shea Well, now I'm using git regularly and successfully trained a few others to use it on their projects as well. I think that this experiment has been a success, and I'm very impressed with git overall. I still think that subversion has an advantage with its more simple nature, but the flexibility of git is staggering and I will be using it for all future projects. Also,... See more

Jan 01, 2010

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