Edison - Andy O'Shea's Experiments

Plant my first garden

Created by Andy O'Shea Mar 21, 2010 | Tags food, gardening, garden, plants

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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Andy O'Shea Last week was crazy, so I didn't have time to take measurements or make a post. But, this week I made sure to fit that in. Glad you're enjoying the observations, Matt. The lettuce has been pretty bitter, actually, never thought about the weather affecting that. Otherwise, though, things have tasted pretty normal with one exception: broccoli. We harvested our f... See more

Jun 20, 2010

Matthew Cornell Great work, Andy. You get a badge for the most extensive observations in Edison. :-)

Jun 22, 2010

Planting Garlic in the Pioneer Valley

Created by Andy O'Shea Oct 28, 2009

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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Matthew Cornell I'm also curious to hear how the taste compares to commercial. I'd be shocked if it's not better, but I'm not sure I'm willing to chew a bud of garlic as an experiment. ;-) In the garlic vein, we planted basil last year and it made a *killer* pesto. Waaay better than anything else I've had before or since. We ate a lot of it.

Mar 21, 2010

Andy O'Shea oh man, nothing beats pesto from fresh basil. This saturday I'll be planting a lot of basil to prepare for a pesto-making day later this summer. I'm curious about the taste of the garlic too. I've found that the species of garlic you plant makes a big difference. Whichever species you find in the stores seem to be pretty bland compared to the ones I've had from ... See more

Mar 24, 2010

Become a git guru Completed

Created by Andy O'Shea Nov 26, 2009 | Tags git, version control, svn

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

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

Andy O'Shea's Experiments

Plant my first garden

Planting Garlic in the Pioneer Valley

Become a git guru Completed

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