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21 Jun 2010Cucumber 2 Growing and Patio Veggie garden
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Partly Sunny 13°C / 56°FWhen I went to check on the veggies this morning I noticed that one of my cucumbers has a little curly on it, it’s awfully cute looking. Perhaps the start of a vine with which to grab a trellis? If so, they have a bit more growing to do before they’ll reach anything to hold onto. Shou...
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18 Jun 2010Spinach - started inside Harvesting and Patio Veggie garden
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Sunny 19°C / 66°FNice day! Fired up the grill for some burgers. I picked some spinach to put on them since there’s not enough for a salad, and David made some super yummy spicy BBQ sauce which we used both while grilling and as a finishing sauce. Topped with red onions and cheese. Delicious! The spinach lea...
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17 Jun 2010Carrots (reg) - wk1 Growing, Carrots (baby) - wk1 Growing, Carrots (purple) - wk2 Growing, Carrots (baby) -...
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Overcast 12°C / 54°FI’d like to start using 1/4 strength 20-20-20 fertilizing when watering my veggies. Still not needing to water much at all due to the never-ending rain but I’m starting to need to do it more often. The carrots in particular seem to be taking to this idea quite nicely from the few time...
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13 Jun 2010Cherry Tomatoes Planting Out, Cherry Tomatoes Potting Up, Kitchen Windowsill garden , and Patio Veggie garden
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Partly Sunny 16°C / 60°FLots more photos of the process over on Flickr starting here. It’s not really warm enough but these little guys have certainly outgrown their 2" pots and I was very happy to have some sun to plant these out today! Logging the process mainly for future reference/use with other plants; m...
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12 Jun 2010Mini Onion (purple) - wk5 Sprouting, Mini Onion (white) - wk5 Sprouting, Spinach - started inside Growing, ...
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Overcast 14°C / 57°Fimages 1, 2 I thought these onions would take longer to sprout since it’s been so cool and wet, and just as I was getting seriously worried they wouldn’t come up, here they are. Perhaps I worry too much. image 3 Quick spinach update on the ones I’ve been harvesting from. Still g...
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09 Jun 2010Frontyard garden , Backyard garden , Retaining Wall garden , and Patio Veggie garden
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Rainy 16°C / 60°FWell. This is the most rain I’ve seen in a long while. Pardon the blurry images, but the dramatically wet clouds made it awfully dark out. In just a few minutes we had several inches of rain cover our driveway, most of which luckily was able to be absorbed back into the ground; we were quit...
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09 Jun 2010Carrots (purple) - wk4 Showing True Leaves, Carrots (reg) - wk3 Showing True Leaves, Carrots (baby) - wk3 S...
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Cloudy 13°C / 56°Fimages 1, 2 Purple Dragon (week 4) – Showing true leaves. Must have actually started a day or two ago, but it’s been wet and I’ve not been going outside every morning to look, just looking through the glass doors leading to the deck. images 3, 4 Nantes (week 3), Baby (week 3) &#...
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06 Jun 2010
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Sending cucumbers to "the farm"
Cucumber 2 Growing, Golden Baby Belle2 Sprouting, Kitchen Windowsill garden , and Patio Veggie gardenIndoorsI decided to send my extra three lemon cucumber plants over to my in-laws to grow. Dave is a fantastic gardener, and I’m sure they’ll be much happier at their place than the ones I’m growing here. Take a look at image 1. Happy plants. I’d set them on the stairs for a quick...
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05 Jun 2010
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Second harvest (spinach, thyme)
Spinach - started inside Harvesting, Thyme Harvesting, Kitchen Windowsill garden , and Patio Veggie gardenIndoorsNot as bountiful a harvest as the first one, but still a good bunch of spinach to throw into some salads. Chicken seasoning: lightly olive oiled, Chinese chili pepper, fresh thyme from the windowsill, salt. Grilled, served right away. Delicious! Since the weather refuses to warm up, I will probab...
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05 Jun 2010Cucumber 2 Planting Out and Patio Veggie garden
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Partly Sunny 14°C / 58°FVery excited to finally plant these cucumbers outside. Out of the five, I selected one with the sturdiest stalk, and the paired-leaf plant. The other three… not sure yet. I have the two plants spaced about 9.5" in from either side of the planter, giving them each about 19" of spac...
