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16 Feb 2013
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Cleaned seed trays today in 5 gallon buck of water. This year, keep a 5 gallon bucket of water when planting transplants, then rinse them after planting and put them back in the flat for next years seed starting. -
10 Feb 2012
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Lessons from others - to be continued
Do not put rock or other materials at the bottom of planters to improve drainage. This actually has the opposite effect and makes the soil hold too much moisture. You can put an upside down smaller pot into the planter to reduce the amount of soil needed to fill the pot. When planting new shrub...Cloudy 9°C / 48°F -
11 Dec 2011
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2011 Lessons Learned (to be continued....)
Test soil fertility and PH before planting. do not use city compost in vegetable gardening to prevent disease. start fall garden earlier according to schedule. sheet mulch in fall to prepare new beds for spring. stick to seed starting schedule. act on any groundhog activity early. remove any dise...Sunny 4°C / 40°F -
04 Dec 2011Squash, yellow crookneck and 2nd 4x4 garden
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did poorly this year. Never grew and died off. Check soil fertility and ph before next year. Also, maybe the city compost that was mixed into this bed was diseased.Cloudy 13°C / 55°F -
19 Oct 2011
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Sunny 4°C / 40°F
a black swallowtail caterpillar nibbling on my carrots.
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20 Aug 2011
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i started my fall garden today, august 21st. This is a lot later than I had intended. Fennel needs 80 days and my garden always seems to take longer than the maturity dates on most plants. Next year, I need to mark a calendar with fall start dates to make sure I don’t miss out.Storms 32°C / 90°F -
20 Aug 2011
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Zucchini black beauty. 1 down, 2 to go.
Zucchini 'Black beauty'The 3 zucchini have been producing very well. One of the plants I had to pull out be UAE it was all rotted out at the base of the stem. I,m think it’s due to the squash vine borer but I can’t be certain. I noticed a second plant is all rotted at the stem also, but it is still produ...Storms 32°C / 90°F -
09 Aug 2011
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Yellow squash stem rotting, 1 down, 1 to go.
crookneck squashmy yellow squash plants did not produce 1 fruit this year. They both stayed really small and only had a few flowers. 1 of the squash stems rotted out just like the zucchini and died. Probably squash vine borer. Stem was all mushy and fell apart. I’m nit sure why they did so bad this ye...Storms 32°C / 90°F -
15 Jul 2011Tomato, brandywine , Tomato, sweet 100 , tomato, ramapo , and Tomato 'Cherokee Purple'
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tomato flowers are not fruiting. I read that you can shake the vines to get the “perfect flower” to self pollinate. I have a few tomatoes on all but one plant, but lots of shriveled up flowers. We had a few days of 90+degrees so it may have been too hot also. I’m going to tr...31°C / 87°F -
15 Jul 2011Zucchini 'Black beauty'
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1 of my 3 zucchini has produced fruit and the other 3 are starting to flower. The flowers close up so fast, maybe because of the heat? I opened one flower up and a yellow jacket flew out. he must have got trapped when it closed ha! Still a lack of bees. I have only seen a few pollinating. Th...31°C / 87°F
