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10 Mar 2013
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I’ve marked a ton of my seed available for swap because they’re approaching two years since I’ve purchased them. Please have a look around my swap list and feel free to request away! I would hate for them to go to waste.Clear 6°C / 43°F -
07 Oct 2011Supermarket Garlic (Trellis) , Supermarket Garlic (cedar planter) , Cedar Planter #3 garden , and Balcony t...
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Sunny 22°C / 72°FOr, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” :) Last spring I potted up some garlic cloves that had sprouted, which grew up nicely inside my apartment and then yielded these lovely little marble-sized garlic bulblets after the leaves had di...
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13 Aug 2011White Queen Tomato , Tomato Beefsteak 2010 , Red Pear Tomato , and The Sky garden
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Storms 27°C / 81°F
It’s been pretty cloudy and rainy since the end of July, and with the tomato plants already a bit stressed from bearing fruit, some nasty surprises have shown up: I have early blight on my White Queen and Red Pear tomatoes, and a fungal disease and possibly an unidentified something else on...
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01 Aug 2011Tomato Beefsteak 2010 Harvesting and The Sky garden
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Rainy 26°C / 79°F
Hard to believe that my beefsteak tomato plant looked like this four short months ago, and that it started yielding fruit three months later that swelled and blushed in the sweet July sunshine, and today yielded lunch!
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22 Jul 2011Nicotiana and Cedar planter #1 garden
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Sunny 32°C / 90°FNicotiana is in full bloom, but I pulled the plant anyway this morning. Leaves exude sticky substance (nicotine, I guess) which doesn’t smell great and turns the entire plant into a living piece of dirt-collecting yellow fly paper. Not ideal for a high-traffic area like right next to the do...
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14 Jul 2011
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - July 2011
Morning Glory Budding, White Queen Tomato Flowering, Shasta Daisy Blooming, Santropol Nasturtiums Blooming,...Sunny 28°C / 82°FNot only are the wintersown velvetleaf and wild carrot blooming on my balcony, but so are the ever-reliable marigold and bacopa. The heat is causing the sacred and Thai basils to bolt. The cinnamon-candy smell of the Thai variety when you brush your hand over the plants is heavenly. I’m not...
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13 Jul 2011Velvetleaf Blooming and Cedar Planter #3 garden
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Sunny 26°C / 79°FJust for fun last fall, I collected a bunch of seed from various unidentified plants around the neighbourhood (here and here) and wintersowed them with the idea of eventually identifying them when they flowered. The first ID of the season is Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrastii), a member of the mal...
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01 Jul 2011The Sky garden and Shasta Daisy Under Attack
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Sunny 28°C / 82°FSo, I found these creepy-crawlies on my budding shasta daisies today. Do they look like aphids to you? How can I get rid of them (organically)?
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15 Jun 2011
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Weeds of the Balcony, Not-Quite-Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day Edition
Epilobium sp. Blooming and Cedar planter #1 gardenSunny 27°C / 81°FInspired by this tweet, not quite in time for Wordless Wednesday or Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, here it is, the “weed” that’s been enchanting me these past couple of days: Willowherb (Epilobium, genus that includes Fireweed). I only noticed it when its tiny, pink flowers s...
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14 Jun 2011Red Russian Kale Harvesting and Cedar planter #2 garden
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Sunny 27°C / 81°FAlthough harvesting the two bolting bok choy from the front balcony, the cedar planter they used to live in is still quite crowded, leading to the Purple Peacock broccoli and Dinosaur Kale being quite undersized. I harvested the Red Russian kale and made this tasty salad. The Dino kale and the he...
