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Member since: Mar 09 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 5 | Organic gardener
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05 May 2013
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What a difference a week makes
Eastern Companion-Planted Vegetable gardenPartly Cloudy 23°C / 73°FOkay, 8 days, but still Photo 1 May 5, 2013 Photo 2 April 27, 2013 Honestly, I’d like a bit more spring weather… we went from hovering around 0 to the high twenties within a week.
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04 May 2013Chickens - Barred Plymouth Rock Harvesting, Asparagus 'Viking' Harvesting, Poultry garden , Pear Guild gard...
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Sunny 25°C / 77°FFriday Thinned and transplanted tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. Replaced a weaker ‘Black Beauty’ seedling with an extra ‘Black Enorma’. Similarly replaced some ‘California Wonder’ and ‘Jimmy Nardello’ peppers with spare ‘Boldog Hungarian&...
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01 May 2013
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First Official Asparagus Harvest!
Asparagus 'Viking' HarvestingSunny 26°C / 79°FOver four years after sowing the seeds I harvested my first asparagus. I have been checking on them nearly daily since the snow melted, and until two days ago there were no signs of sprouts, then all of a sudden they sprung up! During the mornings and evenings this week I’ve been working on...
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28 Apr 2013Microgreens: Lettuce 'Gourmet Lettuce Mix' Transplanted, Parsley 'Forest Green' Transplanted, Parsley 'Hilm...
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Overcast 15°C / 59°FThe daffodils are out, the spring peepers are deafening, and I’ve turned off the heat. Sure signs of spring! This evening I harvested most of the remaining lettuce microgreens (now baby leaf size) for a salad and transplanted the sturdiest looking seedlings to the front hedgerow. I also pla...
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28 Apr 2013Pond Border garden and Poultry garden
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Overcast 15°C / 59°FThis weekend was busy & quite productive. While none of the tasks is destined to become a yearly favourite, I am pleased with getting them out of the way. Wheelbarrow Rehab Last spring I purchased primer and two cans of enamel spray paint to coat the wheelbarrow. As spring started so early, a...
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26 Apr 2013
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In the Vegetable Garden (Grow Write Guild)
Eastern Companion-Planted Vegetable gardenPartly Sunny 4°C / 39°FI’m following along with the Grow Write Guild at You Grow Girl. The third garden writing prompt was to “describe your garden right now”. My main vegetable garden is entering its fourth growing season. Carved out of what was an abandoned hayfield I see: Quackgrass. Rocks. Mud....
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19 Apr 2013
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Spoke too soon about spring ...
Chickens - Barred Plymouth Rock-3°C / 27°FI don’t consider myself a fair weather gardener, and I’m happy to work through rain, and cooler spring/fall weather. I also will myself to work in hot summer weather, within reason. So on Saturday, I went out to accomplish something in the garden. Three times I thought the weather see...
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15 Apr 2013Russian Olive Fertilising, Alberta Blue Spruce (Dwarf) Fertilising, Amur Maple - Tree Form Fertilising, Che...
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Scattered Clouds 12°C / 54°FSquish, squish, squish. It’s mud season! Temperatures warmed up over the weekend and while Saturday was rainy, I was able to get quite a bit done outdoors on Sunday. With vegetable garden and new pear guild still soggy, I worked to clear old growth from the perennials and work the soil in a...
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14 Apr 2013
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So I guess that settles it ...
Eastern Companion-Planted Vegetable gardenOvercast 10°C / 50°FOne afternoon last week I looked out the window and saw what appeared to be a giant burrow between the vegetable garden and the pond. Yikes! I grabbed the camera and ventured out, hoping that I wouldn’t find a giant angry groundhog digging trenches through the garden. As I got closer, I rea...
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09 Apr 2013
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I know that winter storms can happen in April. There is a reason we have overnight parking restrictions run from November through April: snow and severe weather can persist despite everyone being ready for spring. Apparently the weather didn’t get the memo that we’re all done with win...Overcast 8°C / 46°F
