KathN's journal
Member since: Mar 11 | Last seen: Apr 13 | Years gardening: 25
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31 Mar 2013Greenhouse garden , Starter garden , Cyclamen coum Blooming, Hellebore "Ivory Prince" Blooming, and Hellebo...
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Clear 7°C / 45°FLike my garden, I’m crawling out of dormancy. The cold seasons were full of crazy-busy, only a small bit of it having to do with gardens and other growing things. I’m hoping now that there’s more daylight, and I can actually putter a little bit after work, the gardens will get...
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21 Oct 2012
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Winter Luxury Squash, a Review
Winter Squash "Winter Luxury" Consumed and Pumpkin Patch gardenMostly Cloudy 9°C / 48°FA quickie review for the Winter Luxury Squash (aka Pumpkin). I mostly grow sugar pumpkins, as I use them for baking, etc. Winter Luxury, being an heirloom with high marks from my seed source, needed to be tried. They supposedly keep very well, and had unparalleled flesh for baking. Well, all r...
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21 Oct 2012Chicken "Barred Rock" Growing, Chicken "Buff Frizzled Cochin" Growing, Chicken "Rhode Island Red" Harvestin...
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Scattered Clouds 9°C / 48°FDespite having dipped into the long dark season that is Seattle in autumn, winter and spring, two of the new girls have started laying. The girls are all grown up! It delights me to no end! The eggs are so tiny and cute! The darker one is from one of the Black Sex Links. The pale one is from o...
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08 Oct 2012Chicken "Buff Frizzled Cochin" Growing
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Clear 6°C / 43°FA couple of weeks ago, I noticed that one of the Frizzled Buff Cochins was making odd noises in the morning. A broken VW car horn sound, if you will. That has now ramped up to a full-fledged bawk-a-baaaawk first thing in the morning. Yes, she’s a he. And I don’t mind. He’s n...
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07 Oct 2012Kaffir Lime Treating
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Clear 16°C / 61°FMy lime tree is suffering from a scale infestation. I had been wondering what those little brown flecks were on the leaves, but they’d been there since almost the first day I potted the little guy, so I figured they were probably just fly specks. Noooope. I had wondered last week why some ...
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15 Sep 2012Chicken "Barred Rock" Growing, Chicken "Black Sex Link" Growing, Chicken "Buff Frizzled Cochin" Growing, Ch...
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Overcast 22°C / 72°FWith the exception of Abby, who is about a year and a half old, all the chicks are about four months old. They were hatched around May 20th. And now they’re all looking like grown ups! They’re a hilarious bunch of girls, and all of them are bossy. While they started out extremely s...
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15 Sep 2012Kaffir Lily "Oregon Sunset" Blooming, Rose "Othello" Blooming, California Fuchia Blooming, Sunflower "Eveni...
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Sunny 16°C / 61°FLife has been a crazy roller-coaster since end of June, and wow, it’s been hard to catch breath let alone catch any images. But today is a rare, mellow Saturday, and the sun is shining, and there are still things flowering in my garden. I decided to stop and smell the roses, literally, an...
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08 Jul 2012
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Still crazy busy here, and the veg garden has seen a lot of neglect. I finally have a weekend off, though, and am getting some things done. Including an update! This is mostly for me, so I can add things to the timeline later. It’s quite a ramble. — Melons. Dead, mostly. The sta...Sunny 26°C / 79°F -
15 Jun 2012Chicken "Rhode Island Red" Growing, Chicken "Black Sex Link" Growing, Chicken "Buff Orpington" Growing, Bro...
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Sunny 24°C / 75°FI’m missing bloom day today, simply because I haven’t been able to get out into the yard to photograph anything. Which is too bad, as several things are blooming, and they look lovely. Maybe this weekend …. Well, the veg garden is suffering due to neglect and, I suspect, cold ...
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28 May 2012Viburnum "Cranberry" Blooming, Snowball Viburnum Blooming, and Bearded Iris Blooming
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Partly Sunny 16°C / 61°FMy irises have come back! I don’t know why they thrill me so much, but they do. Maybe it’s because I have very little idea of how they work, unlike roses, so they’re a constant surprise. Or maybe it’s simply that I’m surprised that I didn’t manage to kill th...
