MattMiddleton's journal
Member since: Mar 08 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 7 | Organic gardener
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11 May 2010Midtown Toronto South-Facing garden , Radish 'French Breakfast' Sown, Carrot 'Flakee' Sown, Carrot 'Dragon'...
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Didn’t get to planting as early as I would’ve liked, but I got done what I needed to get done. Need to get one more flat of marigolds for the east-facing garden, but then the border should be done. Technically, the Nutri-Red and Dragon carrots are planted together – neither had ...10°C / 50°F -
10 May 2010
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Cloudy 10°C / 50°FThere’s a tree in the backyard of my apartment building that bears these blackberry-looking fruit, but I’m not sure what kind of tree/fruit it is, so I’ve avoided trying to harvest some. Unfortunately, they fall all over the place and make a rather nasty mess for those of us wh...
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09 May 2010
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Manure and Marigolds (and worms)
Midtown Toronto South-Facing garden , Adventures In Vermicomposting garden , Bonanza Flame Marigold Transpl...I picked up my first batch of marigolds today, and while I’ll definitely need more for the border of the garden, this is a good start. I also started enriching the soil at the end of the south-facing garden that was dug up last year. The soil quality was pretty poor down there, which was a...Sunny 10°C / 50°F -
07 May 2010
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Adventures in Vermicomposting - Weeks 1 & 2
Adventures In Vermicomposting gardenIt took us less than 2 weeks to fill 2 bins with compostable materials – partly because we’re trying to shift to a more vegetable-based diet (though definitely not vegetarian – we both love a good steak!), and partly because we had some stuff at the bottom of the cripser that ha...Overcast 11°C / 52°F -
07 May 2010Wild Strawberry , Purple Cape Daisy , Golden Yellow Cape Daisy , Bicolour Pink Improved Cape Daisy , Velvet...
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Overcast 10°C / 50°FThe sun was out this morning, after all that rain we had yesterday, so I decided to take a few macro photos.
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06 May 2010Midtown Toronto South-Facing garden , Chard 'Ruby Red' Sprouting, and 'Veestar' Strawberry Flowering
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I’ve got the day off to visit with my wife’s grandparents, and before we left to go see them, I spent a bit of time puttering around in the garden. While I was in there, I noticed that some of the chard is sprouting – hooray! I’m thinking of putting another row in tonight...Sunny 9°C / 48°F -
05 May 2010Midtown Toronto South-Facing garden , Arugula Transplanted, and Mustard Mix Transplanted
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In addition to the two lettuces I bought on Saturday, I also bought some arugula and some mustard greens, but up until tonight I hadn’t found the time to plant the other greens. Also, I’ve put some soybeans in moist paper towel to sprout them. It might be a bit risky planting them th...Partly Sunny 11°C / 52°F -
05 May 2010
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First real eats from the garden this year
'Rouge d'Hiver' Lettuce Harvesting and 'Freckle Face' Lettuce HarvestingAbout half of our salad came from the garden on Wednesday night, as did the rosemary for the barbeque sauce I made. It rained on and off most of the evening, so the garden should be well watered for at least a few days. Need to deadhead some of the flowers – turns out they needed more wate...13°C / 55°F -
02 May 2010'Lincoln' Peas Sprouting, Pea 'Carouby de Maussane' Sprouting, and Midtown Toronto South-Facing garden
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Most mornings, I walk past the garden and do a quick check of where things are at, and this morning I had a very excellent surprise: my peas are sprouting!! Considering how long they’ve been in the ground, I was starting to wonder if they’d ever come up. I guess last night’s ra...Sunny 17°C / 63°F -
30 Apr 2010Midtown Toronto East-Facing garden , Midtown Toronto South-Facing garden , 'Rouge d'Hiver' Lettuce Transpla...
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Overcast 22°C / 72°FBought some lettuce seedlings, and got 2 of the 4 plants in to the ground today.
