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Member since: Sep 07 | Last seen: Oct 11 | Years gardening: 10 | Organic gardener
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28 Apr 2010
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Status of overwintered dahlia tubers
Dahlia 'Mascot Maya' SownCloudy 9°C / 48°FI didn’t check my tubers as vigorously as I should have over the winter. Loss appears to be about 15%, which isn’t much worse than previous years considering that my climate control options are more limited now than they were in the past. This year, I used two different packing media:...
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28 Apr 2010
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Cloudy 9°C / 48°FUsually I just plant my tubers directly in the ground, but I’d seen some pictures of tubers being started in this manner and was curious to give it a shot. Luckily, one of the nurseries I purchased from this year provided instructions! Each tray houses about twelve tubers. I’m startin...
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25 Apr 2010
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Cloudy 8°C / 46°FI bought over twenty-five new dahlias. This means, basically, that there will be no room in my garden for vegetables this year. My largest order was from Corralitos Gardens. They super-fun to order from. Instead of shipping tubers, they ship little plugs with live plants. Sometimes you can even s...
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30 Oct 2009Kitchen garden , Lemon Verbena Consumed, Strawberry 'Quinault' Consumed, and Lemon Verbena Dying Down
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Cloudy 15°C / 59°FThe lemon verbena was pretty much taken out by frost, but I had harvested most of the plant a few days earlier and made lemon verbena syrup. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been having a little as a sweetener in tea, or in sparkling wine. Today I went out to check on things in the backya...
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27 Oct 2009
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6°C / 43°FLeft to dry overnight: 4 – Spartacus (from the east bed, second year) 4 – Cafe au Lait (clump #2) 7 – Cafe au Lait (clump #1) 5 – Rose Toscano (actually 9 + the mother tuber, but only 5 look good) 9 – Ruskin Andrea 3 – Jennifer’s Wedding 4 – Ginger ...
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26 Oct 2009
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24 Oct 2009Beet 'Red Ace' Harvesting and Beet 'Touchstone Gold' Harvesting
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Overcast 7°C / 45°FThe season’s winding down, and as usual, some of the beets have formed nice roots and others… have not. I harvested the nice ones and left the others in the ground. At this point, I don’t think they’ll do much more growing but one can always hope.
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24 Oct 2009Dahlia 'Wild West' , Dahlia 'Ginger Snap' , Dahlia 'Duet' , Dahlia 'Mascot Maya' , Dahlia 'Crossfield Ebony...
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Sunny 9°C / 48°FDug out twenty-nine clumps today. They are stored in plastic garbage bags until tomorrow, when I will divide them. I don’t think I’ve ever had this many tubers in one year before, and am feeling worried that I won’t get them done before they start to shrivel!
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12 Oct 2009Dahlia 'Wild West' , Dahlia 'Duet' , Dahlia 'Thomas Edison' , Dahlia 'Bahama Mama' , Dahlia 'Korb Yellow Hy...
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7°C / 45°FLight frost yesterday— hard frost last night. Photo is Dahlia ‘Formby Kaitlyn’ after the light frost.
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08 Sep 2009Tomato 'Black Krim' Harvesting, Tomato 'Brandywine' , Tomato 'Green Zebra' Harvesting, Tomato 'Legend' Harv...
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Sunny 17°C / 62°FThe first harvest was marred by a violent heatwave followed by drenching rain— several varieties cracked. Subsequent harvests have been better, although late blight has taken its toll.
