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Member since: Nov 08 | Last seen: May 12 | Years gardening: 3 | Organic gardener
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14 May 2012Wildflowers: Indian Blankets Blooming, DAISY - Shasta Blooming, and Driveway garden
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Cloudy 29°C / 84°FDaisies are blooming like crazy! And in the wildflower bed there are indian blankets and indian paintbrushes.
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13 May 2012Marigold - Cempoalxochitl Transplanted and Seed Starting, Baby Plant Making garden
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I need to document these to get them out of the seed starting garden. I have transplanted them all around the garden. One plant at just about each end of the 4×6 beds…. several in the circle bed….Storms 29°C / 84°F -
11 May 2012Garlic - Shatung Purple Harvesting and Garlic garden
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Storms 24°C / 75°FThis was the first year harvesting this variety from bulbs I grew. I planted 25 cloves and harvested 22 heads. They are all very big. I haven’t weight them yet… they are still drying out.
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11 May 2012Garlic - Shilla Harvesting and Garlic garden
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Storms 24°C / 75°FThis is the second year harvesting from bulbs I grew for this variety. I planted 30 cloves and harvested 23 heads weighing in at 32.60 ounces. They were mostly good sized.
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04 May 2012Garlic - Red Janice Harvesting and Garlic garden
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Storms 24°C / 75°FThe garlic seems to be ready to harvest earlier this year. Last week they started turning brown and falling over. Thunderstorms were predicted and I was afraid they would rot in the ground. The previous two years, I harvested garlic in June. This year we had such a warm winter, I’m guessi...
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09 Apr 2012Edge of Forest garden , Orchard garden , Wildflower: Blue-eyed Grass Blooming, Wildflower: Wind-Flower ...
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Storms 28°C / 83°FI’m trying to keep a record of the wild flowers that show up in our yard. Spring is such a windy time for us that I have a very hard time getting decent photos… the flowers are in constant motion. These have been blooming for a month or so now. The Thimbleweeds cover our yard, they...
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07 Apr 2012Beans - Fava; Supersette Harvesting and South Bed #1 garden
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Storms 23°C / 73°FHarvested all the fava beans and the final tally is about 6 1/2 lbs. I originally started planting fava beans because a local blogging gardener bragged about how pretty hers were in the winter. She planted them in her flower beds and because they grew through the winter it perked up her beds vi...
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06 Apr 2012Pomegranate - Angel Red Blooming and Orchard garden
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Cloudy 27°C / 81°FNot only did my little Pomegranate bush live through the winter – it is blooming!!! (Wildflowers have been planted all around and the white one you see is Prairie or Plains Fleabane.)
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28 Mar 2012Cabbage: Red Acre Harvesting and Center Circle garden
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Cloudy 28°C / 82°FHarvested the last cabbage today. The last one and the only “red” cabbage. (I’m sorry…. but it looks PURPLE to me!!) This is the first red cabbage I’ve ever managed to grow. They usually grow like crazy, get huge and then instead of making a head they bolt. This...
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28 Mar 2012Amaryllis - Picotee Blooming and House Plants garden
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Cloudy 28°C / 82°FI’m kinda excited that my Amaryllis Picotee has decided to bloom again. I have not had much luck at multiple blooms from my bulbs since I moved to Dallas. In January, I started reworking all of them… moving them into new pots with new potting soil, trimming back the roots, giving th...
