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05 Nov 2009Veggies 2 4 Baby Spinach Bolting, Chinese Cabbage Bolting, Chinese Cabbage 'Ching Chiang' Bolting, Chinese Cabbage 'Toy...I have been popping into the veggie garden in the mornings to pick snacks for our packed lunches. The peas are going mad, as are the green beans. The first batch of lettuce is just about finished, thought I did harvest a very nice head last night for dinner. The Baby spinach and the chinese cabba...Sunny 23°C / 73°F
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27 Oct 2009Wind 1 5We had a weather warning out yesterday for gale-force winds. Well, I can’t vouch for their speed, but they wreaked havoc in my garden. My veggie cage-netting thing is no more. I got flattened. And some of the connectors snapped. So I took it down last night. It was a bit like trying to tie ...Overcast 19°C / 66°F
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26 Oct 2009Sprouts & harvests 3 1 Kitchen Herbs garden , Cinnamon Basil Sprouting, Sweet Genovase Basil Sprouting, Coriander October Sproutin...My basils and corianders in my kitchen have all sprouted :) Any I harvested some stuff from the garden for dinner on Friday night. Some beetroot’s, spring onions, peas, & beans. :) Oh, and some carrots that I sowed in a pot and then more or less forgot about for months and months and mo...12°C / 54°F
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20 Oct 2009Cricket Club garden 3 Cricket Club garden , Red Salvia Flowering, and White Petunias FloweringI still haven’t got any photos-but I will get around to it I promise!Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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20 Oct 2009Catch up. 3 2 Vegetable Patch garden , Wild Rocket Bolting, Beetroots , Marigolds Flowering, Peas Harvesting, Green Bean ...He…I have been bad. I haven’t wanted to brave the calf high grass that exists in our garden to go out and check the plants. But the land lord mowed yesterday (yay!) so my cornflakes and I went walkies this morning and we found that the plants have continued to grow despite the neglect...Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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19 Oct 2009A few chores done Dining Room Starter garden , Basil Moved, Basil - Thai Moved, White Corriander Moved, Purple Granadilla Mov...But no weeding. It’s reached a point where I’m afraid, very afraid to go into the garden!! My SO declared that my seed starting table was needed by him as a desk. So I was forced to plant out all the stuff that needed planting out, and move some stuff that needed a new home. So in poi...
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14 Oct 2009Some flower photos from the holiday 7 814°C / 57°F
I recently went up to KwaZulu Natal to see my parents. I took a few snaps of some of the gorgeous flowers that they get up there.
Photo 1: Gorgeous Azaleas in every shade you can think of.
Photo 2: Close up of the amazing orange ones.
Photos 3: Cottage at ‘Granny Mouse Country House’:...
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05 Oct 2009Sprouting 2 3 Vegetable Patch garden and Rainbow Inca Sweetcorn SproutingWe’ve had a glorious 40mm of rain in the last 8 days. My sweetcorn has sprouted as have some more of my runner beans and the peas. Yay! The nasturtiums in the veggie garden are getting ready to flower.
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30 Sep 2009Photo Updates 7 4 Vegetable Patch garden , Lettuce , Red Lettuce , Lettuce 2 , Red Lettuce 2 , Wild Rocket , Wild Rocket 2 , ...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
Because I have done nothing in my garden worth writing about. No joke.
1 Aren’t my lettuces pretty?
2 And the Ching-Chang and Touy choi from ceae?
3. And the carrots
4 And the beets and onions
5 and the gemsquash in the buckets which are TAKING OVER!
And in some of the photos you can see th...
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25 Sep 2009I actually DID something in my garden 6 2 Vegetable Patch garden , Dining Room Starter garden , Tomatoes Transplanted, Bite Size Tomatos Transplanted...It was a public holiday yesterday, so the SO and I FINALLY transplanted the tomato seedlings. YIPEE!! They’re now in the large 20L buckets. I also noticed, while we were in the garden anyway, that the watermelons and the pumpkins have all sprouted! :) Alsong with one bean and a pea in the s...Cloudy 15°C / 59°F
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