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Member since: Apr 09 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 40 | Organic gardener
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05 Sep 2012insane raspberries Harvesting, darlow's enigma Blooming, fireweed Blooming, aster Blooming, corn Fruiting...
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Sunny 22°C / 72°FToday is actually a very big day—the first day of high school for my son. The perfect cool and mostly sunny summer weather continues, with no rain since July 22. The next week is supposed to be on the warm side. We are approaching a record for consecutive rainless days, and gardening is mos...
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31 Aug 2012
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Sunny 21°C / 70°FSleeping Lady is a wonderful place of nature, beauty, health, peace and relaxation on the outskirts of Leavenworth, Washington. I dont quite know what to call it—somehow the conventional categories like “resort” or “hotel” dont quite capture what this place is like. ...
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27 Aug 2012
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-18°C / 0°FNo snow in Seattle yet. We are still having what we call summer weather, such as it is. But I just got back late Sunday from a 5 day backpack trip in the Pasayten Wilderness, on the east side of the North Cascades, where we camped at 7000’. We had frosty mornings, and light snow Thursday ...
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18 Aug 2012lyda rose Blooming
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Cloudy 21°C / 70°F“Lyda Rose” has bloomed for the first time, 11 months after being planted as an own root band. The scent is wonderful—like cloves. Also—still no blackspot—very healthy foliage.
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15 Aug 2012ornamental oregano Blooming, eggplant fairytale Fruiting, tomatillo purple 2011 Ripening, conehead kim's ...
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Sunny 20°C / 68°FWoke up early this morning, on a day where i am not scheduled for my early morning stair climb, and am wondering what to do with the windfall of an hour before waking up the kids. Delighted to remember an excuse to wander around the garden looking for photogenic blooms. Perfect, dry summer weath...
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05 Aug 2012
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Harvest for tonights salad on a hot day, and tomato production so far
Tomato Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Harvesting, mammoth sugar pea Harvesting, purple peacock broccoli Harvest...Sunny 33°C / 92°FI know you folians from the south and midwest wont be impressed with 92 F but here in Seattle no one has air conditioning. Our natural air conditioning (the marine cloud layer) is supposed to kick in tommorrow so I’m not complaining too much about the infernal heat. Pretty fun to go shoppi...
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03 Aug 2012new beginnings garden , Thugs gone wild garden , new beginnings garden , pampered darlings garden , spruced...
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Sunny 25°C / 77°FSome views of the garden on a friday morning, on what promises to be a splendid day. I was discussing our weather with a visitor from Ohio, and bemoaning our “50 minute summer” (number of minutes so far above 80 F) and he laughed and said "I dont think we have had that many below...
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24 Jul 2012parsely Blooming
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Cloudy 23°C / 73°FThese beetles (blister beetles?) are all over the flowering parsely.
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15 Jul 2012
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summer, interrupted, bloom day
ghislaine de feligonde rose Blooming, I never promised you a you know what garden , old secrets garden , s...Storms 19°C / 66°FAfter our cold wet June, early July was spendid—temperature like a caress, sunny days which managed to be pleasantly warm and deliciously cool at the same time. However summer can be pretty brief around here. Thunderstorms came in on Friday, breaking a 10 day rainless streak, followed by a...
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05 Jul 2012
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July Harvest Day and tomato-pea-carrot companion report.
Tomato 'Stupice' Ripening, spruced up garden , tomatoes, sungold Harvesting, Tarragon Harvesting, basil 't...Sunny 22°C / 72°FIts been an interesting week, much better than the previous, with the Affordable Care Act being ruled constitutional, a spectacular garlic harvest, a mountain climb (Mt Colchuck) on Monday to celebrate my husband’s birthday, the Higgs boson discovery, and the 4th of July. The weather fi...
