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09 Jun 2009Finished planting! (Sort of.) 1 1 Farm garden , melons , and winter squashSunny 23°C / 73°F
The whole 85×50 foot area is planted! (But we’re not done yet – there is overflow space we will be using.) Today’s additions were winter squash and melons.
13 hills of butternut squash (a strain of Waltham that has become our own heirloom)
7 hills of Early Sweet Sugar Pie (...
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03 Jun 2009strawberries are growing well 1 mom's backyard garden and strawberries Showing True Leaves21°C / 70°F
Just look at them! Green leaves on every one.
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31 May 2009planted everything except melons and squash! Farm gardenSunny 20°C / 68°F
All of last week’s plantings looked happy!
Today I planted the bush beans (pole beans had been planted last week).
I planted a packet of spinach seeds, most of a packet of mustard seeds, and almost two packets of collard green seeds.
I planted a packet of tomatillo seeds (went for a one-per...
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26 May 2009How we grow sweet potatoes 4 3 sweet potatoes and Farm gardenSunny 18°C / 65°F
I started this as a reply to FarmetteReport but realized it’s probably useful for others too – so here goes:
I can tell you about how our sweet potatoes did last year, which was our first time trying them. They did great! We got some advice from the Cornell Coop Extension – you ...
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25 May 2009Planted the pole beans and finished setting out the sweet potatoes 1 4 Farm garden , pole beans , and sweet peppersCloudy 19°C / 67°F
Along the bean trellis, we planted about 2/3 Kentucky Wonder, to be harvested as green beans, and the rest cannellini beans.
All of our seed beans are from our harvest last year. We got a lot of beans, and somehow ended up eating none of them. I think we were afraid of not having enough for seeds...
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23 May 2009Planted tomatoes! I think we're half done 1 2 Farm garden , heirloom tomatoes, from seedlings Planting Out, sweet peppers Planting Out, eggplant Planting...Partly Sunny 23°C / 74°F
You can tell it’s a big planting day! We stopped at Lowe’s for a new rake and everybody was going nuts in the garden department, buying flowers out the wazoo. Then on the way up to the farm we stopped at Brinckle’s, which turned out to have a good deal on tomatoes (got 20 big he...
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17 May 2009Rows mapped out; also planted a few things. 2 Farm gardenSpent hours at the farm today but somehow only got a few things done: we laid out the remaining rows we finished planting parsnips and carrots we planted some onion seeds (an experiment) we planted tomato seeds and covered them with cloches (another experiment) we planted 6 hot pepper seedl...Overcast 13°C / 56°F
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10 May 2009Planted potatoes; working on carrots & onions 1 Farm gardenSunny 6°C / 43°F
Planting was the focus for this weekend. Last weekend we got the sweet potato mounds dug (by “we” I mean Chris) and now we have the potatoes planted and mounded. We are working on getting the onions and carrots planted.
Onions were all planted as of 5/11, still working on the carrots....
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25 Apr 2009Plowed the field Farm gardenSunny 6°C / 43°F
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17 Aug 2008jackpot! 3 ithaca community gardenSunny 27°C / 81°F
When I went down to the garden yesterday, I knew I’d be able to harvest most of the pole beans, and I might be able to take home a tomato or two. We were going there mainly to weed.
Well, I got my bean harvest all right. Most of the beans (Kentucky Wonder pole beans) were mature and ready t...
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