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14 Aug 2009Harvesting: 1884 & Ceylon 3 Tomato 'Ceylon' Harvesting, Tomato '1884' Harvesting, and Summer Squash 'Lemon' Setting Fruit24°C / 75°F
Both picked from the community garden. 1884 could have maybe used another day on the vnie, but I wasn’t about to let the bugs get it. Celon is the cutest little thing, all tiny and pleated (seeds, Kelly?) I love them both … taste tests soon!
Good news … the tomato eating ̵...
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13 Aug 2009Harvesting: 'Beverlodge' 4 4 Tomato 'Beaverlodge Slicer' Harvesting, Tomato 'Snow White' Harvesting, Tomato 'Gardener's Delight' Harves...Ate it before I took a picture! I was just too hungry!!! This is a pretty nice tomato. Nice thin skins and good balanced flavour. This is going to sound a bit odd, but I was picking up a bit of smoke flavour …. I’ve been busy prepping for the wine & tomato tasting next weekend s...26°C / 79°F
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11 Aug 2009The Amazing Money Tree! 8 Money TreeOvercast 20°C / 68°F
Look it grew more money over night … but this time it’s putting out Canadian Tire cash, lol!
To bad I can’t save seeds and propegate, eh?
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11 Aug 2009Harvesting 'Reisetomate' 6 3 Tomato 'Reisetomate' HarvestingOvercast 20°C / 68°F
It was red … I reached out to touch it to see if was ready and it fell off the vine! Guess that means it’s ready!!!
Without a doubt it’s a cool looking tomato! This is the first one, and it’s didn’t grow as big as it should have, but it’s still really neat.
The...
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07 Aug 2009Stan's Garden 6 2Overcast 18°C / 64°F
A couple weeks ago we were out geocaching and stopped in at my SIL’s place. We had a great visit with her & Stan. While we were there, they took us out to see their garden. I was so impressed … AND so bummed that I forgot to bring my camera! I tried hard to get Stan to sign up he...
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06 Aug 2009Heartbreaking Destruction 1 16Overcast 20°C / 68°F
I stopped by the community garden yesterday to pick up a few tomatoes and what I found, makes me want to cry. An animal, a large one, I suspect a raccoon (could have been a dog, maybe a bear ;) has done some serious damage to my garden. A part of the fence was trampled making it look like somet...
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04 Aug 2009Our Newest Houseplant 11 3 Money Tree23°C / 73°F
The kids gave this to us yesterday for our 7th anniversary. They even took money from their piggy banks, put it into little baggies and tied it to the tree. I think we netted about $4.50, lol! I have such great kids :)
Now I just need to figure out where to put and how to take care of it.
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04 Aug 2009Our Flower-Eatin' Bunny 4 4 Kitchen gardenOvercast 22°C / 72°F
We have bunny living underneath our deck. He frequently hops around the garden when we’re eating dinner outside in the gazebo. He’s cute and the kids like him and so far, he just eats the clover and some flowers …. which I can live with …but I’m watching him
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30 Jul 2009Purple 'Purple Peacock' 3 Bean (Pole) 'Purple Peacock'19°C / 66°F
The first ‘Purple Peacock’ pole bean has turned fully purple!
This is such a pretty vine with it’s tiny purple flowers and dark purple beans.
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30 Jul 2009The Great Tomato Update 14 17 Tomato 'Zapotec Pleated' , Tomato 'Thai Pink Egg' , Tomato 'Sylvan Gaume' Ripening, Tomato 'Sweet Pea Curra...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
Yesterday I took pictures of every variety of tomato I have growing in my gardens. I chose the largest/ripest one on each vine for comparison.
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