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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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27 Jul 2009My 5 Foot Tall Lettuce ... and other random notes! 11 9 Bee Balm , Bean (Pole) 'Purple Peacock' , Bean (Runner) 'Sadie's Horse' Setting Fruit, Cucumber 'English Te...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
This is my five foot tall oak leaf lettuce … it’s growing inside the oblesk. I planted some lettuce seed outside earlier in the spring, and I guess some of the seed must have washed, blow, what-have-you inside. From what I can tell, it’s just one plant and it has now reached th...
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27 Jul 2009Mini Harvest 3 Tomato 'Black Cherry' (Pruned) Harvesting, Tomato 'Snow White' Harvesting, Tomato 'Cerise Orange' Harvesti...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
Picked a few snacks while working in the garden this morning.
Black cherry
Yummy tomato flavour (still my fav)
Snow White
I wouldn’t really call these white … they’re yellow! But very good. Sweet and almost fruity taste.
Cerise
Very very small and very sweet. Taste is similar to...
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25 Jul 2009Small tastes ...Just a few quick notes from a late night walk through the garden Black Cherry tomato … 3 more, so yummy Cerise tomato .. 1, very small fruit, very similar in taste to Sungold, but OP Fortex bean … 1 flat pods, nice bean flavour.Overcast 19°C / 66°F
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23 Jul 2009Today's Harvest 5 1 Carrot 'Dragon' Harvesting, Carrot 'Parmex' Harvesting, Onion 'North Holland Blood Red' Harvesting, Scallio...Overcast 20°C / 68°F
We picked bunch of odds and ends for dinner from the garden today …
Photos
1. The whole haul
2.&3. Found this little bird in the garden, she stayed the whole time I was out there which made me wonder if she’s got a nest somewhere in the backyard?
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22 Jul 2009Come On Butterflies 2 Phlox 'Nicky' Blooming and Butterfly BushRainy 20°C / 68°F
Lots of my butterfly & hummingbird-attracting flowers are starting to open … here’s hoping it works! So far I mostly have cabbage butterflies :(
Photo: Fatal Attraction Coneflower … guess I still haven’t added this one to my plant list?
Or the (Photo 2) red Verbena, ei...
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22 Jul 2009I Love Summer! 3 8 Bean (Bush) 'Delinel' Harvesting, Bean (Pole) 'Purple Peacock' Setting Fruit, Tomato 'Cerise Orange' Ripeni...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
The garden is in full swing now …
Soon, I’ll have more beans than we can eat.
More and more tomatoes are ripening to shades of red, yellow, orange, black, purple, pink and WHITE every day. I wonder how white my snow white tomatoes will get? I also worry that I won’t get my green...
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21 Jul 2009Back in the Garden! 4 3 Bean (Bush) 'Delinel' Harvesting, Tomato 'Black Cherry' (Pruned) Harvesting, Tomato 'Silver Fir Tree' Sett...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
We’ve been so busy for the past three days, I’ve barely set foot in the garden aside from dashing out to pick some beans and the one ripe, first black cherry so I was shocked at how much everything has grown and all the updates I have to add!
I can’t wait to get over to the comm...
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15 Jul 2009Blushing 4 4 Tomato 'Black Cherry' (Pruned) RipeningCloudy 23°C / 73°F
The picture says it all … tomato #2 is starting to turn red, um, black … well you know ;)
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