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07 Jul 2009Fabulous Smells & Pretty Flowers! 4 2 Passion Flower Vine 'Belotti' Blooming, Hydrangea Blooming, Rose Tree Blooming, Clematis - Will Goodwin Blo...Overcast 15°C / 59°F
I spent the whole day outside in the garden yesterday … putzing around & leisurely crossing things off the do list. A bit of mulch to add and I’m done, done, DONE! Well, at home anyway … nobody mention ELAM please, lol!
We even had lunch outside, while listening to the wind...
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02 Jul 2009Harvest: Peas 5 1 Snow Pea 'Ho lan dow' HarvestingOvercast 17°C / 63°F
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02 Jul 2009PINK? 5 14 Borage FloweringCloudy 16°C / 61°F
I have pink, PINK! borage? On the same plant as the blue flowers …. what’s up with that?
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01 Jul 2009HAPPY CANADA DAY! 4 4Rainy 16°C / 61°F
Happy Canada Day Everyone!
Not much of a gardening or firework day here so far … all rainy & wet.
Here’s hoping it clears up…. SOON!
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30 Jun 2009Kitchen Garden Update 6 4 Kitchen garden , Tomato 'Stupice' , Tomato 'Black Cherry' (Pruned) , Tomato 'Cerise Orange' Setting Fruit,...Overcast 18°C / 64°F
Well, the start of one anyway! It started raining and I didn’t want my camera or ipaq to get wet (high tech gardening, here) so I’ve paused for a rain delay.
Almost all the tomatoes are setting fruit and many of the peppers have flowers.
More later ….
Photo:
I love watching th...
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30 Jun 2009Drying Strawberries: A Succes! 5 5 Kitchen gardenOvercast 15°C / 59°F
My daughter loves dried berries in her cereal. Many days she would eat just the berries and leave the grain if I let her, so I decided to break out the dehydrator and try drying my own. I vaguely recall trying this once before and it not working out well for some reason or another, but this time...
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26 Jun 2009Harvest: Borage Flowers 12 19 Borage Harvesting25°C / 77°F
Borage is flowering profusely now, so I started harvesting flowers for ice cubes.
They’re so pretty!
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26 Jun 2009Impulse Buy! 6 5 Delphinium 'Magic Fountains Sky Blue' Flowering and Delphinium 'Magic Fountains Sky Blue' FloweringSunny 25°C / 77°F
My little guy has a birthday party this weekend and insisted on getting a trackster for a gift for his friend, which meant we had to drive all the way across town to one of the few stores that sells the darn things. Really not something I felt like doing yesterday, but I’m so glad we did!
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24 Jun 2009Harvest: Salad 3 Spinach 'Bloomsdale Savoy' Harvesting, Carrot 'Dragon' Harvesting, Carrot 'Minicor' Harvesting, Snow Pea 'H...Spinach was bolting, so I harvest it along with a couple small carrots, radishes, peas and violas for salad.Overcast 28°C / 82°F
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24 Jun 2009Strawberry Equivalents 2I just finished hulling the 5th flat of berries for jam. Two more to go … time for a break! I think I should record some of the measures for next year! 1 quart = 40-50 berries = ~4 cups = ~500 grams hulled 1000 grams + 2-3 cups of sugar = 3-4 jarsSunny 30°C / 86°F
Buzz buzz buzz!
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