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21 Nov 2009It's amazing what happens when you ignore your garden 1 Square Foot Bed #1 garden , Eggplant "Black Beauty" Flowering, Bell Pepper Flowering, Onion 'Parade' , Onio...I have been a bad gardener. A bad bad gardener. Or perhaps a laissez-faire gardener, which gives me a lot less guilt about it. :) But regardless, I have ignored my garden. When I ventured back out into the backyard last week, after the weeks of scorching hot “fall” and the pouring ...Rainy 12°C / 54°F
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16 Nov 2009Removed Lamb's Quarter/ Magenta Spreen Dying and Square Foot Bed #2 gardenThis turned into a huge beautiful pink stemmed bush that was seriously huge (taller than me), and not invasive (but I don’t know what the seeds would have done, or will do). I had planned on moving it to a more decorative, less food-oriented garden, but there was no help on the day, so I j...Cloudy 11°C / 52°F
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16 Nov 2009Moved 1 Vinca Potting Up, Square Foot Bed #2 garden , and Containers gardenclearing out my bed to start over for winterCloudy 11°C / 52°F
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16 Jul 2009Horntail season/ Drought . . . 2 Cherry Tomatoes34°C / 93°F
Well, it’s back. Horntail season. My prolific cherry tomato has two of them (currently) munching away. Last year, I picked them off vigorously, flinging or dispatching as I found them. Then I did a little more reading, and decided next time I would give them a chance. So I am letting t...
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23 Jun 2009fruiting 1 Canteloupe, 'li'l Sweet' Fruiting and Square Foot Bed #2 garden2 little baby melons, yay!Cloudy 28°C / 82°F
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23 Jun 2009explosion! 2 Tomato "Yellow Pear" Fruiting and Square Foot Bed #1 gardenafter watching one lone little tomato ripen slowly on this plant, and harvesting it, and tasting the sweetness of a yummy homegrown and ripened on the vine heirloom tomato, I was thrilled to see this plant explode into baby tomatoes! There’s at least half a dozen in it right now.Cloudy 28°C / 82°F
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23 Jun 2009one teeny tiny mater Tomato "Pink Brandywine" Fruiting and Square Foot Bed #1 gardenI hope this plant ends up like my yellow pear, carefully watching over one lone tomato for weeks, harvesting it, then an explosion of new tomatoes!Cloudy 28°C / 82°F
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22 Jun 2009Harvested! 1 Cucumber "Armenian Snake" Harvesting and Square Foot Bed #1 gardenCloudy 28°C / 82°F
So even though this is not really a cucumber, (according to SSE, it’s a melon), it smells a LOT like one. You can tell the difference with the seeds, though. Even though the on I picked was slightly immature, the seeds were big and hard and plentiful, like in a melon. Not something you w...
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21 Jun 2009Father's Day 2 Potatoes, "Yukon Gold" Harvesting, Potatoes, "Yukon Gold" Harvesting, and Rosemary HarvestingCloudy 28°C / 82°F
For Father’s Day, I wanted to be able to put one dish on the table, and say “I grew that. All of it.” I got close. I made roasted potatoes with garlic and rosemary. The only bad thing was I needed to supplement my potatoes, because they were only baby potatoes. My potato pl...
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15 Jun 2009Pesto Basil, Purple Harvesting and Basil, Sweet HarvestingSo, my basils have been getting very boltish, wanting to flower and spread their seeds everywhere. I am tired of pinching off buds, so it is time for pesto. Using my mom’s recipe, I made a big batch of pesto. I just wish it had gotten put away at the end of dinner, so I could still have ...Cloudy 28°C / 82°F
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