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25 Jun 2009Blooming and explosive growth Sugar Pumpkin Flowering and Vegetable gardenI swear they doubled in size over a three day weekend away from the garden. We got good rain while we were gone, and now lots of sun, so they’ve gotten enormous. One is starting to climb a rose bush (which can handle it, so I’ll let it), another started working on my tomato cages and ...Overcast 18°C / 65°F
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14 Jun 2009Party salad Sassy Salad Mix Harvesting and Vegetable gardenHarvested the last to take to a party. Ended up with 2 gallon bags full. Left a few of the rainbow chard sprouts in the ground, they’re just barely coming on now, and hopefully they’ll have time to get more hearty. Will probably plant another batch from seed in a couple weeks.15°C / 59°F
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11 Jun 2009Thinned - fritatta Lacinato Kale Harvesting and Vegetable gardenPlants are about 12-14 inches tall now. I thinned them out and used the thinnings in a fritatta with bacon and carrots. Probably one more thinning in a couple weeks before I just start letting them mature and harvesting the leaves only.15°C / 59°F
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09 Jun 2009Flowering for the first time Goat's Beard Flowering and Under the trees gardenOvercast 19°C / 66°F
Guess getting more light was the key. It’s about twice the size it’s ever been and has two very elegant flower spikes. Will post a photo soon, as soon as it’s really at its peak.
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20 May 2009Thinned Danvers Carrot Transplanted and Vegetable gardenThinned out a couple of the larger clumps and transplanted to some naked areas of the bed.17°C / 62°F
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15 May 2009Mulch! Backyard garden , Frontyard garden , The side yard garden , and Bees & Bugs gardenAfter last winter’s heavy snow, and losing a few plants to it, I decided it was well time to give all the beds a fat layer of mulch. And since we were taking the bamboo we’ve been thinning to the mulch place, I picked up a truck load of high-quality hemlock bark mulch while we were th...Overcast 21°C / 69°F
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13 May 2009Big salad for dinner Sassy Salad Mix Harvesting and Vegetable gardenPlanting needed some thinning, and we’d had some good rain so it was all nice and plump and juicy. Yum!Rainy 11°C / 52°F
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08 May 2009Planted out - batch 1 San Marzano Tomato Planting Out and Vegetable gardenPlanted out the first set of sprouts. Most in one of the new beds, but had some left over that I put in between the rows of onions. I know, I’m probably overcrowding. Batch 2 back in the window to get a little beefier before I figure out what to do with them. Probably give them away to frie...16°C / 60°F
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01 May 2009Screened frames for new beds Vegetable gardenOvercast 21°C / 69°F
Built two 10-inch high frames with removable lids for the new 3×3 raised beds. Used nylon bird netting mesh stapled to the frame to keep the pests out (cats, mostly). Will wrap them in row cover cloth in the early spring next year to turn them into cold frames.
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01 May 2009planting out batch #2 Nickel "Haricots Verts" and Vegetable gardenNeighbor’s cat decided to take a nap on batch 1 before we had a chance to get the screens up on the new cold frames. Killed about half of the first batch. Planted out batch 2 in place of the ones that didn’t make it.Overcast 21°C / 69°F
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