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Member since: Jun 09 | Last seen: Feb 13 | Years gardening: 1996 | Organic gardener
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26 Jul 2011Beans Lazy Housewife Harvesting, tomato: black plum Harvesting, Cucumber: National Pickling (NRA Bed N3) Ha...
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Snow 1°C / 34°FStill recovering from drought. Photo shows meager bean harvest, these lazy housewife from the early sowings are tough and stringy. The pickling cucumbers are uneven in growth. The “burpless” cucumber is so bitter it is inedible. The green peppers suffer from the same tasteless, thin w...
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24 Jul 2011
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Clearing spring beds for summer cover crops
eggplant: Turkish Orange RipeningSnow 1°C / 34°F
This year we are planting buckwheat as a quick cover crop between the spring and fall greens.
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23 Jul 2011
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Help me identify these insects?
4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden29°C / 85°F
Please bear with me while I appeal to our group knowledge base. I have misplaced my best organic pest and disease identification guide, a problem that has vexed me for nigh on two weeks now.
I found all sorts of interesting little fellows in the garden this week. Unless I was sure the insect was ...
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23 Jul 2011
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From drowning to drought to drowning again. Stress brings out the plant problems.
5 Butterfly and Bumblebee garden , Pepper: Marconi Giant Under Attack, cucumber: Bonnie burpless hybrid Und...Storms 29°C / 85°FWe had three months of near constant, inundating, cold and wet rain this spring. We then abruptly entered a two month drought, broken only by a couple of brief but violent storms that did not provide enough water. The drought culminated in a week-long heat wave that nearly took out more than a fe...
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22 Jul 2011
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Drought, disease and life goes on living
herb: black cohosh Dying, flower: zinnia mix Blooming, hops: willamette Under Attack, Scarlett Bee Balm Und...Cloudy 29°C / 85°F
Drought, disease and life goes on living. Look at this greedy, thirsty bee.
A wicked storm passed through last night, hammered the sunflowers pretty hard. The volunteer in the butterfly bed already stands nigh on 12 foot. It was toppled, but we stood her back up and staked her in hopes she’...
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22 Jul 2011
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Drought, disease and life goes on living
herb: black cohosh Dying, flower: zinnia mix Blooming, hops: willamette Under Attack, Scarlett Bee Balm Und...Cloudy 29°C / 85°F
Drought, disease and life goes on living. Look at this greedy, thirsty bee.
A wicked storm passed through last night, hammered the sunflowers pretty hard. The volunteer in the butterfly bed already stands nigh on 12 foot. It was toppled, but we stood her back up and staked her in hopes she’...
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22 Jul 2011
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Help identify this daylily variety (hemmeracalis fulva)
42 Annex garden and Daylily BloomingStorms 29°C / 85°FThis plant came with the house. The flowers are a deep red with bright yellow centers. Any ideas?
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20 Jul 20113 The Orchard garden , 4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden , Cherry: Montmorency Under Attack, and Cucumb...
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37°C / 99°FHeat index in the 100s here this week, and expected well into next week. I can go outside for a few minutes at a time, and avoid even that. I haven’t picked squash bugs or eggs since Saturday. Who knows if I even have squash plants left? I think I see them withering through the heat lines o...
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19 Jul 2011
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Best intentions and all that (or how not to keep up with my garden database)
4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden33°C / 92°FI sat here all night planning to update my folia milestones and journals from my photos and notes. I have four weeks worth of plant data to enter. Instead I started designing a new blog. Go figger. Photo: My baby, wondering when I will pay attention to him, much like my garden journals and my squ...
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18 Jul 2011tomato: roma Harvesting, 4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden , Beans: Lazy Housewife (SE 3 sisters bed) H...
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33°C / 92°FMid-summer harvest is starting to pick up. I finished harvesting the the last of the spring veg last week, except for the broccoli that I will let stand for side shoot production. My husband is in charge of preserving most of the food, or at least he is supposed to be. He got the collards and som...
