fiberfool's Journal
Overview
Timeline
Journal
Plantings
Swap List
Wish ListShow All | Journal Entries | Questions
Loading journals...-
12 Aug 2008New Approach to Tomato Supports 2 2 North Square 1 gardenSunny 14°C / 57°F
After last year’s tomatoes growing so much that they broke even the large cages and/or having to tie the cages to the fence to actually hold the plant upright we went with a different approach for supporting the tomatoes this year – tee pees. Nothing terribly new or exciting about the...
-
11 Aug 2008What Is This? Tomato 'Yellow Pear' and North Square 3 gardenSunny 22°C / 72°F
While tying up tomato vines this weekend I noticed these things in the soil beneath the yellow pear plant (in its own raised bed). So far I haven’t seen signs of it elsewhere. What is it?
I searched through my copy of _The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Cont...
-
09 Aug 2008Supporting Local Growers... South Patio Container gardenWe have a plethora of Farmer’s Markets to choose from in Fort Collins. In fact, I almost feel as though we have too many, as not a single one has all the things we like to get at the Farmer’s Market. The largest (and therefore the one with the most variety) is the Saturday morning one...Sunny 29°C / 84°F
-
06 Aug 2008Having a Rough Go This Year 1 4After a stellar first year of gardening this year I am wondering if it was beginner’s luck. Starting plants from scratch really didn’t put us ahead and it feels like it has us way behind. The eggplants only now have some buds about to flower. The peppers just started setting fruit. Th...Sunny 28°C / 82°F
-
05 Jun 2008Exploding Spearmint! 2 Spearmint 1 and South Patio Container gardenRainy 8°C / 46°F
I thought for a bit there we might loose the mints in the containers because we put them out so early. I did have to do some pruning, but now that we’ve had some heat and some precipitation both spearmint plants and growing like gangbusters! We’ve even had our first mojitos of the sea...
-
05 Jun 2008Babies In the Garden 3 5Cloudy 8°C / 46°F
In April, while I was in Minnesota I got a call from DH asking if it was okay for a robin to be building her nest in our plum tree. When I got home I wasn’t expecting the nest to be located so accessibly to us. But It has been fun watching the nest be built and shaped and packed down. Now I...
-
06 Apr 2008Thwarted By the Dog! 1 SW Raised Bed 2 gardenGrrr! I went out to look at the beds this morning to just to see light levels and such and discovered Emma had been digging in the greens bed when she was outside yesterday evening sometime. She had gotten down far enough to rip up some of the newspaper even. Given that greens need to only be 1/8...Sunny 8°C / 46°F
-
06 Apr 2008Preparing and Planting the Bed 2 SW Raised Bed 2 gardenToday DH helped me mix in 1.25 cubic ft of mushroom compost and 1.25 cubic feet of super humus (a peat-heavy mix that replaced “Mountain Peat”). We also laid down a double layer of newspaper about 6" below the surface. Until the ornamental plums leave out (those are slow trees &#...Overcast 11°C / 52°F
-
05 Apr 2008Prepping and Planting 4 SW Raised Bed 1 gardenOvercast 11°C / 52°F
DH also helped me prep this bed. It also have 1.25 cubic ft each of mushroom compost and super humus added to it. We were pleasantly surprised to find some friendly earth worms. Following planting and watering one even came to the surface to say “hi.”
This bed has full sun until the o...
-
25 Mar 2008Whew! 1Well, I just put in an hour and a half out in the yard raking up the leaves and presents from the dog. So far it is just in a big pile. Though there were two areas thick with the plum leaves that don’t fall until January or February most years that were free of doggie presents so I spread a...Overcast 13°C / 55°F
Buzz buzz buzz!
Listen in on the Grapevine