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flashalee

flashalee's journal

Member since: Jan 08 | Last seen: Apr 13 | Years gardening: 4 | Organic gardener

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  • 14 Jan 2013
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    Planning

    This year I am starting fresh. I threw out all of my pots and soil from the previous years, and I will be scrubbing the patio clean in a few weeks. I have had an issue with diseases and I think our winters here just don’t get cold enough to kill anything in the soil. Also in the war against...
    Overcast 22°C / 72°F
  • 01 May 2011
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    Apparently helo was needed.

    I noticed that my cherry tomato was doing much better than the other tomatoes. The cherry was the only one in new soil, so my soil must have needed some fertilization. I purchased some organic fertilizer and tried one application. Boyo what a difference! The other lagging tomatoes started growing...
    Overcast 26°C / 79°F
  • 25 Feb 2011
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    Slow peppers

    Sweet pepper 'California wonder 300 tmr' and Container garden
    As I went to check on my resown peppers, I noticed my lagging behind peppers are sloooowly poking up. Phew! I am on track still!
    22°C / 72°F
  • 24 Feb 2011
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    Silly peppers

    Sweet pepper 'California wonder 300 tmr' Resowing and Container garden
    So far only one of the four peat pellets of sweet peppers have germinated. I place two to three seeds in each pellet to hopefully ensure that I at least have one germination in each pellet. This is to cut down on wasted pellets, or so I thought. I will give the slackers a few more days before I s...
    Overcast 19°C / 66°F
  • 13 Feb 2011
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    A better garden this year

    Bean 'Gold Mine' , Bean 'Kentucky wonder' , and Bean 'Kentucky wonder'
    Already I am off to a good start. I have cleaned and prepped all of the containers, I cleaned up the raised bed, and was able to transplant 9 baby ‘daughter’ plants that ran to the far corners of the bed. I planted some more bunching onion seeds, so hopefully I will have nice green on...
    Sunny 15°C / 59°F
  • 28 Jan 2008
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    Sown

  • 28 Jan 2008
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    Sown

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