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25 Jan 20102010 Gardening Plans 1 1For 2010, I decided to team up with my friend/coworker Susan (who also likes to garden) and try planting a larger variety of herbs and vegetables in the small raised plot in my backyard. We looked through the Park’s Seed catalog and made a list of the stuff we want to try growing this year:...Cloudy 12°C / 53°F
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22 Dec 2009Updates and Reflections 2 2 Cherry Tomato Dying Down, Garden Beans Dying, Mizuna Mustard (direct-sown) Dying Down, Onion: Evergreen Lon...Oh boy, it’s been a while since I’ve updated my journals. The biggest lesson I’ve learned thus far is to start on time. My four tomato plants were thriving during late fall, but now that it reaches down to 40 degrees F, two of them have started to shrivel. Ironically, the plant ...11°C / 51°F
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10 Oct 2009Good News and Bad News 1 Garden Beans Harvesting, Pot Marigold Blooming, Cosmos Flowers Blooming, and Mizuna Mustard (direct-sown) H...I guess I will start with the bad news, so I can get it out of the way… It’s been somewhat windy in San Jose as of late, and on occasion I’d find that my bean bushes would be bend over 90 degrees. They’ve all survived this before, since the main stalk was strong, and IR...Sunny 13°C / 55°F
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01 Oct 2009Delicious! 1 2 Garden Beans Harvesting, Cherry Tomato Blooming, and Cosmos Flowers BuddingTonight, I feasted on my first harvest of green beans. I actually harvested them about a week ago, and even then they remained fresh after keeping them in my fridge. The difference between store-bought and freshly grown is truly amazing – I am so humbled too. I think the fact that I grew th...Sunny 16°C / 61°F
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18 Sep 2009Weekly Doings 1 German Chamomile (direct-sown) Sprouting, Yarrow Potting Up, Alpine Strawberries Potting Up, Golden Guardia...Making a journal entry so I can keep track of dates! Chamomile: I see 5 tiny seedlings have sprouted over the past few days. They are so tiny!! Yarrow: transplanted them all into larger pots – they are now sitting outside. Alpine Strawberry: currently residing in a large pot with 2 yarrow p...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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14 Sep 2009Quick Updates 5 1 Cherry Tomato Budding, Garden Beans Blooming, Golden Guardian Marigold (direct-sown) Sprouting, Golden Guar...I’ve got a ton of things to do this week, but I wanted to keep a relatively accurate journal/log so I’m making a quick update XD Tomatoes: 2 of my 3 larger plants have started flowering! How exciting!!! I can taste them now… Beans: Also flowering, and some of the flowers are fal...17°C / 63°F
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12 Sep 2009New Sproutings 2 Achillea Summer Berries Yarrow (direct-sown) Sprouting, Golden Guardian Marigold (direct-sown) Sprouting, G...I was actually out of town on Labor Day weekend, but on Monday (9/7) I found that some of my new plantings had sprouted! My two Golden Guardian Marigolds had sprouted on Monday. Yesterday (9/11), all 3 of my Achillea Summer Berries sprouted. Unfortunately, my Chamomile seedling abruptly died R...Overcast 28°C / 82°F
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07 Sep 2009Late Summer Goodness 1 1 Mizuna Mustard (direct-sown) Sprouting, Garden Beans Budding, and Golden Guardian Marigold (direct-sown) Sp...I am happy to report that both of my Mizuna mustard seedlings have sprouted! Hopefully they will do better since they were direct-sown outside. All of my bean plants are now flowering. I thought the bushes would get larger, but I guess this is the biggest they get? I’m going to try the pole...24°C / 75°F
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04 Sep 2009General Updates + Notes 2 2 Garden Beans Potting Up, Cherry Tomato Potting Up, Alpine Strawberries Showing True Leaves, Yarrow Showing ...It’s been pretty quiet for the past few weeks for me – my garden has been slowly growing and just soaking in the immense sunshine we’ve been getting in San Jose for the past week o_o It actually hit 104 degrees at one point – unfortunately that was too hot, and one of my p...Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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25 Aug 2009Woo Hoo Chamomile! 1 1 German Chamomile (direct-sown) Sprouting and Pot Marigold Hardening OffToday I discovered that one of my direct-sown Chamomile seeds sprouted! It is sharing a planter with my onions/chives. How exciting! I also found whiteflies on one of my tomato plants. Hopefully this isn’t an omen of worse things to come. I killed whatever I could find, and I didn’t s...Sunny 15°C / 59°F
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