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Member since: Sep 09 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 3 | Organic gardener
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15 May 2013critters garden
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Clear 22°C / 72°FSpotted the very small nest under the eave this morning. The three wasps made their nest look ridiculously undersized. I hope they do a good job clearing the place of munching insects now. I hope they have good manners. Summer is just around the corner- the nest could get a lot bigger. 5/16: Af...
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14 May 2013Pepper, Sweet Chinese Giant Sprouting, Tomato 'Black Cherry' Setting Fruit, and Bean, yardlong pole Setting...
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Clear 18°C / 64°FA glimpse of fruit setting on the Yardlong beans! The sneaky devils didn’t even look as though they had flowered. Meanwhile the black cherry tomato that appeared recently is growing daily, and I spotted a couple pinhead size fruits on the Hawaiian red currant. The chinese giant pepper is ...
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09 May 2013Tomato 'Black Cherry' Setting Fruit and Four Barrel Fisherator garden
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Overcast 16°C / 61°FNow that the weather is warmer and the juvenile fish have been transferred upstream to live with the adults, a new generation has appeared practically overnight. This is possible since the female hold their eggs in their mouths and release them only after they have hatched. The hatchlings have g...
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08 May 2013Tomato 'Azoychka' Flowering, Tomato 'Pruden's Purple' Flowering, Tomato 'Marianna's Peace' Growing, Tomato ...
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Mostly Cloudy 17°C / 63°FNearly every one of my tomato varieties brought forth flowers this week. I took pictures of the flowers to try and identify the differences between cultivars. I did not notice any doubled petal counts as I have in the past, which surprised me. I had some flowers a couple years ago with as many...
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08 May 2013Aquaponic Test garden
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The small waterfall pump I have been using for the hydroponics bed has let me down. But the medium is absorbent enough that the plants are unharmed. All I had to do to operate the system manually was to drain off the reservoir and dump the water in the bed by hand, letting the reservoir catch t...Mostly Cloudy 17°C / 63°F -
04 May 2013HB Community Garden Plot garden
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Partly Cloudy 16°C / 61°FStill sore today from Thursday’s efforts, especially moving dirt. Sometimes working in this community garden is like when we played as kids on the spinning platform. A bunch of random kids get on, and one or two stand off and start it spinning. Everyone else holds on. Then the kids spinn...
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25 Apr 2013Bean, yardlong pole Growing, Lettuce, Heirloom Cutting Mix , Pepper, Sweet Chinese Giant , Squash, Black be...
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Partly Cloudy 17°C / 63°FEarth- Planted seeds in starter trays for the community garden: Cucumber, Straightneck squash, crookineck squash, zuccini, bell peppers, lettuce, and spinach. Air- the Yardlong plus polebeans just touched the last pole in their trellis Water- Watercress is already showing leaves and floating to t...
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23 Apr 2013
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Watercress Sprouting after 2 days
watercress Sprouting and Aquaponic Test gardenClear 21°C / 70°FContrary to my expectations, the watercress sprouted right away, as shown on day 3 (two days after sowing)
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21 Apr 2013
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Mostly Cloudy 17°C / 63°FPotted up nine tomatoes in 3-gallon buckets, one for my sister (Pink Grapefruit) and 8 for the community garden, because it doesn’t look as though they will be able to get them in the ground for a couple more weeks. Strong sunshine brought the garden temp up to 100 on Sunday even with the v...
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15 Apr 2013Beans, Bush "Contender" Harvesting, Tomato 'Marianna's Peace' Transplanted, Tomato 'Pruden's Purple' Transp...
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Overcast 14°C / 57°FWell, finally the contender green beans have finished flowering, and I took this as a signal to harvest them, cut them down, and plant out the tomatoes that I first sowed on Feb 2nd. With high hopes then, I planted each tomato on a birthday cake arrangement of nutrients and amendments in a minimu...
