harro_der's journal
Member since: May 09 | Last seen: Jul 11 | Years gardening: 1 | Organic gardener
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05 Jul 2011Dahlia 'Duet' Sprouting, Polianthes Sprouting, Globe Arborvitae Showing True Leaves, Astilbe 'Key Largo' Sp...
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Well, I haven’t been on folia. In part because we lacked the money to do anything fun. In other part because so many of my plants did not thrive like I’d hoped! Sadly, my baby the japanese maple died after a very odd spring and early summer. We got warm here in February and both the j...31°C / 87°F -
20 Sep 2010
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This journal, or lack there of, reflects exactly what happened with the garden this year. I started out great and just did not follow through. Story of my life? Actually, this gardening season (Fall 10-Summer 11) is starting out with a bang, renting a rototiller and prepping the backyard soil in...Cloudy 16°C / 60°F -
24 Jun 2010White Roses Flowering, Backyard Large Flower garden , Dahlia ' Spectacle' Budding, and Hosta 'Blue Ivory' F...
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28°C / 82°FThere are buds on one of the dahlias, flowers on the tomato, one of the hostas is flowering and other plants are slowly coming up but most importantly the roses are flowering!
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05 Jun 2010Butterfly garden
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20°C / 68°FA nasty cold and then rain, rain and more rain kept me out of the garden for a while. I kept the future butterfly garden mostly weeded, though some interesting weeds have popped up that I’m letting grow… for now! I’d like to get them id’d asap so I know if I want to keep ...
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29 Mar 2010Pieris Japonica Flowering, Dianthus Breaking Dormancy, Kalanchoe Dying, Mums Breaking Dormancy, Lavender B...
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Overcast 11°C / 51°FNone of my seedlings survived the dampening disease, I have elected to direct sow everything except tomatoes, which I’m going to give another chance on indoor sowing. The pots have been pulled out, it looks like the mums did well.. I can’t tell if the kalaoche (pretty sure it died, I...
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31 Jan 2010Backyard garden and Butterfly garden
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The beginning of our digging began last weekend and continued this weekend. However, with approximately 725 square feet to dig out in the second bed it might take us a while! The constriction is less that it’s a lot of digging/knocking mud off the sod and more trash can space! I suggeste...8°C / 47°F -
23 Jan 2010
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Warming up a little too early?
Christmas Cactus Flowering, Pieris Japonica Treating, Unknown Bush Breaking Dormancy, Unknown Variety Acer ...It’s been a long, cold winter since I last updated! With a few weeks in the 0-5 degree range, we are very happy we’re sitting at high 40’s in the days now! Hopefully we’ll have an early Spring this year, but who knows. It rained last weekend, which meant we didn’t f...Cloudy 6°C / 43°F -
01 Nov 2009Dahlia garden , Dahlias Dormant, Front Door garden , Polianthes Dormant, Backyard garden , Acer Palmatum S...
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Winter Set In!Cloudy 7°C / 44°F -
14 Oct 2009Dahlia garden , Dahlias Dying Down, Kalanchoe Dying Down, Dianthus Dying Down, Lavender Dormant, and Mums...
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And just like that, gardening season is over. It officially froze and all my flowers went from happy to splat in 1 night flat. Bah! Tomorrow everybody comes in the garage for storage and I will deal with the Dahlias. I had beautiful flowers on Sunday and was going to photograph them today.. Al...Cloudy 6°C / 43°F -
11 Sep 2009Dahlia garden , Dahlias Treating, and Chives Treating
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Dahlias were treated for powdery mildew with an organic fungicide. We’ll see how it goes. Something also showed up on the soil in the chives, sprayed it and we’ll see if it goes away as well.Sunny 21°C / 69°F
