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21 May 2009ouch 1 1 Vegetable garden , Frontyard garden , and Backyard gardenCloudy 31°C / 88°F
Worked for 4hrs in yard today – just a touch on the hot side - enough to really tire one out.
Pulled up the rest of the sod in the side yard and planted the last of the vinca. Hopefully it will take — and may our mowing days be finally over!
Beyond the surprisingly backbreaking labor...
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16 May 20095.17.08 - meh Vegetable garden and Frontyard garden14°C / 58°F
Since the mister and I elected to spend yesterday hanging out with ‘The Wire’ – I had planned on weeding today, but the spitty, wet weather prevented any progress.
So I took pictures of my weeds – er – plants, instead. Also managed to throw some more coriander and a...
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27 Apr 2009It Begins Vegetable garden , Frontyard garden , and Backyard gardenDid a season cleanup two weekends before last – then did the first real yard work for Spring 09 last Saturday (4/25): weeded, sowed seeds – carrots, radishes, cilantro, beans, leftover onion seeds. Also started a bunch of seeds indoors for permanent container garden: sage, thyme, ore...Overcast 31°C / 88°F
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13 Jun 2008Saturday Maintenance Vegetable gardenOvercast 24°C / 75°F
Nothing spectacular to support other than the fact things are growing, looking good and healthy and hopefully will keep doing so through the next month … probably will be ready to eat the first batch of lettuce this week. Added two new rows of lettuce seed this week in hopes that we’...
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13 Jun 2008Saturday Maintenance Frontyard gardenOvercast 24°C / 75°F
The daisies are going nuts and the summer daffodils bloomed. All the groundcover’s spreading as I had wished and there are plenty of strawberries suprisingly emerging from the huge thatch growing on the side of the house. Hooray. Even the bare-root hostas I’ve planted over the past...
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13 Jun 2008Saturday Maintenance Container gardenOvercast 24°C / 75°F
All container friends are doing great; As predicted, the angel trumpet is quickly recovering from the drastic leaf-drop of two weeks back. All begonias are full steam ahead. I think ..? … that coleus is on its way … but can’t be sure yet.
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13 Jun 2008Saturday Maintenance Backyard gardenOvercast 24°C / 75°F
Weekly weed and mow; first time using the Alaska Fish Fertilizer (trying to keep it organic while keeping the plants happy — dunno about the plants but the FLIES are elated). All is growing grandly. As mentioned yesterday, my 3 year old dutchman’s pipe vine BLOOMED! Wowow! Flowers...
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10 Jun 2008Mo' Lettuce Broccoli, Cilantro, Dirt Sown and Vegetable gardenDirect sown two add’l rows of lettuce {mixed blend} in this box this AM. Hopefully something delicious will happen.Sunny 22°C / 72°F
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04 Jun 2008Hello my baby, hello begonia, hello my hanging plant ... 2 3 Frontyard gardenPeeked into the hanging baskets this morning and lo – there are begonia babies! Planted bulbs in baskets about a month back and have been relatively good about keeping them moist … but, not what I would call tender loving care. In any case — I may just get my bargain hanging beg...Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
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04 Jun 2008Ze Poppies! Zey are Blooming, non? 1 Backyard garden2 days ago, the carrot-orange poppies opened their … gigantic! blooms – and yesterday, three icy pink poppies followed suit. Oh hooray hooray. The orange gal is big and lush and lovely – and am totally shocked it established so well, considering I bought it for 4$ at the cash-...Rainy 14°C / 57°F
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