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Member since: Sep 07 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 2 | Organic gardener
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19 May 2013Tomato 'Garden Peach' and Vegetable garden
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The plant I bought had two plants growing in the same pot. I initially planted out the larger plant and separated the smaller one to grow on a bit then plant out. Today I planted out the smaller plant. -
22 Apr 2013Japanese Maple 'Trompenburg' Repotted and Backyard garden
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Moved my ‘Tropenburg’ to a badly needed, much larger pot. It is now in a 10 gallon nursery pot where it will probably stay until I decided to plant it in the ground. I also did my best to get it straightened up, the poor tree has needed to be restaked for a while now. I moved it i... -
13 Apr 2013
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Finally planted the Encore Azaleas
Azalea 'Autumn Empress' Transplanted, Azalea 'Autumn Sangria' Transplanted, Azalea 'Autumn Debutante' Trans...With the help of my boyfriend, I finally got the Encore azaleas planted along the side fence, near what is now a loropetulum. Hope they do okay.Sunny -
01 Oct 2012Azalea 'Hinodegiri' Transplanted and Backyard garden
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Planted the azalea and a strap leaf mahonia in at attempt to make it more difficult for my dog to jump the fence. -
04 Aug 2011
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Harvesting- at least the dogs leave me the peppers and eggplants...
Eggplant 'Japanese Long Purple' Harvesting, Hot Pepper 'Serrano' Harvesting, Eggplant 'Fairy Tale' Harvesti...The dogs are still eating my tomato harvest. Almost all the ripe tomatoes we are getting are ones we picked green (or picked up off the ground green) and ripened in the kitchen window sill. I’ve got to figure out something different next year because this year is quite depressing. The pl...Storms 37°C / 99°F -
10 Jul 2011Eggplant 'Fairy Tale' Harvesting, Sweet Pepper 'Giant Marconi' Harvesting, Chili Pepper 'Jalapeno' Harvesti...
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Sunny 32°C / 90°FThe garden just doesn’t seem to be producing like some years, in part because the dogs keep eating the tomatoes. I do have lots of green tomatoes, so maybe there is some hope. I did a bunch of work in the yard today including cleaning out the long handled tool shed. I’m hoping to ge...
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04 Jul 2011
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Cinder block bed finished and planted
Melon 'Green Machine' , Bean 'Tenderbush' , Curly parsley 'Krausa' , Sweet Pepper 'California Wonder' , Cro...I had a bunch of cinder blocks lying around my yard and no idea what to do with them. Everyone said to use them to make a raised bed, so I moved them into place to form a raised bed along the back fence next to the burn pit. The area gets at least morning sun, so I hope it will be enough to gro...33°C / 91°F -
01 Jul 2011Basil 'Lime' (w) Harvesting, Hot Pepper 'Hot Banana' (w) Harvesting, and Tomato 'Husky Cherry Red' (w) Harv...
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The work plants were looking a touch worse for the wear when I went out to water them this afternoon. I’m not sure they got watered yesterday. This weekend, they will have to make it two days without water, as we are closed for 4th of July on Monday. I did do some harvesting, getting 3 to...33°C / 91°F -
27 Jun 2011Chili Pepper 'Jalapeno' Harvesting, Eggplant 'Japanese Long Purple' Harvesting, Eggplant 'Fairy Tale' Harve...
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Things are starting to ripen and we’ve made two meals from the garden so far. Last week we had the first Roasted Cherry Tomato pasta dish, with three colors of cherry tomatoes: red and yellow tumbling toms and Chocolate Cherry. The dogs have attacked my giant marconi peppers, so I had to ...33°C / 92°F -
19 Jun 2011Hydrangea 'Nightingale' #3 Potting Up, Basil 'Lime' , Japanese Maple 'Viridis' Repotted, Japanese Maple 'Sa...
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I did not have a particularly good week this past week. Work was very busy and left me exhausted. I got food poisioning on Wednesday night. On Friday I found out the guy I had been “seeing” told a mutual friend he didn’t want a relationship and was trying not to encourage me,...36°C / 96°F
