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Member since: Mar 09 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 2 | Organic gardener
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05 Jul 2009
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Zucchini 'Fordhook': True leaves
Zucchini 'Fordhook' 2: Sowing Showing True Leaves18°C / 64°F -
01 Jul 2009
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Spanish Spice Peppers looking good!
23°C / 73°FWith the cool rainy growing season we’re having it’s surprising anything is growing. Despite it all these Spanish Spice peppers continue to plug along. This pepper is currently 4 inches long. I’ve read they harvest at around 8 inches. Photo: July 1, 2009
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30 Jun 2009
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26°C / 79°FA walk through the gardens after the storm passed revealed a number of delphinium stems broken by the wind & rain. The stems were removed & brought indoors to enjoy. In order to fit the stems into vases these blossoms were removed and used to create little ‘bouquets’ of their ...
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28 Jun 2009Zucchini 'One Ball' Setting Fruit and Zucchini 'Fordhook' 2: Sowing Sprouting
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22°C / 72°FPhoto 1:The zucchini ‘One Ball’ is developing nice little, round yellow zucchini. Photo 2: There are 3 plants sharing the hill. Their growth has been steady but slow due to the cool weather and now the gray rainy week we’re having. If the weather was more favorable I might have...
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28 Jun 2009
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Pea 'Sugar Sprint': Harvesting
Peas: Sugar Sprint Harvesting22°C / 72°FThe wait has been worth it. Crispy, crunchy, juicy & fresh off the vine these sweet little sugar snap peas are sure to be an annual choice for my garden. Of course that means planting a larger crop next time around. Garden pea flavour that takes me back to Baba’s garden as a kid. Deli...
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26 Jun 2009Radish 'Zlata' Setting Fruit
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21°C / 70°FThis variety of radish is starting to form edible roots. They seem to be sporadic in development and on the small size. Perhaps they need a bit longer yet. But the few I’ve pulled & eaten have been crunchy with a good spicy bite. As always … I wish I had planted more even though ...
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26 Jun 2009
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22°C / 72°FPoor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes. Abram L. Urban Photo 1: You know you must be doing something right when Robin Redbreast starts using the row covers in your lettuce patch as trampolines & hammocks. Photo 2: "Hear, hear! " cried Bluejay. “I’ve found...
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24 Jun 2009
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Zucchini 'One Ball': Flowering & setting fruit
Zucchini 'One Ball' Flowering, Zucchini 'One Ball' Setting Fruit, and Zucchini 'Fordhook' 2: SowingThese zucchini plants are doing very well. They seem to have established and are now taking off. Displaying numerous buds & flowers with tiny, bright yellow balls(zucchini) developing. I was debating whether to plant another variety of zucchini and decided today to go ahead and direct sow som...23°C / 73°F -
22 Jun 2009Arugula 'Cultivated' Budding, Potager garden , Arugula 'Cultivated' Harvesting, and Spinach 'Long Standing ...
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Seems the window of opportunity for this crop of arugula is…well….open & closed! The plants transplanted well to the potager and held fairly small until this last bout of ran ended. POW! Growth spurt & flower stalks all within a day. With no experience growing arugula I’...23°C / 73°F -
20 Jun 2009Coneflower 'Alba' , Beard tongue 'Husker's Red' , Loosestrife 'Beaujolais' , Musk Mallow 'Alba' , and cenol...
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21°C / 70°F‘Summer Skies’ on a rainy day! Photo: June 20, 2009
