karenbee's journal
Member since: Jan 09 | Last seen: Apr 13 | Years gardening: 4 | Organic gardener
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21 Mar 2012nursery garden
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All the tomato sprouts I planted are now über-leggy seedlings. I give in: next year I’m setting up an official grow light. It is probably not helping that today is overcast like whoa. Planted everything else that had sprouted yesterday, and replanted the seed varieties that had succumbed to...Storms 26°C / 79°F -
19 Mar 2012vegetable garden
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Storms 27°C / 81°F
I don’t have time today to do all the nitty-gritty planting stuff on here, but I wanted to briefly note what we’ve done so far. A couple of weekends ago we got some compost/soil conditioner/planting soil from Lowe’s and spent a morning tilling the garden, placing some vinyl boar...
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25 Jan 2012
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It’s about time for us to start going through seeds and planning! The new hardiness map (more info here) didn’t bring any changes down here. It’s been a really strange winter, though, with snow one day and 60˚F temps the next. Not a lot of “winter weather” — I ...Cloudy 9°C / 49°F -
27 Jun 2011vegetable garden
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28°C / 82°FRABBITS! DEER! PROBABLY ALSO A MOLE OR SOMETHING ELSE BURROW-Y! They love our garden! We’re all popular and stuff! Originally I planted lettuce, spinach, radishes, peas. The radishes either never grew or got picked off very quickly. Never saw the spinach, either. The lettuce and peas grew a...
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06 Jun 2011vegetable garden
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Sunny 29°C / 85°FI haven’t been keeping track very well this year — but then I had a baby two weeks ago, which probably explains THAT. Alllll of my seedlings are kaput. A handful of the tomato sprouts that I replanted lasted another month or so, then keeled over. Some of them teased me by growing tiny...
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04 Apr 2011vegetable garden and nursery garden
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Sunny 20°C / 68°FBiggest awesomeness: found a tiller within the budget we’d planned! It’s a nice sturdy one, too, had no problem with the rocky clay. Mike tilled a patch for the veggie garden Saturday; originally we planned to have it in the back yard, but we ended up sticking it in the front yard ins...
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01 Apr 2011nursery garden
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Cloudy 10°C / 50°FI managed to kill some seedlings. It was only a matter of time. Lesson learned: don’t stick slow-starters in the same tray as fast sprouters. I think I lost most of my marigolds; luckily I’m pretty sure those will do well if I direct-sow the next batch. I thinned out the other tray, t...
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23 Mar 2011
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reason #23 why I will never be a plant identificationologist
porchside gardenCloudy 9°C / 48°FI got clearer pictures of the flowers that were blooming porchside, hoping that would help me ID them, but holy crap I am bad at identification. The closest I got was “eeeeh maybe it’s tuberose?” Hmm, maybe I should make this my first “mark as a question” entry ̵...
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19 Mar 2011Basil, Genovese Sprouting, Brussels Sprouts, Catskill Sprouting, Swiss Chard, Bright Lights Sprouting, Toma...
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I’m not sure how else to mark seedlings as sprouting other than writing a new journal entry; I’ll look it up Monday when I’m not on dial-up, but for now this will work. EVERYTHING in the tomatoes+ tray is sprouting. Unfortunately the cabbage sprouts are almost too tall for the p...Sunny 12°C / 54°F -
18 Mar 2011Marigold, Petite Mixed Sprouting, Cabbage, Super Red 80 Sprouting, Tomato, Brandywine (OG) Sprouting, nurse...
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Some of the seeds I planted last weekend are already sprouting — a few of them are at 100% (meaning all nine cells have green bits) but most things are just starting to peek through. I haven’t killed them yet! While I’m in here, I’ve got our rough garden plan worked out. I...Sunny 12°C / 53°F
