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11 Nov 2009Tomato 'Fantome Du Laos' 1 1So I’ve had quite a few people ask me about this tomato over the course...Overcast 4°C / 39°F
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07 Nov 2009Tomato Tasting: 'Moskvich'‘Moskvich’ is kind of like your quiet friend that you can always ...Overcast 6°C / 43°F
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05 Nov 2009Another Tomato Tasting: 'Tlacolula Ribbed' 1You can read the full growth notes and tasting here: http://populuxe.ca/blog/...7°C / 45°F
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31 Oct 2009Tomato Tasting: 'Dr. Wyche's Yellow' 5Another tomato tasting finally up! This time, it’s Dr. Wyche’s Y...Overcast 6°C / 43°F
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20 Oct 2009Tomato Tasting: 'Tsygan' 2 Tomato 'Tsygan'Next up in the series of tomato tastings/growth notes/other sundry notes is u...Sunny 8°C / 46°F
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18 Oct 2009Tomato Tasting: 'German Cascade' 3 Tomato 'German Cascade'So the first of a series of tomato tastings/growth notes is up on my website....Overcast 10°C / 50°F
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11 Oct 2009Transplanted Echinacea 'White Swan' Transplanted and Side gardenOvercast 4°C / 39°F
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04 Oct 2009The End of the Season 6 7 Tomato 'Orange Strawberry' Harvesting, Pepper, Hot 'Guajillo' Transplanted, Pepper, Hot 'Chili de Arbol' Tr...Well, I don’t know about you guys, but for all intents and purposes, th...Overcast 7°C / 45°F
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23 Sep 2009Another Tomato Harvest 9 3 Tomato 'Yellow Ruffled' Harvesting, Tomato 'German Cascade' Harvesting, Tomato 'Azoychka' Harvesting, Tomat...And of course all the tomato plants are really starting to ripen now that the...Cloudy 20°C / 68°F
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17 Sep 2009Harvest of the Tomatoes 3 Tomato 'Yellow Ruffled' Harvesting, Tomato 'Yellow Pear' (#1) Harvesting, Tomato 'Tsygan' Harvesting, Tomat...So the past few weeks has been tomato central over here. Not as much as I th...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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23 Aug 2009A week in review... 8 16 Lemon Mint Flowering, Scotch Mint Flowering, Pepper, Hot 'Chili de Arbol' Fruiting, Squash 'Delicata' Setti...So with the new job, coupled with the fact that it’s been an EXTRA craz...Sunny 24°C / 75°F
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19 Aug 2009First Stupice Harvest 4 2 Tomato 'Stupice' HarvestingYay! They go straight into a fresh pasta dish. No cooking required. Also, I&...Sunny 30°C / 86°F
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10 Aug 2009Another backdated entry... 2 2 Echinacea 'Green With Envy' Blooming, Pumpkin 'Small Sugar' Setting Fruit, Toad Lily Flowering, Tomato 'Sil...This one not quite as backdated as the one I just did. Just to keep up with ...
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07 Aug 2009Even more updates (and not just tomatoes this time!) 4 Tomato 'Reisetomate' Fruiting, Melon 'Edens Gem' Flowering, Watermelon 'Blacktail Mountain' Setting Fruit, ...And because I love point form so much, here we go: All the tomatoes now hav...Sunny 26°C / 79°F
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03 Aug 2009The First Tomato 3 3 Tomato 'Silvery Fir Tree' E HarvestingAnd after what seems like a million years waiting, I finally have my first ri...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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02 Aug 2009Catching Up (and a bit about the seed bank) 5 4 Tomato 'Moskvich' Fruiting, Tomato 'Orange Strawberry' Fruiting, Tomato 'Black Sea Man' C Fruiting, Tomato ...I’m still kind of in shock and awe as to how late everything feels this...Hazy 25°C / 77°F
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02 Aug 2009Wildfire Smoke Finally Hits 2 2I was wondering when we’d finally see some wildfire smoke. There’...Hazy 21°C / 70°F
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30 Jul 2009Long Past Updates Cilantro (Volunteer) Bolting, Tomato 'Rhodes Family Heirloom' C Fruiting, Spinach 'Long Standing Bloomsdale...The past 3 weeks I have been so busy I haven’t had much of a chance to ...
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26 Jul 2009Fruiting and Flowering A-Go-Go 2 2 Lavender 'Munstead' Blooming, Corn 'Country Sweet Gentleman , Beans (Pole) 'Musica' , Anise Hyssop , Rudbec...Lots of stuff doing it’s thing. I think my ‘Rouge Vif D’Eta...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
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25 Jul 2009The Seed Bank 2 2I just wanted to update my fellow Folians with the current workings of my see...Storms 24°C / 75°F
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23 Jul 2009A few more Updates 3 5 Chocolate Mint , Lemon Balm , Lemon Mint , Basil 'Red Rubin' , Mexican Marigold , Pole Beans 'Mr. Tung's' ,...Mostly photo updates at this time, and a few notes: Photo #1: Pumpkin ‘...23°C / 73°F
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22 Jul 2009A few updates, mostly the tomatoes 4 12 Tomato 'Bramki' , Tomato 'Cherokee Purple' Fruiting, Tomato 'Yellow Pear' (#1) Fruiting, Echinacea 'Green W...Everything is growing like gangbusters now, even my little ‘Bramki̵...Sunny 27°C / 81°F
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20 Jul 2009Black Sea Man 1 Tomato 'Black Sea Man' C FruitingThis tomato seems to be growing taller then I remember it ever growing before.26°C / 79°F
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16 Jul 2009Quick update 1 Pumpkin 'Cheyenne Bush' Setting Fruit, Tomato 'Tsygan' Fruiting, Tomato 'Purple Prince' Fruiting, Tomato 'M...The tomatoes starting to fruit now are: Tsygan Purple Prince Moskvich Cheroke...Sunny 24°C / 75°F
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14 Jul 2009And here we go... 4 Bronze Fennel , Tomato 'Zomu' , Oregano Harvesting, Thyme Harvesting, Cilantro (Volunteer) Flowering, Bee B...The garden is starting to really take off now, only about 3 weeks late, but t...Sunny 24°C / 75°F
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09 Jul 2009Tomatoes Update 4 2 Tomato 'Green Zebra' (G1) Fruiting, Tomato 'German Cascade' Fruiting, Tomato 'Stupice' Fruiting, and Tomato...Next ones to fruit after Silvery Fir Tree (on which I’m waiting on bait...Cloudy 19°C / 66°F
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06 Jul 2009I'm such a show off 3 5 Borage Blooming, Rudbeckia 'Irish Eyes' Blooming, Edelweiss Blooming, and Tomato 'Orange Strawberry'The whole point of this entry is just to show off a bit of what’s bloom...Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
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02 Jul 2009Some Record Keeping and Updates 3 6 1. First Vegetable Garden garden , 2. Second Vegetable Garden garden , Carrot 'Scarlet Nantes' Thinning Out...A few days ago I noticed some aphids on my dahlias and a the tomatoes in the ...19°C / 66°F
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30 Jun 2009Cabbage Worms, and Today in The Garden 3 Broccoli 'Green Sprouting Calabrese' Treating, Cauliflower 'Purple of Sicily' Treating, Cucumber 'Boothby's...Today I discovered that it wasn’t the slugs doing damage to my brassica...Sunny 26°C / 79°F
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28 Jun 2009Small Sugar Pumpkin and NOT Delicata Squash 5 Pumpkin 'Small Sugar' Transplanted, Backyard Outdoor Container garden , Cucumber 'Cool Breeze' Fruiting, To...So I had original bought this little squash at the farmer’s market abou...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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27 Jun 2009Photo Updates 5 2 Pole Beans 'Mr. Tung's' , Spinach 'Long Standing Bloomsdale' , Borage , Cucumber 'Lemon' , Cauliflower 'Pur...Just wanted to post a few new photos of the plants! 1st photo: Rudbeckia R...Sunny 19°C / 66°F
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26 Jun 2009Updates 1 Pole Beans 'Mr. Tung's' Sprouting, Cucumber 'Lemon' Sprouting, Tatume - Second Sowing - #1 Sprouting, and Z...I had this WHOLE lovely long entry detailing some lessons learnt already this...Sunny 19°C / 66°F
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24 Jun 2009A few updates 1 Japanese Wisteria Planting Out, Potato 'Caribe' , Potato 'Russian Blue' , and Squash 'Lemon' (Second Sowing...The Japanese Wisteria I purchased last year FINALLY has a home. This thing h...Sunny 16°C / 61°F
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20 Jun 2009Out There, Doing My Thing 4 3 Tomato 'Tlacolula Ribbed' A Transplanted, Elderberry Flowering, Mock Orange Blooming, Rose - Pink Blooming,...So I figured today, because it wasn’t storming and hailing all day, tha...Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
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16 Jun 2009Sprouting Mammoth Dill Sprouting and 2. Second Vegetable Garden garden18°C / 64°F
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15 Jun 2009A few tasks to keep track of - treating & weeding 3 3 1. First Vegetable Garden garden , 2. Second Vegetable Garden garden , 3. Front Yard (Third Vegetable) gard...I figure it might be helpful next year if I can see when I did things like ap...Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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14 Jun 2009Transplanting 1 Backyard Outdoor Container garden , Around the Yard garden , Bugleweed 'Chocolate Chip' Transplanted, and E...19°C / 66°F
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13 Jun 2009Seriously, leaving garbage at our house? 1 4 Pole Beans 'Mr. Tung's' Sown, Parsnip 'Harris Model' Sown, and Squash 'Lemon' (Second Sowing) SownJust a few little updates: I’ve decided to resow some lemon squash, bea...Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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09 Jun 2009Alpine Strawberry 2 1 Strawberry Transplanted, Backyard Outdoor Container garden , and Strawberry Potting UpSo I had originally found two little volunteer wild strawberries in my side g...Rainy 12°C / 54°F
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08 Jun 2009Unsuccessful Tomato Surgery 8 Bachelor's Buttons Sprouting, Tomato 'Eva Purple Ball' Dying, Bush Beans 'Tri-Colour Blend' , Squash 'Lemon...Well, after my valiant effort to keep ‘Eva Purple Ball’ alive aft...Rainy 11°C / 52°F
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