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22 Dec 2011Nerine bowdenii Blooming
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Snow -1°C / 30°FWell, it’s the 23rd of December and it’s snowing. Looks like we’re in for a white Christmas after all. Yeah!!! One lone nerine is blooming in the sunroom. Awfully late this year and there’s just the one but it’s a bloom. The Christmas cacti are pretty much past i...
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14 Dec 2011
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I thought it was supposed to be December
Primrose, Fairy Blooming, Citrus, Key Lime #1 Flowering, and poppy anemones BloomingRainy 6°C / 43°FWell, here we are in the middle of December and I just earned my Bloom Day badge. With what you might very well ask. Would it be an amaryllis? After all, it is the season for such Christmassy type plants. Nope. Only three of my amaryllis are showing any signs of blooming this month and they&...
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10 Dec 2011Citrus, Seville Orange #2 , Citrus, Seville Orange #1 , Prunus, nectarine , and Prunus, peach
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Cloudy -1°C / 30°F
So the raccoons ate all my peaches and nectarines this year. And there was such a good crop, too. Not only did they eat the fruit but they completely destroyed the two trees in the process. We’ve got some pretty big (and heavy) raccoons hanging out in our neighbourhood and when they go a...
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30 Nov 2011
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it's the first of December... new badge time!
Holly HarvestingOvercast 6°C / 43°FOkay, technically this does not fit the definition of ‘harvesting’ as the berries of holly are not edible however, I figure that if I owned a holly farm, I would be out there harvesting holly for sale around this time of year. The spruce wreath was purchased but the holly and pine con...
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20 Nov 2011kitchen garden and under the sunroom... yes, under... garden
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Cloudy 15°C / 59°FThe thirteen pots of bulbs were tucked away in the crawlspace under the sunroom… three daffodils, four tulips & six dutch iris. Pruned the potted hybrid teas so they’re now ready to go into the garage once I tidy it up a bit. Found that I could take the top layer off the one real...
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19 Nov 2011
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time to let them get back to growing
Lettuce HarvestingCloudy 15°C / 59°FOne more harvest of lettuce to top veggie burgers earns the Salad Days Badge. Yeah!!! Now, I think I need to stop harvesting these little guys and let them get on with growing… so that there will be more harvesting in their future.
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18 Nov 2011
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another harvest of lettuce last night
Lettuce HarvestingSunny -1°C / 30°F -
17 Nov 2011Lettuce Harvesting
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15 Nov 2011
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the tried and true let me down
Nerine bowdenii , Anthurium, pink , Orchid, Phalaenopsis, purple, miniature , Cactus, Christmas, white , Ca...Cloudy 15°C / 59°FOkay, I was really counting on at least one of my Nerine bowdenii to be in bloom for the November Bloom Day. Grown from seed, they have bloomed EVERY November since they were large enough to bloom. EVERY November, without fail. That is until this year. Not a sign of a blooming scape anywhere ...
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10 Nov 2011mother's garden and lily cutting garden
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Rainy 17°C / 63°FYup, it’s raining here in Nova Scotia… AGAIN! 50mm plus, today. Another, 50mm plus. Crazy! And speaking of crazy, at 9am, it was 17C! Did no one tell Mother Nature that it’s November and that this is Canada? Actually, the air is beautiful. It’s moist and mild with...
