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Member since: May 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 3 | Organic gardener
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02 May 2013
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Mystery plant in my mystery bed
Mystery Bed 3 gardenMostly Cloudy 24°C / 75°FThis plant has been growing in my mystery bed at our new home. I asked my neighbor who help identify all the other plants and she thinks this may be a volunteer we want to pull. Anyone know what this is?
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28 Apr 2013
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Overcast 21°C / 70°FI’m exhausted but wanted to post a quick journal about the progress of our raised beds for this year’s garden. They are all finally right-side-up but nowhere near level in their current location in our yard. Next steps are to level them all, add the hardware cloth, PVC for the row c...
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24 Mar 2013
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Starting seeds for our new gardens!
Soil block gardenMostly Cloudy 3°C / 37°FFinally pulled together all my materials today and put some seeds in soil blocks. All the seed is older seed so I’m not certain of its viability but time will tell. Once the weather breaks I will be out in the yard putting in my raised beds. My preliminary plan can be found here and is st...
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21 Oct 2012Asparagus garden , Strawberry Fields garden , and Third Vegetable garden
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Mostly Cloudy 15°C / 59°FLast month my husband and I closed on a home nearby and moved. I’ve been working to close this garden up while unpacking and settling into our new home. The summer was not like our previous summers. We were unsettled for much of the summer while we waited for our closing and then while pa...
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15 Apr 2012Tulips - Oxford (Red) Darwin Hybrid Blooming, Blue Moon Tulips Blooming, and Small Front Flower garden
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Rainy 21°C / 70°FI’m loving the red tulips more than I expected but am a little concerned that so few have grown from the 50 bulbs I planted last fall. Hopefully the weather will even out a little now and everything will thrive. 1. Blue Moon tulips 2. Red Oxford Darwin tulips 3. Lamb’s Ear has com...
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25 Mar 2012Small Front Flower garden , Third Vegetable garden , Onion Yellow of Parma Sprouting, Aztec Sun , Snapdrago...
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Last weekend I started some tomatoes, peppers, onions, various herbs, broccoli and brussels sprouts. Some of those are already making progress which makes me happy. This week the balance of my flower seeds arrived so I spent a little time starting some of those that aren’t direct sow. Pai...Rainy 16°C / 61°F -
06 Nov 2011
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Putting the garden to bed Part 1
Glory of Snow , Allium , Tulips - Oxford (Red) Darwin Hybrid , Music Garlic , Small Front Flower garden , T...Sunny 11°C / 52°F
It was another beautiful day here so I spent the majority of it outside once it warmed up. When Ginger and I got up at 5, it was a chilly 19 degrees for our walk. By 10:30 it was up to nearly 50 with a clear, blue sky and a light breeze.
I started by raking the leaves in the front yard to add t...
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05 Sep 2011Second vegetable garden , Purple Podded Pole Beans Harvesting, Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans Harvesting, Hunga...
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Storms 21°C / 70°F
New pics attached for each harvest today in what I’m affectionately calling “The Colander Series”.
It was a rainy Labor Day here so I was inside most of the day. I had a lot of canning to do, all these pics to take for Harvest Day :-) and my husband was in classes all day so mo...
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22 Aug 2011Second vegetable garden , Brockton Horticultural Beans Fruiting, Stupice Tomato Harvesting, Big Month Tomat...
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I’m trying again this year to see if I can manage to ferment some cucumbers into some lovely dill pickles. Last year I ended up with a moldy, spoiled mess so I’m hoping the later start and cooler temps will help produce a better product. After the salsa fiasco, my husband was concer...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F -
21 Aug 2011Tomato 'Pineapple' Harvesting, Stupice Tomato Harvesting, Amish Paste Tomato Harvesting, German Red Strawbe...
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One of the things I’ve wanted to do since I put my garden in last year was to can some salsa for my husband and son to enjoy. I’m not a fan – too many onions – but I know they like it. On Sunday, I decided it was time to tackle the salsa after I put up three quarts of to...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
