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10 Sep 2009harvest 1 Tomato 'Black Plum' Harvesting and Vegetable garden1 kg total of fruits. The plant was very obliging, and held ripe fruit for a ...23°C / 73°F
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03 Sep 2009Tasting 1 Tomato 'Marianna's Peace' Harvesting and Vegetable gardenI was dubious about this one, because it is incredibly prone to cracking. Lik...
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30 Aug 2009First melon 2 Melon 'Charentais' HarvestingFirst melon ripe. It smelled so strong. It sat in the kitchen for a day, and ...Sunny 18°C / 65°F
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14 Aug 2009First tomatoes Tomato 'Besser' Harvesting, Tomato 'San Marzano' Harvesting, Tomato 'Lemon Drop' Harvesting, Tomato 'Marian...I ended up giving these to my mom since we were going out of town.Sunny 18°C / 65°F
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12 Aug 2009a strawberry! Alpine Strawberry 'Ruegen' Harvestingvery small. There were a couple that might have been ripe earlier, but shrive...27°C / 81°F
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09 Aug 2009More things out 1 Eryngium Planting Out, Bee Balm Planting Out, and Agastache Planting Outthe mints are temporary. I don’t know when I’ll have beds ready f...27°C / 81°F
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08 Aug 2009beans for dinner 3 Yard long beans Harvesting and Scarlet Runner Beans (Botanical Interests) HarvestingThere were finally enough of these to put together a meal. It’s gotten ...27°C / 80°F
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04 Aug 2009garden cleanup Vegetable garden , Arugula Dying, and Spinach Dyingarugula and spinach harvested for seeds. Lettuce straight to the compost.21°C / 69°F
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04 Aug 2009harvest continues Broccoli 'de cicco' Harvesting, Vegetable garden , and Broccoli 'de cicco' Harvesting22°C / 72°F
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03 Aug 2009First tomato of the season Tomato 'Besser' Harvesting and Vegetable gardenAnd it tasted like a tomato. Large for a cherry type, it was a good mouthful....21°C / 69°F
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02 Aug 2009half out Grecian Foxglove Planting Out and Seed starting trays gardenThese have been hardening for a week, and I planted half today north of the s...21°C / 69°F
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01 Aug 2009more dahlias Dahlia 'Barbarossa' (bright red) Flowering, Vegetable garden , and Dahlia 'uncle harry' (pink and white) Fl...21°C / 69°F
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27 Jul 2009columbines out 1 Columbine 'Ruby Port' Planting Out, Seed starting trays garden , Alpine Columbune Planting Out, and Columbi...on the west side of the north door. Now the whole front of the house is a rea...21°C / 69°F
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21 Jul 2009We are now safe from vampires 5 1 Garlic - Chesnok Red Harvesting, Garlic - Georgia crystal Harvesting, Garlic - German White Harvesting, Ga...Pulled the garlic today. It didn’t really die back in the way I’d...Sunny 24°C / 75°F
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16 Jul 2009into summer Mache Harvesting, Broccoli 'de cicco' Harvesting, lettuce 'amish deer tongue' , lettuce 'kagraner summer' ,...lilies are on their last blooms. Lettuce, long since bolted, is now Done R...29°C / 84°F
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16 Jul 2009into summer Mache Harvesting, Broccoli 'de cicco' Harvesting, lettuce 'amish deer tongue' , lettuce 'kagraner summer' ,...lilies are on their last blooms. Lettuce, long since bolted, is now Done R...29°C / 84°F
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16 Jul 2009into summer Mache Harvesting, Broccoli 'de cicco' Harvesting, lettuce 'amish deer tongue' , lettuce 'kagraner summer' ,...lilies are on their last blooms. Lettuce, long since bolted, is now Done R...29°C / 84°F
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16 Jul 2009into summer Mache Harvesting, Broccoli 'de cicco' Harvesting, lettuce 'amish deer tongue' , lettuce 'kagraner summer' ,...lilies are on their last blooms. Lettuce, long since bolted, is now Done R...29°C / 84°F
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13 Jul 2009dark blooms Dahlia 'Arabian Night' (dark red) Bloomingthese are smaller than I thought they might be, but very, very dark.29°C / 84°F
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09 Jul 2009over the weekend 1 Oriental Poppy Mix Sprouting, Tall lilies Flowering, Broccoli 'de cicco' Harvesting, Pea 'Alderman' Dying, ...I planted the candytuft out around the rose, and while there, pruned the bran...Overcast 17°C / 62°F
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02 Jul 2009Plans Front: quince & rose bed gardenNow that the grass is dead, I need to think out what should be planted here, ...18°C / 65°F
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25 Jun 2009Hardening off is not a river in egypt 1 1 Columbine 'Denver Gold' Transplanted and New Zealand Spinach DyingI’ve never hardened things off before. I’m a wild and crazy type....18°C / 65°F
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25 Jun 2009planting out Columbine 'Denver Gold' Planting Out29°C / 85°F
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23 Jun 2009lettuce summary lettuce 'kagraner summer' Bolting, lettuce 'amish deer tongue' Bolting, Lettuc 'all year round' Bolting, Le...Well, the lettuce seem about done. What isn’t bolting is bitter. I thin...29°C / 84°F
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23 Jun 2009weekend progress Pea 'Golden Sweet' Dying, Carrot 'Tonda di Parigi' Showing True Leaves, New Zealand Spinach Planting Out, a...The golden sweet pea in the east bed looks like it is biting the dust. Very m...29°C / 84°F
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14 Jun 2009over the weekend 1 Caroline Raspberry Fruiting, Scarlet Runner Beans (Botanical Interests) Sprouting, Carrot 'Tonda di Parigi'...Only one raspberry Sunday, a few more coming The last bean sprout was in the ...Sunny 28°C / 82°F
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10 Jun 2009new flower Tradescantia ohiensis FloweringOvercast 20°C / 68°F
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05 Jun 2009at last 2 New Zealand Spinach SproutingSunny 24°C / 75°F
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05 Jun 2009Not dead yet. 1 Bee Balm MovedI completely thought this was gone, but apparently no. Dug up and moved to th...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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04 Jun 2009bean sprouts Scarlet Runner Beans (Botanical Interests) SproutingTwo sprouts, in the east bed.28°C / 82°F
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02 Jun 2009harvests Pea 'Golden Sweet' Fruiting, Pea 'Alderman' Dying, and Spinach FruitingThe golden sweet peas on the left and center beds had exactly one small pod e...20°C / 68°F
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02 Jun 2009more transplants Cleome 'Rose Queen' Planting OutFour of these (well, five, but two shared a cell) made it and were big enough...21°C / 69°F
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01 Jun 2009more blooms Barbie-Pink Peony Flowering, Rose Flowering, Really thorny rose Flowering, Heuchera 'Firefly' Flowering, Mo...Iris are done. Rose & orange have been going for a while now. Peony just ...21°C / 69°F
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29 May 2009my garlic is eScaping! 2 Vegetable garden , Garlic - Music Budding, Garlic - Chesnok Red Budding, Garlic - Georgia crystal Budding,...(it’s a bit sad how long I have been saving that title up. I find it un...
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25 May 2009bloom Birdfeeder & Stump garden and Reblooming Iris mix FloweringThe one that survived (that should be ‘earl of essex’) is bloomin...27°C / 81°F
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25 May 2009out out out Vegetable garden , Seed starting trays garden , Tomato 'Besser' Planting Out, Tomato 'Costoluto Genovese' P...We spent out holiday weekend putting up the trellises and irrigation in the v...Sunny 22°C / 71°F
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22 May 2009planting out Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll Blue' Planting Out, Blackberry Lily Planting Out, Lupine - Russel Hybrids Pl...Moved a bunch of this into the new bed by the stump where most of the iris di...Sunny 24°C / 76°F
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17 May 2009blooming 1 Grandmother's Iris Flowering and other lilac FloweringI will need to move the white ones somewhere other than in front of the white...Sunny 26°C / 78°F
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16 May 2009So not 'dark red' Backyard garden and Dark Red Tree Peony BloomingIt’s a clear pink, maybe a little coraly. Not bad at all, but not ̵...Sunny 22°C / 71°F
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14 May 2009Plants arrive Lobelia cardinalis Purchased, Tradescantia ohiensis Purchased, Shooting Star Purchased, and Mountain Mint P...I received my box from Prairie Moon today. Unfortunately, it was all sorts of...Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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