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Member since: Jun 08 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 12 | Organic gardener
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18 Jun 2013Bush Bean 'Goldcrop Wax' Harvesting, Bush Bean 'Pencil Pod Wax' Harvesting, Bush Bean 'Improved Tendergreen...
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Light Thunderstorms and Rain 27°C / 81°FSpent an hour out in the garden tonight, snacking and harvesting. It’s Horn of Plenty time!! DH and I officially have more blackberries than we can keep up with, which means that it’s time for a party. :) (I’ve been promising this to a bunch of friends and classmates for a coup...
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16 Jun 2013
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Harvesting & Planting root vegetables
Coneflower 'White Swan' Flowering, Coneflower 'Purple' Flowering, Onion 'White' Harvesting, Onion 'Red' Har...Clear 35°C / 95°FToday in the garden: Harvested more garlic & onions & carrots, added Espoma Plant-Tone fertilizer and 8 bags of county compost to the newly empty beds, turned the soil, raked it level, and planted 3 varieties of sweet potatoes (which arrived in the mail yesterday from Sand Hill Preservati...
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05 Jun 2013
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Harvested the first few blackberries today, with tomatoes and peppers and beans on the way!
Chinese cabbage 'Fun Jen' Under Attack, Tomato 'Sungold' Setting Fruit, and Blackberry 'Ouachita' HarvestingMostly Cloudy 32°C / 90°FHarvested 3 blackberries today – they were a bit more tart than I was expecting, but still very tasty! So satisfying to be eating these berries only about 15 months after planting a bunch of bare-root sticks in the ground!! Spotted green tomatoes on the Sungold and Cherokee Purple plants t...
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05 Jun 2013
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Just in time for harvest day... a monster zucchini!
Zucchini 'Cocozella' HarvestingClear 32°C / 90°FWith a tube of sunscreen and a quarter for scale. I returned from a few days out of town, visiting family, and received this gift from my garden upon my return. LOL! I was hoping that the squash vine borers wouldn’t “get” my summer squash plants while I was away, and that wish ...
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27 May 2013
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Harvesting (green garlic, carrots, squash, asparagus) + Blackberries update
Garlic - medium bulbs - white clove wrappers Harvesting, Carrots: Cosmic Purple Harvesting, Asparagus 'Jers...Clear 32°C / 90°FI passed my comprehensive oral exam on Wednesday, and have been luxuriating in a studying-free long weekend. Ahhhhhh…. :D On Saturday DH and I went on a road trip to explore some neat spots near Monck’s Corner, South Carolina (more about that in a later post), and on Sunday we went k...
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26 May 2013
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Harvesting 5 varieties of carrots + Squash vine borer
Summer Squash 'Early Crookneck' Under Attack and Carrots: Rainbow HarvestingPartly Cloudy 32°C / 89°FToday I harvested the first few carrots of my fifth carrot variety: Rainbow. The carrots of this variety come in a range of colors, even though they’re all produced from the same cross of two varieties. Makes it fun. Here’s a survey of the carrot varieties I’m growing this yea...
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25 May 2013
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Visiting Cypress Gardens (Monck's Corner, SC)
Clear 29°C / 85°FI’ve heard of Cypress Gardens since moving to the Charleston area, but since it’s about an hour’s drive away we didn’t make it out there until today. One of the highlights of Cypress Gardens is that after paying the entrance fee you can paddle one of their wooden boats ar...
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25 May 2013
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Visiting Mepkin Abbey (Monck's Corner, SC)
Partly Cloudy 29°C / 85°FMepkin Abbey is an active Trappist monastery located in Monck’s Corner, South Carolina. There are garden areas that are open to the public, and private areas that have restricted access (for the monks and those staying there on spiritual retreats). Twice a day the monks offer a tour of th...
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21 May 2013Asparagus 'Jersey Supreme' Growing, Chinese cabbage 'Fun Jen' Growing, Pepper 'Kaala' Ripening, Colocasia G...
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Clear 27°C / 80°FLogging photos and events from earlier this month (5/21/2013).
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19 May 2013
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Lots of flowers + first crookneck squash harvest of the year
Summer Squash 'Early Crookneck' Harvesting, Chives 'Common' Flowering, Pineapple Guava Flowering, Confedera...Clear 24°C / 75°FThe first daylily and Hydrangea blooms of the year The Confederate jasmine is blooming up a storm, perfuming the whole back yard Our pineapple guava trees are covered in gorgeous flowers, and a bunch of birds are feasting on their fleshy petals Flowering common chives
