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Member since: Feb 12 | Last seen: Apr 13 | Years gardening: 45
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10 Jul 2012TALK ABOUT garden , Morning Glory 'grandpa Ott's' Growing, and Fern, painted, Japanese Athyrium Growing
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Cloudy 28°C / 82°F1. I found a ‘grandpa ott’s’ morning glory that had volunteered in the vegetable garden. Remarkably, it was in the flower row and I kept promising it a trellis but have never gotten around to it. See it starting to climb the sunflower plant growing directly behind it to the Nort...
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10 Jul 2012Raspberry 'Prelude' Harvesting, RADISH 'Cherry Belle' Thinning Out, VEGETABLE garden , CUCUMBER pkl 'Litt...
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Cloudy 28°C / 82°FWatered the Southern half of the garden where most of the vegetables and annual flowers are growing. Did some hand weeding. Took images. Picked and ate 8 raspberries. Fertilized a couple of the sunflower plants. Scratched the basil and thinned the radishes. 1. New hemerocallis ‘strawberry c...
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10 Jul 2012GARLIC overview Harvesting
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Cloudy 28°C / 82°FI harvested 2 garlic plants to see their size. Didn’t take note of varieties but one was growing in the center of the bed and the other on the west edge. Needless to say, the one in the center was bigger. I’m not thrilled with the sizes but I’ll take what I get. I have a feeling...
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09 Jul 2012
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Sunny 27°C / 80°FHow 4 baby birds can fit into a nest that could barely hold 4 eggs, is beyond me! I’m tickled pink! 1. soooo camouflaged 2. they heard me and thought I was there to feed them. Sigh…! mama juices flowing!
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09 Jul 2012
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More going on in the flower Gardens than Veg Garden
Poppy, Breadseed (Papaver somniferum) , Stachys densiflora 'hummelo' Blooming, Hosta#75B 'blue mouse ears'...Sunny 27°C / 80°FEverything needed watering so I set up the soaker hose in the north half of the Vegetable Garden and oscillated the Kidney and Grotto Gardens. Planted 3 hostas temporarily in North Perennial Rectangle Garden. Tried to map Fir/Hosta South Garden but mosquitos were too overwhelming and I didn’...
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09 Jul 2012KALE 'Winterbor' Harvesting
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Sunny 27°C / 80°FNo gardening all weekend (fri, sat, sun) except to harvest kale on Friday after setting up for my weekend art/craft show. With it, I made ‘massaged’ kale salad. Mixed olive oil, honey and lemon juice ground cayenne, salt and pepper. In total, this dressing amounted to approximately 1 ...
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05 Jul 2012
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Bloom Update and a Bouquet and other stuff
Morning Glory 'grandpa Ott's' Growing, Container Sweet Peas (east deck) garden , Bouquets 2012 Blooming, El...Partly Sunny 29°C / 84°F1. Hemerocallis ‘ditch orange’ 2. Dahlia…just a small red flowering variety. If anyone has a name, I’m game. 3. Bouquet for WWW: perennial foxglove, monkshood, knapweed, poppy, astilbe, asiatic lily, daylily, gaillardia, stachys (wood betony). 4. Red-bellied Snake (Storeri...
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05 Jul 2012CHARD Harvesting, PARSLEY 'Gigante d'Italia' Harvesting, and Raspberry 'Prelude' Harvesting
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Partly Sunny 26°C / 79°F1…..and a promise of my raspberriy briars possibilitiesl so I’m giving them the primary spot. A meager harvest of 19 berries (which makes a total of about 25 berries) but I know they will fulfill their potential. 2. parsley 3. chard before harvest 4. chard after harvest 5. chard harve...
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04 Jul 2012Rose Growing, GROTTO garden , Salvia 'Blue bedder' Blooming, Mullein Flowering, Knapweed, lesser Blooming,...
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Overcast 24°C / 75°F1. Hemerocallis ‘flaming sword’….blooming. Is this ‘flaming sword’? 2. Lesser knapweed. 3. Mullein….see the honey bee doing it’s thing? 4. Salvia ‘blue bedder’ …..barely blooming. 5. a small section of Grotto Garden
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04 Jul 2012CUCUMBER pkl 'Little Leaf' Growing, COSMOS 'Double Click' Growing, PEA Snow 'Oregon Giant' Setting Fruit, T...
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Storms 24°C / 75°F1. can you guess what I’m growing here? If you said pebbles and rocks you wouldn’t be far off. This image is a testament to what can be done with ‘lemons’. I’ve been cultivating it for 30 years and still get rocks. Areas where compost is on surface of soil looks bett...
