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02 Jun 2009Finally Getting Some Take Tomato 'Mamma Mia' Setting FruitCloudy 17°C / 62°F
The CCSF tomatoes showed fruit first but since they were raised in a greenhouse, the flowers could have been pollinated there. The Mamma Mia is the first tomato to fruit in my yard, meaning nights are finally warm enough to ensure pollination.
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02 Jun 2009Deeper Color - Full Ripeness Sweet Cherry 'Minnie Royal' HarvestingOvercast 17°C / 62°F
I ate the ones that I could salvage when they were bright red but these ones left on the tree grew much darker. I couldn’t eat them because they were all gotten by opportunists (fungus, ants, maggots) that took advantage of the splits caused by the rain.
I tried to pick most of them off tod...
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02 Jun 2009Yay! 2 Strawberry 'Mara des Bois' FloweringSunny 17°C / 62°F
I didn’t get to taste any of these fruits last year. The one or two fruits I had disappeared. They looked as if they were picked but it’s next to impossible that that could have happened. Well, flowers likely mean fruit. I hope I can save them from the slugs that have attacked the res...
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31 May 2009Better Harvests 4 2 Snow Pea 'Carouby de Maussane' Harvesting, French Bush Bean 'Rolande' Harvesting, Bush Bean 'Royal Burgundy...Cloudy 17°C / 62°F
I’m beginning to get something more like a full basket of fruit & veg.
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31 May 20093-Leaved! 3 Sunflower 'Edible Snack Seed' Showing True LeavesCloudy 17°C / 62°F
It was weird enough that this thing had 3 cotyledons but I didn’t expect it to continue when it got its true leaves!
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31 May 2009Second Wind 2 Strawberry 'Lipstick' FloweringCloudy 17°C / 62°F
I think I was only able to harvest one strawberry off of this because the slugs got at the rest. This plant was looking really haggard for a while but it’s looking better now.
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31 May 2009First Tomatoes Tomato 'Koralik' Setting Fruit and Tomato 'Stupice' Setting Fruit17°C / 62°F
Not sure if I already journaled about this but the first tomatoes showed up about a week ago on these two.
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31 May 2009Mystery Solved 2 Sunflower 'Edible Snack Seed'Cloudy 17°C / 62°F
I was wondering what was going at these leaves. I had a hard time believing it was slugs. Today I saw the culprit: a bird. I couldn’t get a good look at the bird but birds of the same size I’ve seen at other times hanging out around this area are the Lesser Goldfinch and one that migh...
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31 May 2009In Full Flower 2 Sweet Pepper 'Yellow Bell' Flowering and Party in the Back gardenCloudy 17°C / 62°F
The flower buds have been evident for at least a fortnight but they finally opened.
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31 May 2009Booted Out 2 Snow Pea 'Carouby de Maussane' Planting Out and The Waiting Room gardenManaged to get them all in the ground today. Some are near the existing stand of snow peas and others are in the northwestern raised bed near the peppers. I remembered to toss some Sluggo ’round them when I saw that one of the sprouts had been nibbled to the ground by molluscs even when it ...Cloudy 13°C / 55°F
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