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24 May 2009Close to Bloom 1 Roman Chamomile FloweringOvercast 10°C / 50°F
Chamomile is interesting. It starts small but by the end of the season can easily engulf all the plants around it. For this reason, I’ve tried to refrain from watering it as much as other things. It gets massive otherwise.
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23 May 2009Preparing for the Inevitable 4 Party in the Back garden , The Waiting Room garden , and Business in Front gardenUnless my disability suddenly becomes cured enough for me to join the workforce again or I win the lottery, it’s looking like I’m going to lose my home. Which isn’t fun but the absolute worst bit of it is losing the gardens I’ve planned so carefully and toiled over. Partic...Overcast 10°C / 50°F
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21 May 2009Speedier 2 Sunflower 'Edible Snack Seed' Sprouting and The Waiting Room gardenI decided to experiment with soaking them for about 24 hrs before planting. I think it worked. I wish I had been good about writing a Folia entry the day I planted them. I didn’t. So I’m just guessing when they were sown. However, they definitely did sprout today. I decided to start m...Sunny 16°C / 60°F
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20 May 2009Flower Buds, Soon Open Flowers 1 Sweet Pepper 'Yellow Bell' FloweringThey’ve been around for a while and should pop soonish.Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
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20 May 2009Most Flowering 3 Tomato 'Koralik' Flowering, Tomato 'Legend' Flowering, Tomato 'Stupice' Flowering, Tomato 'Matt's Wild Cher...Most of the experimental tomatoes I got from CCSF are flowering. One that isn’t has buds on the verge of doing so.Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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18 May 2009Dead Except for the Rootstock 1 1 Persimmon 'Chocolate' Dying and Persimmon 'Nishimura Wase or Coffee Cake' DyingThis is my first major disappointment from Raintree Nursery. I wrote them because although there’s a blurb on their website about how shipped bareroot persimmons sometimes take longer to break dormancy, it’s well past time these should have woken up. The rootstocks have leafed out but...Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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18 May 2009Baby Carrots 1 Carrot 'Purple Haze' HarvestingOvercast 16°C / 60°F
Because I raised them in containers and wasn’t brutal in thinning them, they are not attaining supermarket sizes. But they’re more tender this way. ‘Purple Haze’ tends to get a bit woody in the center otherwise.
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18 May 2009Only One Apple 'Hauer Pippin' Setting FruitOvercast 16°C / 60°F
This had several blossoms but bloomed slightly later than the Yellow Newton Pippin, which put it square in harm’s way when we got late rains and perfect fireblight weather. The rain would have deterred pollinators in the first place, and it’s possible that the copper sprays needed to ...
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18 May 2009Setting Fruit 1 Grapefruit 'Oro Blanco' Setting FruitOvercast 16°C / 60°F
Several set fruits already. If all of them come to fruition, the branches are probably going to need support.
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18 May 2009One by One Tayberry FruitingOvercast 16°C / 60°F
Not a ton of fruit, but definitely delicious. I think it’s soared to perhaps the second-best tasting in the entire cane berry bed.
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