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11 May 2009First Up, First Out 1 2 Sunflower 'Edible Snack Seed' FloweringSunny 21°C / 70°F
The one that germinated first still has that head start. It is on the way to fully open.
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10 May 2009Separated 1 Watermelon 'Sugar Baby' Potting UpThe pot I bought had 3 seedlings. I extracted them and planted them in separate 4" pots.Sunny 21°C / 70°F
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09 May 2009Freak Early Bloom! 2 Chrysanthemum 'Fred Mudd' BloomingSunny 21°C / 70°F
Chrysanthemums bloom in response to there being fewer daylight hours. Daylight hours are lengthening right now. So why the bloom? Who knows.
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09 May 2009Yet More Fireblight European Pear 'Comice' PruningSunny 19°C / 66°F
So sad. Yet more showing up. It’s past the point where new infection sites will come (unless it rains again) but with time symptoms show up for infections that weren’t visible or were questionable before. Lost 2 more set fruit today because an infection was close enough to them that I...
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09 May 2009Starting to Really Produce Raspberry 'Else's Choice' HarvestingThis has been producing a couple raspberries per week for a couple weeks but today was the first day that I saw deep inside what is becoming a “thicket” of raspberries and seeing that there are raspberries I’m missing. It’s not yet producing more than I can eat just being ...Sunny 19°C / 66°F
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09 May 2009Lawn Gone To Seed 1 Party in the Back gardenSunny 18°C / 65°F
I haven’t made Folia entries for my lawn because it’s composed of a couple species and the company doesn’t tell you which they are. Some sort of fescue for sure. Anyway, at least one of those species has gone to seed right now. I think another one may have kicked it off a couple...
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08 May 2009Coming Back From The Brink 3 Australian Finger Lime BuddingSunny 21°C / 70°F
I have drip irrigation in my front and back yards. I don’t know how it happened, but a couple “circuits” got broken. So for months this wasn’t getting water. It was already a pretty small plant, overshadowed by the bamboo and rose next to it. And the various follies that g...
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08 May 2009First Fully Open 1 Bush Bean 'Royal Burgundy' FloweringSunny 21°C / 70°F
Because of their purple color, the blooms have been noticeable for a week or more. But today is the first day I’ve seen one fully open.
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08 May 2009Sprouting 1 Fava Beans Sprouting and The Waiting Room gardenSunny 14°C / 58°F
They actually started cresting the surface the day before yesterday but today is the first day I’ve seen something so far above “ground” that I could call it a sprout.
I’ve never grown fava beans before. I got these seeds from a CRFG member. The seeds are so big that IR...
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08 May 2009Deadheading Did Some Good 1 Rose 'Angel Face' Flowering and Rugosa Rose 'Wild Spice' FloweringSunny 11°C / 52°F
‘Angel Face’ is blooming again after I deadheaded the bush. The bush is beleaguered, though. Last year it seems to have caught a bad rust infection. From what I’ve read, there’s no curing that, only managing it.
‘Wild Spice’ is in bloom as well. I don’t d...
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