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08 May 2009Attempted Rosenapping 4 Glaucous Dog Rose FloweringSunny 11°C / 52°F
Ah, my neighborhood is full of such fine upstanding citizens… I went out front again on the 8th to try to make up for the fuzzy pictures I took on the 7th. And found that sometime in-between some jackass tried to pull off part of my rose to take the flower. They didn’t succeed and no...
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07 May 2009Teeny Weeny Sprouts Poppy 'Drama Queen' SproutingGiven how large these plants become eventually, I’m stunned to see how small a sprout they make.Sunny 14°C / 58°F
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07 May 20093 more trays 1 Irish Moss Sprouting and The Waiting Room gardenSunny 22°C / 72°F
The trays which I started quite a few days later have sprouted now as well.
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07 May 2009Foxglove Budding Foxglove 'Excelsior Hybrids' BuddingSunny 22°C / 72°F
It’s an apricot-colored one. I don’t know the actual cultivar name but I’ll blog it under this anyway.
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07 May 2009Record Time! 2 Tomato 'Koralik' Planting Out, Party in the Back garden , Tomato 'Stupice' Planting Out, Tomato 'Legend' Pl...Sunny 22°C / 72°F
OMG. I planted the pot the same day I got it. Must be a first.
Planted in the southwestern raised bed, tagged and staked.
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07 May 2009In Bloom, OMG! 3 1 Glaucous Dog Rose FloweringSunny 17°C / 62°F
I planted these from seed. Yes, rose from seed. And finally they’ve bloomed. The pictures I took today turned out blurry and I forgot to go back out and take better ones.
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07 May 2009Came With a Flower On It Tomato 'Koralik' Flowering and The Waiting Room gardenThis is the only one that’s already in bloom.Sunny 18°C / 65°F
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06 May 2009Checking For Size Carrot 'Purple Haze' Harvesting and The Waiting Room gardenOvercast 17°C / 62°F
I’ve never grown carrots before so I don’t know when to harvest them. This one is much bigger than when they were transplanted but far short of market size. It’s about 3/4 of "baby carrot" size. However, given that the purple carrots I bought at the Farmers Market had ...
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06 May 2009Definite Fireblight 1 Medlar 'Nottingham' Flowering, Apple 'Yellow Newtown Pippin' Setting Fruit, Apple 'Hauer Pippin' Setting Fr...Overcast 13°C / 55°F
I had hoped I’d done all the pruning I needed to do because I was reasonably ruthless the first two times. However, today I spotted something I missed before. And then another. And they were close to older wood so I actually had to prune a branch so large it almost required a lopper. I̵...
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06 May 2009Opening Up 1 Medlar 'Nottingham' FloweringThe other medlar flowers are opening a week later than the first one. Only one is open today, which is good news as long as the rains have stopped for good.Overcast 14°C / 57°F
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