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Member since: Oct 07 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 8 | Organic gardener
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04 May 2013Olallieberry Pruning and Apple 'Yellow Newtown Pippin' Pruning
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Clear 22°C / 72°FI really need to learn to read the weather report well enough to predict what’s fireblight weather. We had some of it about 3 weeks ago and it hit my apple and olallieberry harvest hard. While fireblight can affect a lot of plants in the Rose family, it usually hits apples & pears. When...
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22 Apr 2013Plum 'Mariposa' and Grafted Varieties garden
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This is the graft I’d have the least luck with and so far it’s doing among the best. The peach grafts didn’t take because I didn’t cut them short enough and use enough Parafilm. They died out. This one, although also long, took. As long as it doesn’t end up incompati...Overcast 14°C / 57°F -
08 Apr 2013Aprium 'Flavor Delight' and Cherry 'Royal Lee'
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Palm fronds and branches blown on the ground all over town. Power lines down in some parts of LA County. My peach seedling was blown down once but I picked it up and lodged it somewhere I hope it will be more sheltered. My ‘Royal Lee’ tree has been blown over and I’m leaving it ...Windy 19°C / 66°F -
07 Apr 2013Garlic 'Lautrec Pink' and Limbo garden
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Despite the fact that squirrels, raccoons or birds keep digging nearby looking for worms/grubs, these are getting thicker and stronger now that they’re no longer shaded by too many plants.Clear 19°C / 66°F -
07 Apr 2013
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Two Worthy Horticultural Crowdfunding Projects!
I found one while looking up plant breeders and was told about the other when I posted about the former. 1) Creating a kit for home gardeners that guides them through breeding their own (botanical0 fruit and vegetable varieties. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/grow-plant-diversity 2) Creating a...Clear 17°C / 63°F -
07 Apr 2013
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PBS just showed this on Nature this week. I believe it may have initially been shown on Canadian TV as “Smarty Plants”. http://video.pbs.org/video/2338524490 Anyway, a SERIOUSLY cool Nature ep on how plants are aware of their surroundings & how they communicate with other plants, ...Clear 17°C / 63°F -
06 Apr 2013
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Clear 17°C / 63°FSQUEEEEEEEE! I was selected to be a member of the neighboring city’s inaugural community garden despite not being a resident. (I’m actually closer than some citizens of that city but I totally understand the need to make that city’s citizens higher up in priority for getting plo...
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28 Mar 2013Snow Pea 'Taichung 11' Harvesting
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Powdery mildew hit the snow peas again. I’ve been too busy with school to spray it with baking powder solution when I first saw it. Now it’s spread too far to really do anything about unless it’s pulling the plants out. I’m pretty sure this happens because the automatic sp...Clear 26°C / 79°F -
26 Jan 2013
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Anyone watch "Allotment Wars"?
Just saw this BBC program. Some of the stuff is stuff I’m sure happens in US community gardens, others seem more UK-like. For instance, I haven’t seen too many community gardens with deluxe sheds like UK allotments often have. Heck, I’m so desperate for a 1 bedroom pad that I...Overcast 13°C / 55°F -
20 Jan 2013Descendent Pepper 'Piment d'Espelette' Harvesting and Pepper 'Piment d'Espelette' Harvesting
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Clear 24°C / 75°FFor some time I’ve seen signs my peppers were being stolen. I thought it might be the yardeners as I’d seen them take other fruits, but I then caught my brother red-handed in the act. He wasn’t sorry, didn’t apologize, and I expect more of the same. My father feels that si...
