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27 Jul 2009First Harvest Zucchini Harvesting and Vegetable gardenPulled one off that was almost 2 feet long. Grilled it – delicious! Unfortunately my wife picked it and cut it up before I had a chance to take a picture. :(Cloudy 26°C / 78°F
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31 May 2009Moved outside Rosemary Planting Out, Herb garden , and Spearmint Planting OutSeedlings are kinda happy, so I planted it outside in my new herb planter box.17°C / 63°F
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31 May 2009Pepper seedlings not happy either Vegetable garden , Bell Peppers Planting Out, and Long Peppers Planting OutMy green pepper seedlings did worse than my tomatoes. Almost 70 days later and they’re barely an inch tall. They’re just not growing at all. So I figured I’d just plant them outside and see what they do. If they don’t grow in the next week or so, I should still be able...Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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31 May 2009Roots rotted, bought some grown plants instead Strawberries Planting Out and Fruit gardenThe strawberry roots I planted about 3 weeks ago never came up. I dug two up and they didn’t grow at all. Turns out I think I planted them too deeply and they rotted. So today I went out and bought 3 grown strawberry plants and planted them instead.Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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31 May 2009Seedlings not happy, planted out anyway Tomatoes Planting Out and Vegetable gardenThe seeds I started indoors this year haven’t gone so well. The tomatoes have been growing for almost 70 days and they’re only about 3 inches tall. I think I should have moved them to pots and out of the little seed starter earlier. I decided I’ll just plant them out now so I...Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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30 May 2009Pray for my little lemon Lemon Bonsai Tree Fruiting17°C / 63°F
My little bonsai lemon tree is still limping along. It even managed to grow a tiny lemon! I hope it matures. This is about as big of a fruit that it ever produces. It’s around this time that they usually fall off. Go go little lemon!
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30 May 2009Harvesting Rhubarb 1 Rhubarb HarvestingSunny 16°C / 60°F
So this is the 3rd year for my little rhubarb patch and now is the time when you’re supposed to be able to start harvesting. They’re getting pretty big, so I pulled off a few that were about an inch wide and about a foot long. My question is, are they really ripe?
I pulled enough fo...
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22 May 2009Two planted out 1 Luffa Planting Out and Vegetable gardenMy seedlings are starting to get big and I plan on doing a lot of luffa this year so I planted two of the luffa seedlings by my shed behind my potato tire while I was setting that up and planting some cotton seeds around the tire. Luffa, potatoes, and cotton… I’m such a frackin farme...Sunny 26°C / 78°F
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07 Mar 2009Spring is here 1 Crocus Flowering and Flower gardenCloudy
They’re popping up everywhere.
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03 Nov 2008Failure Potato Tire Harvesting and Vegetable gardenCloudy 8°C / 46°F
As you can see from the picture, that was all I got. 2 kinda large potatoes and 7 tiny ones. :( I’m thinking the soil I used had the wrong fertilizer combination and made it put all it’s energy into the leaves instead of the roots. That or I buried them too quickly or packed the s...
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