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28 Mar 2009Spring Colorado Snow - FINALLY! 1Colorado’s been as arid as my journal entries, but i digress. We got about 15" of wet snow. A much welcome sight. This winter has been brutally dry and the wind doesn’t help. My spring greens, peas and potatoes are nestled under the snow, and with 51F today and Sunday, should ab...-9°C / 15°F
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17 Jul 2008tomatoes and corn 2 Vegetable gardenOvercast 22°C / 71°F
i love this time of the gardening year, because all the hard work, and liberal watering pays off. i munch on the wacky snap peas that decided that the shade from the corn was good enough to spit out a few more flowers and a few more pods. what’s more, is i’ve never had tomatoes do so ...
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17 Jul 2008daisies Front Porch gardenOvercast 22°C / 71°F
until living at this house, i’ve never had daisies before. the shady south side of this porch bed has a wonderful, large specimen. a few years ago, i split a part of it for a balanced transplant in the front bed. i broke 2 shovels before getting it out of the ground. the newbie took the fir...
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16 Jul 2008sneaky cukes Vegetable gardenWell, i have finally found that having kid during the height of garden season will make the garden do crazy things. the obvious fruit are showing themselves, such as tomatoes, peppers and corn, but the puny cucumber plants that have hardly crawled up the trellis showed me last night that i had 2 ...Sunny 23°C / 74°F
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04 Jul 2008oh my gosh Vegetable gardenSunny 19°C / 67°F
it’s been way too long. and even these pics are a few weeks old. you see? the cabbage patch brought us a baby girl. the 5k garden is in a good place where i just need to water.
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23 Jun 2008Summer's here Front Porch gardenCloudy 28°C / 83°F
sorry for the gap in entries. just a few quick bloom shots i snapped this evening. we’ve had some very warm, windy days, so this afternoon’s hot overcast sky was a nice relief. the front bed had been overrun with california poppies in years past, so this year i’ve culled them ba...
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27 May 2008NPR Talking Plants mentions my pea! 1 Vegetable gardenRainy 8°C / 46°F
Ketzel Levine has included one of my sugar snap peas with a rain drop in today’s TP blog post. Yes, i’m the Dirt Nerd.
IF you haven’t joined her flickr group, at least take a look. There’s some awesome specimens in there.
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18 May 2008my pepper, my pepper Vegetable gardenOvercast 29°C / 84°F
I finally found my poblano peppers. Yes, i could have started them from seed, but alas, i didn’t. i also found a mild jalapano.
also need to update that my squash/cucumber experiment is sprouting. YAY.
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18 May 2008xeriscaped border Back Yard gardenSunny 29°C / 84°F
I had this strip of bare clay that wanted to produce weeds, so i tilled it up, and transplanted a bunch of sedum throughout. we’ll keep you posted
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18 May 2008We are Financial Times… 1 1 Front Porch gardenSunny 29°C / 84°F
just took a few shots of the front containers to show off the lining of newspaper. i wanted to test a theory about keeping the containers moist in our high desert climate
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