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28 Aug 2009Bizaro World 1 3 Balcony garden and Cucumber 'Chinese Yellow'Sunny 21°C / 70°F
Question: How do you know when your Chinese yellow cucumber is ripe?
Answer: When it starts to turn yellow?
Seriously. Up until a few days ago this was a uniform, somewhat pale green.
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27 Aug 2009Photo Update 4 1 Tomatillo 'Verde'Sunny 13°C / 55°F
Tomatillos! But the growing has been slow.
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26 Aug 2009Journal Woes 1 5 Balcony garden , The Worm Hotel garden , Strawberry Blooming, Strawberry 'Quinalt' Blooming, Strawberry 'Ch...Sunny 21°C / 70°F
Wow, I’ve positively failed at keeping up with my journal. Lots of things have died. Other things have fruited (sort of). I’ll try harder.
This summer, though splendid on the anti-heatwave front, has been dismal for most of the balcony dwellers. No summer squash. One sad cucumber. (A...
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21 Jul 2009Here There Be Giants 3 3 Balcony garden , Blueberry 'Sunshine Blue' Harvesting, Tomatillo 'Verde' Flowering, and Tomatillo 'Purple' ...14°C / 57°F
Among the many things that have been happening these past few weeks is the blooming of the amazing purple salvia (I think it’s a salvia) that I bought from Orchard a few months ago but apparently never entered into my database. I think I have the plant tag somewhere still (I hope so). Never...
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10 Jul 2009Back in the Game, and Worm Hotel Update 4 2 The Worm Hotel gardenSunny 17°C / 63°F
Has it really been a month since my last post? There’s so much to update, but for now I want to focus on the Worm Hotel.
After reading about the successes and advice of Katxena and cmagnus on adding tiers to the worm bin, I decided to take the plunge and add a tier myself. I’ve had th...
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07 Jun 2009More Weekend Work 5 3Sunny 15°C / 59°F
I forced myself to go out and work on the balcony again today, and I’m glad I did. Some of those plants wouldn’t have lasted much longer I don’t think. Potted up the following: 1 (rudbeckia), 3 (salmon yarrow), 4 (Indian blanket?), 6 (large gold coreposis), 7 (Mexican hat), 8 (A...
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06 Jun 2009Updates Galore - But No Photos 3 2 Balcony garden , Covert garden , Rudbeckia Potting Up, Shasta Daisy Potting Up, Salmon Yarrow Potting Up, L...Wow, has it really been two weeks? Last weekend I potted up a bunch of the baby plants in the stage 1 baby plant nursery to the stage 2 juvenile plant nursery (aka a plastic tub that’s not big enough to hold all the pots). Some of the Dixie cup pots the baby plants were in were slimy –...Sunny 15°C / 59°F
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20 May 2009A Little Night Gardening 3Sunny 13°C / 55°F
I got a few small items checked off the list this evening after dinner:
Potted up the tomatillos and currant tomatoes as they, especially the tomatillo verde, were busting their little Dixie cup pots at the seams. The tomatillos are in recycled 4" square pots and the currant tomatoes are in...
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19 May 2009Sprouts... Balcony garden , Covert garden , Stevia Sprouting, and Perennial Black Eyed-Susan Sprouting…are sprouting.Sunny 12°C / 54°F
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18 May 2009Quickly, Before I Pass Out 4 Balcony garden , Catnip Sprouting, Lemon Gem Marigold Sprouting, Basil 'Thai Sweet' Sprouting, and Basil 'A...So tired, so this has to be a quickie: A few more of the seeds have sprouted in their seedling pots: Thai Sweet Basil Aromatto Basil Catnip Lemon Gem Marigold (although it’s looking sad) A few seedlings are going crazy and need to be potted up in larger (temporary) pots: Tomatillo Verde es...Cloudy 13°C / 55°F
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