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02 May 2009Resown Indian Blanket Flower Sown and Covert gardenResown.15°C / 59°F
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02 May 2009Resown Blue Borage Sown and Covert gardenResown.Overcast 15°C / 59°F
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02 May 2009Rain! 1 2 Balcony garden and Covert gardenMuch to my surprise it rained today. Rain, in May! Yesterday as well. It isn’t as though it wasn’t forecast (“showers”, they said), but I figured it was wishful thinking on the part of the weather service. It’s May in California. Who expects rain? I bought a grow lig...Sunny 13°C / 56°F
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02 May 2009And So It Begins 5 2 Covert garden , Black-Eyed Susan Sown, Perennial Black Eyed-Susan Sown, Indian Blanket Flower Sown, Plains ...Sunny 21°C / 69°F
Edit: Resowed on May 02 (originally sown April 12).
(Cue maniacal laughter.)
In an act of ultimate procrastination I spent about four hours today weeding the CG. It was probably in the mid to upper 60s and sunny with a light breeze, so it was just perfect. This is the first time in a very long ti...
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24 Apr 2009Sprouted Hot Pepper 'Thai Red Chili' Sprouting and Balcony gardenSunny 15°C / 59°F
So the seeds on the deck actually might still be viable.Still a lot of things that haven’t sprouted yet though.
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24 Apr 2009Second Seedling Sprouted Hot Pepper 'Long Purple Cayenne' and Balcony gardenSunny 15°C / 59°F
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24 Apr 2009Sprouting Sweet Pea 'Little Sweetheart' Sprouting, Sweet Pea 'Villa Roma' Sprouting, Sweet Pea 'Pastel Sunset' Sprout...There are several new sweet pea sprouts, hooray! No way to tell if they are from the original batch, or the newer ones. I guess I’ll find out what I have once they start blooming!Sunny 17°C / 62°F
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24 Apr 2009Not So Happy Balcony garden and Blueberry 'Sunshine Blue' Setting FruitSunny 17°C / 62°F
My blueberry, though it isn’t looking so hot, has decided to fruit this year after all. I haven’t been that careful with it this past winter, and I have a feeling it is not getting enough food, plus the soil is probably not acidic enough. A lot of the older leaves have brown spots on ...
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24 Apr 2009First Update 2 4 The Worm Hotel gardenDamn it, I just wrote out a nice long post and hit a wrong button and now it is gone! That will teach me to write within the web browser, instead of in Writer. Going to therefore just sum: Picked up the worms 2 weeks ago tomorrow Initial set-up was: sheets of newspaper, soaked coir and shredded p...Sunny 17°C / 62°F
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22 Apr 2009Roll Call Part 3 Covert garden and Prairie Coneflower SproutingSunny 17°C / 62°F
Newly sprouted: #13 Prairie Coneflower
None of the other cups show any signs of activity yet.
Buzz buzz buzz!
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