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15 Mar 2009Happy Birthday Parsley! 1 Parsley 'Extra Curled Dwarf' and Balcony gardenOne year old today, and not looking a day over 3 months. :)Partly Sunny 15°C / 59°F
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15 Mar 2009Little Cilantro Cilantro 'Delfino' Showing True Leaves and Balcony gardenPartly Sunny 15°C / 59°F
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15 Mar 2009Spring Cleaning 3 4 Balcony gardenSunny 16°C / 60°F
I spent a couple of hours today doing some serious spring cleaning out on the balcony. I had a heart-to-heart with myself and, with the encouragement of some fellow Folians (thanks guys!) I decided to cut back my ambitions for this year in terms of what I could reasonably grow on the balcony. I l...
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15 Mar 2009Only the Lonely Lemon Balm Repotted and Balcony gardenPartly Sunny 14°C / 58°F
After all the effort I went to growing lemon balm from seed I ended up with one lousy plant (from an entire packet!) It has survived ok over the winter, though it isn’t that big, but it’s only 2 or 3 inches tall – not exactly lush. Plus it was growing way over on the edge of the...
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15 Mar 2009Given a New Lease on Life 1 Mint 'Chocolate' Transplanted and Balcony gardenThis mint has been existing at the bottom of the pineapple sage pot since, well, last summer. It isn’t very lush. It isn’t very happy. But it is alive, and green. So I dug up some of it and put it in two separate pots to see if it establishes itself (it should). In one pot I was very ...Partly Sunny 14°C / 58°F
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15 Mar 2009Moved Onion 'Purplette Purple-skinned Mini' Repotted and Balcony gardenMoved these with the other onions to the big tomato tub I might keep. We’ll see…Partly Sunny 14°C / 58°F
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15 Mar 2009Moved Onion 'Guardsman Salad Onion' Repotted and Balcony gardenMoved these onions to the big tomato tub that I might keep because it has morning glory seeds in it (if they ever decide to germinate). Don’t know if they will survive, but I needed the windowbox for strawberries.Partly Sunny 14°C / 58°F
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15 Mar 2009Aphids. 'Nuff Said Kale 'Russian Red' Dying and Balcony gardenPartly Sunny 14°C / 58°F
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15 Mar 2009Creeping Thyme Resolutely Persists Creeping Thyme Repotted and Balcony gardenPartly Sunny 14°C / 58°F
Despite neglect, or perhaps because of it, the creeping time has greened up again since February (when it rained just about every stinking day). I repotted it to a larger pot, and I think it is pleased now that it has a little more room to breathe…
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15 Mar 2009Dead or Not? Compact Oregano and Balcony gardenThe compact oregano once again looks dead from neglect over the winter, but it resurrected once… will it happen again? I watered it and put it in a sunnier spot. We shall see…Partly Sunny 14°C / 58°F
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