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09 Jul 2009Just grumbling out loud 1 Simplicity gardenIt’s time to get serious if I want a winter garden. And I do. The trouble is that my budget is going to be severely strained just buying food off the grocery store shelves for the next few months, so it is hard to make myself shell out for seeds. I could try Artistic Gardens again….th...21°C / 69°F
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07 Jul 2009Squash blossoms 1 4 Simplicity garden and Squash, sweet meatOne of the buds on the squash plant has begun to open into a big yellow blossom. I think it is a male blossom. There are a lot more buds. The first to open is the closest to the roots, and I wonder if they will continue to open in a pattern going out from the center.Overcast 13°C / 56°F
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07 Jul 2009Salad from the garden, at last 3 1 Simplicity garden , Lettuce, Super Gourmet Salad Blend Harvesting, Beet, Blend (Persistence B2) Harvesting,...14°C / 57°F
I harvested one head of lettuce, four tiny beet leaves and two nasturtium blossoms, and took them home and made a real salad, with a little blue cheese dressing.
The lettuce was a nice butterhead type, from a Territorial Seed Company blend (the Super Gourmet Salad Blend). The choices are Slobolt,...
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06 Jul 2009Rain againFirst a little misty drizzle (I believe this is what the Irish call a “soft day”) and now a sweet, gray-curtained downpour. I’m busy today cleaning my living room and have all the doors and windows wide open to enjoy the fresh air, and I can hear it falling on all the leaves on ...Rainy 16°C / 61°F
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29 Jun 2009New Plants and Vandals 2 Tomato, Sungold and Simplicity gardenOK, so I wasn’t going to buy any more tomatoes. I have 4. On a trellis. Enough. Then I put a concrete pot in my garden that I got from freecycle, and started thinking about what to put in it. I finally decided to put in a cherry tomato, and stick on a sign inviting passersby to help themsel...Sunny 12°C / 54°F
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26 Jun 2009All tomatoes blooming Simplicity garden , Tomato, Red Fig Flowering, Tomato, German Striped Flowering, Tomato, Brandywine (Provid...All my tomatoes definitely have blossoms on them now. I’m trying not to touch or handle the foliage except when I really have to for trellising. But these guys now need some heavy pruning too, so I need to take a half hour and a knife and twine and get busy.Cloudy 18°C / 65°F
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25 Jun 2009Garden filling in 2 1 Simplicity garden , Cabbage, Derby Day (4 transplants, Pers C1 & Prov B2,C5) , Radish, Watermelon (Persiste...Sunny 11°C / 51°F
My garden now has something in all the squares, plus a bed of potatoes and beans (back behind the tomatoes) and one squash in a pile of manure. You can see a big difference in the two photos. The older one is from 5/29. The plant photos are from today: my biggest cabbage, the watermelon radish, t...
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23 Jun 2009Chives, carrots and ... maybe ... parsnips. Also beans and potatoes. 1 Simplicity garden , Carrot, Blanche a Collet Verte (Persistence D4) , Parsnip, Cobham (Providence B5) , Chi...Chives are coming up finally! The square of Blanche a Collet Verte carrots has sprouts. And there is one, tiny, tiny green sprout in the parsnip square. It must have heard us talking about it. I hope it is just the first of several. The flageolet beans have two sprouts, and the French fingerling ...Sunny 23°C / 74°F
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22 Jun 2009Still more sprouts 4 Simplicity garden , Carrot, Baby (Providence D3) , Mesclun (Providence A1) , Calendula Officianalis (Provid...Carrots (from the package labelled “Baby Carrots”), mesclun, barley, calendula. AND barley, which I’m hoping the crows will mistake for boring old grass. Wonder if my parsnip seeds are duds or if their germination time is measured in, perhaps, geologic eras rather than day.17°C / 62°F
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22 Jun 2009Peppers and squash 2 Simplicity garden , Pepper, Anaheim (Providence A3) Transplanted, Pepper, Sweet Banana (Providence D4) Tran...I filled in the last three squares in my garden — both beds now have something (at least dead seeds) in every square. I bought three peppers (at $4 for 3 plants!) at the farmer’s market and one Oregon sweet meat squash. I planted all three peppers in the Providence bed, and will make ...17°C / 62°F
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