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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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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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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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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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17 May 2009Whoops... 1 Balcony garden and Dill 'Fernleaf' Sprouting…forgot about this one!Sunny 12°C / 54°F

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