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xan

xan's Experimental garden

Garden Type: Vegetable | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Combination I'm Organic!

  • 15 Mar 2009
    Reappeared! 1 Happy Late summer- carrot (chantenay) Breaking Dormancy, Experimental garden Sprouting, and Late summer- carrot (...
    I had mulched these quite heavily last fall, and lo and behold, they have sprouted through the mulch. Left mulch on for now, I’ll remove it after May 1, maybe a little earlier?
    Cloudy 12°C / 53°F
  • 23 Nov 2008
    Compost and mulch 2 Experimental garden and Compost pile
    Keeping the compostables in the freezer continues to be working just great. I can’t believe how quickly it composts. The stuff I put out a week ago was pretty well done. DD mowed on Thursday, so there was fresh grass and leaves on top which may have helped keep the top couple inches from...
    9°C / 48°F
  • 22 Nov 2008
    Frozen ground 1 Very Happy Late summer Turnips Harvesting and Experimental garden
    Never having left a harvest so long, I did not realize how quickly dirt freezes. it’s been quite cold all week, unseasonably so— lows overnight in the teens (-10C), highs barely into the 30s (2C). Yesterday when pulled the last beets the dirt under the mulch was loose and warm to th...
    Cloudy -4°C / 24°F
  • 22 Nov 2008
    Last harvest Happy Late summer beets (Wagon Wheel) Harvesting and Experimental garden
    These came out yesterday, fortunately, because this morning the ground was frosty and I wasn’t able to just pull the last of the root crops. (See Turnips journal) The ones left are too small, but the greens are still fine— it takes a lot of cold and frost to affect these leaves.
    Cloudy -4°C / 25°F
  • 14 Nov 2008
    Now it's about the soil Happy Experimental garden
    I was going to go ahead and harvest the beets, but the soil is still so warm and friable that I decided to leave them. I’ve got about 30 plants going; I’ll make Thanksgiving (11/28) my end date. Harvest or die! that Friday (since we’re having Thanksgiving at my sister’s ...
    Cloudy 11°C / 51°F
  • 13 Nov 2008
    November (!) Harvest 1 Happy Late summer beans Harvesting and Experimental garden
    Hard to see the scale, but they’re very small. The largest of the beans is about 2" long; I don’t think this beet is the largest I’ve got, but I didn’t pull these until I got home and it was pretty dark. I’ll pull some more tomorrow. I did finally just pull t...
    9°C / 49°F
  • 13 Nov 2008
    These are ex-bean plants Late summer beans Dying and Experimental garden
    Good run, guys. Always tough to be the subject of an experiment.
    Cloudy 9°C / 49°F

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