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21 Nov 2009

Houseplants and clean windows 2 Amaryllis Picotee Repotted, Begonia , and Winter garden

This continuing warm weather (supposed to finally break on Wednesday) means that the begonias in the front boxes have not died as expected. I usually let begonia go, never bring them in because I’m not all that crazy about them. The just look good on my porch because of the bright light c...

Sunny 11°C / 52°F

15 Nov 2009

Bloom Day and houseplants update 2 1 Caladium , Herb- Rosemary Pruning, Streptocarpus Blooming, Bell Pepper, probably jalapeno hybrid Moved, Th...

Some successes and some failures. The nearly dead caladium is back; it really wanted sunlight (oddly). The rosemary, however, seems to have died. I think my mistake was putting it on the radiator. While I did remember to keep it moist, it was just too warm. Last year I kept it in the greenhou...

Cloudy 7°C / 44°F

28 Oct 2009

Winter Garden Baseline 5 1 Thanksgiving cactus Budding, Streptocarpus Blooming, White Geranium Blooming, Coleus, three varieties , and...

Well, I probably should have done the baseline before I managed to kill any plants. Oops. Here’s the rundown Dining Room: • Bell Pepper. This is the Not-a-Jalapeno after all hybrid from luvmygarden (one of them was a jalapeno, the other this jala-colored-but-bell-flavor). It’s bloo...

14°C / 58°F

10 Oct 2009

Creating the indoor garden 3 Winter garden , Papyrus (dwarf) Moved, Red Star Moved, Caladium Moved, White Geranium Moved, Coleus, three ...

Just 3 pots still outside. The chocolate mint, which refuses to be dislodged, it’s so root bound, a hen-and-chicks, and the ivy/lysimachia which are decorating the new pond so it has some green. The peppermint was a nightmare to get out of the 22" glazed. It had actually sent tap roo...

Cloudy 8°C / 47°F

01 Jun 2009

Wintersowing Review 2 Winter garden

Katxena’s excellent review of her wintersowing experience prompted me to put this all in one place. A lot of it is in various journals, and I had also written myself some instructions via “Tasks” but it was so nice to see it all laid out, I thought I’d copycat her. Like K...

24°C / 75°F

28 May 2009

I want there to be sprouts 4 2 Herb- Taragon Sprouting, Herb- Chamomile, German Sprouting, Herb- Parsley, Italian Sprouting, Corn, Country...

I’m so bored with the weather. It’s so cool still- dipping to 50 at night, low 60s and overcast all day. It’s slowing everything down. I was going to wait until the next sunny warm day, when all these sprouts that are just barely peeking through the soil would be more sure of...

13°C / 55°F

25 May 2009

Solanum seedling update, plus 4 Tomato- Heirloom Black Potting Up, Tomato, Mortgage Lifter WS 8 Potting Up, Tomato- Black Krim Potting Up, ...

Potted up the biggest Toms and Eggies, found a Mortgage Lifter that I didn’t know had sprouted, so now I have two. One more week under the grow lights, then a week hardening off. Put them in the ground June 6. Gave them all some bone meal and a nice little drink of seaweed extract (also ...

14°C / 57°F

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