Gardening Journals
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18 May 2013
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With the rain comes bird life...
Birds and Messmate Farm gardenClear 9°C / 48°FAccording to the trusty Field guide to the Birds of Australia by Graham Pizzey (and our interpretation) these cheeky little things are the Superb Blue Wren, as described at Wikipedia and with loads of pictures here. Not much blue colouring in the males – except the tail – but thatR...
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Native garden , laburnum Blooming, butterbur (petasites hybridous) Blooming, and meadow sage Blooming
17
May
2013
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6°C / 43°FIt’s cold (6° C) and rainy also today. The vegetable garden must wait! All around, the vegetation, although late, is following its cycle. 1) laburnum 2) saponaria 3) anemoides nemorosa 4) heliantenum nummularium 5) petasites
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18
May
2013
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Snow 2°C / 36°FSnow. It snowed from 1pm yesterday to about 1pm today. Stuck to the grassy areas, but it is almost melted. More of emotional mayhem than anything else. I usually plant out by now, but with it getting below freezing every night, I haven’t even started to harden off. Perhaps this week com...
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21
May
2013
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Yesterday I got a little ahead of the weather and planted a majority of my peppers and three tomatoes out in the Northwest Kitchen bed. My excitement for the warm temperatures was a little premature. I should’ve checked the predictions since it will be down in the mid-40s on Wednesday and T...Clear 28°C / 82°F -
Corner garden
19
May
2013
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Sunny 13°C / 55°FIt was a beautiful day, so, after working the vegetable garden, I decided to turn my attention here. It took about two hours to clean the weeds and last year’s dead fall. I pulled out lots of Creeping Charlie runners and had to use a shovel to dig out four Rose of Sharon suckers that had go...
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22 May 2013
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Covered 10'x40' Tomato Hoophouse
Glass Greenhouse garden and Hoop-House Hardening gardenScattered Clouds 19°C / 66°FI finally got the covering on my tomato hoophouse. I had my neighbor friend come over and my wife pitched in. I still have to pull all the wrinkles out and install the final batons.
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Lily of the Valley Blooming, Daisy (Ox-eye) Budding, Ajuga Blooming, Columbine-mixed Blooming, Iris, rebloo...
19
May
2013
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Mostly Cloudy 30°C / 86°FLife has its moments One blooms while one fades away Petals on the ground
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Porch Bed garden , Marigold Transplanted, Calendula - Dark Orange Transplanted, Sage Transplanted, Pepper '...
20
May
2013
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I continued digging on the second potager (I daydream it’s a potager, while in reality it’s a cute garden with tiny rows of stuff not so artistically designed) today and even transplanted some of my peppers, tomatoes, and herbs. I’ve been able to check of several flats of items ...Scattered Clouds 29°C / 85°F -
Tomato 'Black Cherry' Under Attack, Tomato 'Sunsugar' Under Attack, and Tomato 'Blondkopfchen' Under Attack
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May
2013
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Scattered Clouds 29°C / 84°FWent out to harvest the cherry tomatoes that are just starting to blush and damnit if I didn’t come across the first leaf footed bug nymphs of the season. I hate leaf footed bugs and their little buddies the nymphs! They are an ongoing nemesis throughout the season but I’ve got the u...
