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13 Nov 2009
Herb Box Plans - Feedback Please!!
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Deck Herb garden
11°C / 51°F
I’d love to hear some feedback on 3 deck-hung herb boxes I’m planning for next year. Unless otherwise noted, I plan to start plants from seeds indoors. I’m in Chicago (Zone 5b).
Each box will be about 48″ × 18″ and be arranged with a centerpiece plant and then...
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01 Nov 2009
Captain Obvious whispers - 'turn them sideways dopey!'
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Arbor garden
27°C / 81°F
Sometimes the obvious takes a while.
I’ve had these offcuts of 50mm mesh hanging around for a while, years in fact. They were leftovers reclaimed from some job that I can’t recall now, it was that long ago.. I’ve used them previously to cover seedlings from birds, cats and other...
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12 Nov 2009
Front yard
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Front yard garden
Overcast 16°C / 61°F
This was started about 11 years ago when I first moved in. It was a bare canvas so pretty much could put anything in. I started with plantings along the front of the house and have added to them over time. The old tree stump was killed years ago as its roots were playing havoc with the sewage so ...
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13 Nov 2009
photo update: fall colors and harvests
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Pepper 'Cayenne' , Green onion (2) Harvesting, Kale 'Red Winter' Harvesting, Mustard 'Southern Green Curled...
19°C / 67°F
I’ve saved all of my glass bottles and jars this summer for storing goodies in. I’ve chopped quite a bit of my herbs to store in the jars and came across a use for my cholula bottle. We love asian foods and for my hubby the hotter it is the better – as long as it has flavor (hea...
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13 Nov 2009
Garlic:That's it guys, I need the bed
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Garlic (Purple Monaro) Harvesting, Garlic (Oriental Purple) Harvesting, and Northern garden
Overcast 17°C / 63°F
The garlic are very close to their harvest date anyway and I need the bed so – Phtt! out they go.
No bulb weights as they still need to be dried off and checked out. but they come very close (if not more than :) what I planted so that’s fine by me, especially considering the bed got a...
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14 Nov 2009
What are these bugs? 9 Iris Established and Apt Windowsill garden
Cloudy 56°C / 133°F
I found these weird bugs on my iris plants that I recently brought inside before I move. They almost look like aphids, but they were pinkish-red…almost brown. I power-washed them off with the hose and squished the rest, but so I’m hoping I got them all. I went outside to check the ...
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15 Nov 2009
Roses
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Front yard garden
Overcast 16°C / 61°F
Just at the moment with all the fine weather we have been having, the roses are all out. I have 5 in total out in the front yard, 3 red, 1 white and 1 that comes out in orange/yellow with red edges. Just at the moment they look really nice.
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14 Nov 2009
In full Bloom
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Grevilla, Nastursiums etc Purchased and Backyard garden
21°C / 70°F
It does look really nice right now. It was one that my son had bought a few years back and we cut the centre leader stem out to make it bush out..
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14 Nov 2009
You thought you were done, didn't you
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Cabbage- Stonehead Harvesting, Broccoli Pinetree mix Harvesting, Broccoli, moved from 3 Sisters Harvesting,...
Sunny 18°C / 65°F
More fall clean up today, not so much because of stuff that really needed to get done, as because it is 70 degrees and sunny outside. Incredible. This extended nice weather is going to result in the cleanest, most prepped winter garden in years.
Swept off the porch and put away most of the rema...
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17 Nov 2009
Jumping Back In
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Sunny 3°C / 37°F
It’s been so long since I’ve logged on, that I had hundreds, no thousands of journals to read …eeeek! Lots of catching up to do! I’ve missed you guys!!!!
We’ve had a pretty crazy couple months with half the people we know being hospitalized for everything from hea...
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17 Nov 2009
Now with Summer looming.
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Front yard garden
22°C / 72°F
Its time to get mulching around the place. So far I have done the veg. patch, east side garden and now starting on the Front yard. Its been a combination of cardboard, newspaper, lawn clippings and seaweed. Although I haven’t finished yet, the gardens are starting to take shape and I am sta...
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19 Nov 2009
To Whom It May Concern, an Odd Day.
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It was a nice day. Sunny and warm for the time of year. Things progressed as normal until about 2. I never hear from family, but my brother called. He talked to me about all the family news, (really more than I needed to know) for 1 1/2 hours. My other brother in Mississippi had a 4 wheeler ...Sunny 12°C / 53°F -
19 Nov 2009
Chooks: Igor, fetch more lightning rods!
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Chooks: starting with eggs and The Chook's garden
Rainy 24°C / 75°F
Bugger.
Of the 12 eggs I’ll be lucky to get one, the rest are infertile. Igor has failed in his duties, he didn’t fetch enough lightning rods it seems.
Being a new mom I was unsure what to expect and while I’ve been candling the eggs and had my suspicions, I’ve been led as...
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15 Nov 2009
Fall cleanup
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Tiny Farm garden , Frontyard garden , and Leeks, Lancelot
Sunny 17°C / 62°F
Today was a beautiful day — sunny, warm and dry. So I cleaned up my front and back gardens.
In the front, I removed all the annuals — the nasturtiums, the marigolds, and the cleomes. I had meant to rent a chipper to shred my fall waste, but for various reasons I didn’t get it ...
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12 Nov 2009
Attack of the little green loopy worms!
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Cabbage - Early Jersey Under Attack, Broccoli - Di Ciccio Under Attack, Broccoli - Green Goliath Under Atta...
Sunny 16°C / 60°F
I’ve been battling cabbage loopers for the last several days. Twice a day, I have been picking them off and squishing the yucky things. Tonight I brought in the back up. I sprinkled DE all over the plants. After I did this (duh) I looked the creatures up in my buggy book and it says to ...
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