Fall journals
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Oct
2012
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Acorns & pecans Driving me Nuts
Native Live Oak in lawn x1 Harvesting, Texas Live Oak along street x3 Harvesting, and Pecan HarvestingWay more acorns being dropped all over my front yard and driveway than I expected. So many that my car actually skids on the acorns due to lack of traction unless they are swept off the concrete! I’ve spent several hours sweeping acorns, and there are still several hundred acorns in my tre... -
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me--Nov bloom day
foxglove Blooming, laceleaf maples Changing Colour, nasturtium whirlybird Blooming, winter flame maple Chan...Clear 3°C / 37°FStill no killing frost and there are plenty of late summer blooms, but the fall colors on a sunny morning are almost too brilliant to bear. Bloom day badge goes to a volunteer magenta foxglove—because these are such attractive weeds.
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insane raspberries Fruiting, aronia Changing Colour, flowering plum Changing Colour, pink dogwood Changing ...
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Light Rain 16°C / 61°FBloom day in October comes during that colorful collision between late summer blooms and early fall color, as well as the start of the rainy season after 3 months of dryness. We are still harvesting summer vegetables, with zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant and corn finally ripe. I’m giving the ...
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Backyard Vegetable garden
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Oct
2012
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Windy 21°C / 70°FAs we move into Fall, my garden has continued its transition from not only another growing season, but another season of change – downsizing. Today, after harvesting and removing this season’s plants; I removed another raised bed, leveled the backyard and re-seeded the ground with gra...
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05 Oct 2012
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McIntosh Apple Harvest continues
Backyard Trees garden and McIntosh Apple HarvestingOvercast 3°C / 37°FWe’re whittling away at the apples on the tree, one or two buckets at a time. For Harvest Day, I picked two buckets full, plus enough to refill any dents we had put in the other baskets in the garage from donating apples to our neighbor. We’ve been skirting the frosts, and although we...
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Humbling, to live with so much beauty and abundance
apple trees Harvesting, fireweed Seeding, and apple HarvestingClear 13°C / 55°FThis time of year is so overwhelming, with the back to class rush, the eager young faces, so little time and yet so much to do. We have had no significant rain in 2 and a half months, but still nature is offering so much. Trees are turning fantastical colors, and bearing fruit at the same time. W...
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Oct
2012
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Fall is upon us. The beautiful color of the changing of the seasons. All shades of Gold, Brown, Red and Orange surround us, with the occasional green still showing, and the evergreens of course, stay with us through the icy, cold breathe of winters grip. The wind whistles through the leaves, m...Cloudy 7°C / 45°F -
White Dawn Rose Bush Blooming, Sedum Blooming, and Mums, Pom Pom varieties, 2 colors x 4 Blooming
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2012
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2012
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Beauty in the midst of awful drought.
Mums, Pom Pom varieties, 2 colors x 4There are two main flower beds in my front yard. A third still needs much work. But the two that are sort of center pieces I have been flooding, along with my veggie garden, several times a week. Every day at the hottest portion of the summer. The flowers are from my front beds. I also have ...
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Aug
2012
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Chiltepin pepper to keep the birds off the tomatoes 2 vine tomatoes, Black Krim and Matt’s Wild 1 cherry tomato, Dona 1 Jalapeno Cucumber seeds – Homemade Pickles Cucumbers also started herb garden, 1 Sweet Aussie Basil 1 Italian Oregano 1 Berggarten SageStorms 37°C / 99°F -
evergreen huckleberry Harvesting and Sunshine Blue Harvesting
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Overcast 2°C / 35°F“Does it ALWAYS rain so much?” asked our Italian exchange student a week ago. Some nature spirit must have heard her because a record high pressure has settled in for the past week, bringing cold foggy mornings and cool partly sunny afternoons. Only 2 nights of killing frost so far t...
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SneIrish' Christmas Cactus Blooming
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Cloudy 14°C / 58°FWell the first of the Christmas Cactus has bloomed! Too bad it didn’t make it in time for the November Bloom Day. I bet it will be all done by the time Decembers Bloom Day rolls around. :) If you would like to interest your children in growing things, I think that this would be the best w...
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Killing frost, right on schedule
kinnickkinnick Growing, ladies eardrops Blooming, borage Dying, nasturtium whirlybird Dying, old secrets g...Cloudy 6°C / 43°F
got down to 28 last night.
Probably the end of the dahlias, borage, and nasturtiums for the year.
I brought the woolly blue curls inside friday, but put them back out today.
Next week: warmer, but major rain storm predicted, flooding and landslides possible.
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Fatsia Japanese aralia Blooming, parahebe catarractae Blooming, virginia creeper Changing Colour, old se...
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Cloudy 9°C / 49°FThe leaves, not flowers, are the star of the garden show these days. I’m not the only one who is constantly getting my breath taken away. That it has hardly been raining, at least by Seattle winter standards, is the talk of the town. We do get great fall color but it is usually too rainy f...
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insane raspberries Pruning, insane raspberries Harvesting, wildlands garden , berry garden , alpenweiss map...
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Sunny 11°C / 52°F
I could not have asked for a better day. Here in Seattle it always astounds us when the sun comes out in November. Even better—sun on a Saturday when i am working in the garden. The fall colors are stunning in the sunshine.
Today I dug up a strip of lawn to widen the border to make more ro...
