Garden journals
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Jerusalem artichoke Harvesting
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May
2013
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had a full afternoon creating a new raised potato bed. previous one worked well as a 1 x1x1 metre box. nice fist sized potatoes and some smaller ones to balance. have moved a lot of soil to create a flat site out of the way of the new covered area that will be constructed over the majority of th...Cloudy 10°C / 50°F -
11 May 2013
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NDSU Garden Variety Trials 2013
NDSU Coronado Crown Broccoli Sprouting and NDSU Packman Broccoli SproutingThe germination rates for the Packman and the Coronado Crown broccolis are about the same. Out of 6 each, 3 Packmans are up (two yesterday, one today), and 2 Coronado Crowns (yesterday). Three each are outside in the garden (an experiment), and three are inside in the AeroGarden (the indoor ones ...Clear 16°C / 61°F -
Tomato 'Lemon drop' , Cucumber 'Russian pickling' , Cucumber 'Parisian Pickling' , Cucumber 'Lemon' , Tomat...
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Got the Trial seeds yesterday, planning on planting the watermelon (inside) today or tomorrow. The broccoli also, but will be direct-seeded. Dan’s building another couple of garden boxes currently. They’ll be on legs, hopefully high enough to keep the sheep out. Of the seeds we’...Clear 15°C / 59°F -
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NDSU Garden Variety Trials 2013
We have elected to participate in the Trials again this year. We have chosen #3 Purple Beans (Royal Burgundy vs. Velour), #4 Vegetable Soybeans (Envy vs. Midori Giant), #7 Broccoli (Coronado Crown vs. Packman), #11 Yellow Carrots (Chablis vs. Yellow Sun), #46 Shelling Freezer Peas (Early Frosty v...Mostly Cloudy 11°C / 52°F -
Cucumber x Country Dying, Okra Clemson Spineless Dying, and Square Foot garden
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Apr
2013
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Partly Cloudy 15°C / 59°FDoing some maintenance in the gardens today. Watering, weeding, thinning (carrots and parsnips). I noticed that a most of my broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and okra transplants were all lying down. They look like I either didn’t plant them deep enough or they were too leggy from the in...
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Mar
2013
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Indoors 19°C / 67°FTonight was the beginning of my girlfriend and my first garden. We live in a old converted factory building where soil is virtually non existent, so our first garden will be largely indoors and all in container. Our goal is to grow everything organic. The veggies in our sights thus far are tomato...
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Patio Conatiners garden
27 Mar 2013
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Clear 11°C / 52°FMy 2013 garden is in full swing! I’m happy that I chose a lot of perennials last year when I started gardening last year. All most all of them have made it to this spring with no problems, including some petunias that I nursed through the winter. All of my Osteospermums are blooming with a ...
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Seed Starter garden
23 Mar 2013
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Since I have more than a dash of OCD (and being completely ignorant of anything related to gardening) I had it in my head that I needed to start all of my seeds at the same time. It wasn’t until I had everything purchased that I bothered to do any research and learned that seeds need to be ...Overcast 4°C / 39°F -
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Mar
2013
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Clay Soil gardening: Do's and Dont's
Wisdom about what works & what doesn’t work well in Clay gardens, gathered over 3 decades: Don’t: Till, which includes Aggressive or Frequent Digging. “Digging aggressively” and working the soil often can be harmful to clay soil’s fertility, just like tilling c... -
Aloe vera Pruning and Square foot Garden garden
17
Feb
2013
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Windy 17°C / 63°FSince the weather was bearable today. Even though the weather was overcast and windy it was 63 F and I hurt my rotator cuff, I decided to clean up my square foot garden. Last year, I used newspaper to prevent weeds. Apparently, I did not use enough because I was weeding like crazy last year. So ...
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17
Feb
2013
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The garden planting calendar shows all planting times are now earlier! Combined it with planting by the moon days. Today I planted seeds for above ground crops in the long raised bed: Lettuce, arrugala, watercress, spinach, snap peas, garden cress. Last week (2/12/13) first day of weeding, cleani... -
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Feb
2013
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Jackie from school gave me small clusters of aloe to plant. Two of the four have been planted in the herb garden. Fingers crossed.Sunny 21°C / 70°F -
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Jan
2013
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I planted a small potted prostrate rosemary today. The other rosemary appears to be taking well to the new bed. I see the beginnings of echinacea sprouts. Dill is also beginning to show and all the new sprouts look green and healthy.Rainy 10°C / 50°F -
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Dec
2012
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There are very small indications of the dill and cilantro. The weather has been cooler at night and we covered the beds.Sunny 13°C / 55°F -
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Dec
2012
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I planted, by seed: Echinacea purpea Bee Balm Cilantro Dill and planted small pots of oregano Lemon Balm and planted a potted Rosemary that has been struggling In large clay pots I planted seeds of Common Thyme Garden SageSunny 16°C / 60°F
