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29 Oct 2009Bag-ripening works for pumpkins too 3 Pumpkin WS 1110°C / 50°F
This pumpkin was half-green. Stuck it in a bag with a couple of apples (apparently for the ethylene gas), and voila. The toms are all bag ripened as well.
And yes, that is a reindeer made out of a wire hanger.
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26 Sep 2009Edibles, 9-26 5 Wagon Wheel garden , Pumpkin WS 11 Harvesting, Eggplant Black Beauty Harvesting, Bean- One Bean Chicago (Bl...19°C / 66°F
Prepped the Wagon Wheel for winter, including mapping out the paths for next spring; and planted the garlic. We should now have room for three wheelbarrows full of expanded pond (I hope). Legume/pod crops will go in the outer ring, toms/eggs/peppers in the middle companion planted with onions a...
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20 Sep 2009Pumpkin-palooza 2 3 Pumpkin WS 11That was fun. (link) Includes one dish made entirely from garden ingredients (kinda).19°C / 67°F
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19 Aug 2009Cucurbita, harvest and photo updates 4 1 Bean- One Bean Chicago (Blue Lake Pole) , Pumpkin WS 11 Setting Fruit, Pumpkin, indoor tray Harvesting, Swi...Overcast 22°C / 71°F
Second pumpkin vine death, but its pup was lovely; I’ll roast 2/3s of it for future pumpkin bread and put the rest in a turnip-potato-pumpkin mash. (Update: this size pumpkin, about 18" diameter, yielded 2 cups of pulp, just for future reference.)
Back in the Wagon Wheel, the Three S...
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19 Aug 2009Frustration turns to smiles 7 1 Pumpkin WS 11 Setting FruitOvercast 23°C / 74°F
A “why I love gardening” post.
F*cking client will not pop for the number of licenses needed for the database, so I couldn’t get on the database, which I have to be able to do to do my job. So I’m going to have to go in either tonight or very early (like 7 a.m.) tomorrow ...
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07 Aug 2009Race against time 2 9 Woodland garden , Three Sisters, their dog plus the neighbors garden , Pumpkin, indoor tray , and Pumpkin W...20°C / 68°F
I figured when I planted that I’d need 5 to 7 pumpkins to be able to can what I could use and had room for. Well, I got my 7 pumpkins, but it’s now a race against the powdery mildew. Just hoping the pumpkins ripen before the mildew kills the vines. I’ve treated and sprayed wi...
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30 Jul 2009Thwarting the evil furfaces 3 Pumpkin WS 11 Setting Fruit and Pumpkin, indoor tray Setting FruitAt 9 this morning on my way out the door found a new pumpkin. At 11 on my way back someone had taken a huge bite out of it (as well as knocking bricks over on my onions, and nibbling at one of the brandywines.) So I put chicken wire cages over all the pollinated fruits. We hates them!23°C / 73°F
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