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August 2011
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A little food garden update:
Corn is dead. *sadface*
I’m harvesting about 12 peppers a day from the serrano plant. I can’t keep up, since each day I find about 4 red ones.
Potatoes are…well, I don’t know what’s going on there. The leaves were attacked and eaten the same time my mesclun, lettuce and mustards were raided.
Aunt Ruby’s German Green tomatoes were...
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I’ve been planting in containers since I was a child and can still be reminded of these. I made a couple of big mistakes recently.
Avoid containers with narrow openings.
Cheap plastic pots may deteriorate in UV sunlight and terracotta pots dry out rapidly. Glazed ceramic pots are excellent choices but require several drainage holes. Wooden containers are susceptible to rot. Redwood and...
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TEAM PROCRASTINATION: Onions →
teamprocrastination:
I picked all of the onions from my garden. Even the ones that were small and not exactly… ready. I washed them and peeled them and washed them again.
When will I finish them all?
I got really excited about the peeling and now some are even smaller than before. They were al dirty when I…
=D It’s okay. Dirt is fine. I don’t think I’ve ever peeled...
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Dear bees, you rule. Love, me.
asterismic:
Seven new tomatoes have set since the last time I checked, three on the determinate plant, and four on the indeterminate. And still so many blossoms. September better be warm or I’m hosed!
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July 2011
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It may be a first for me. I had a gardening nightmare. No. Really
[Watery background fade in to dream sequence.]
I was awakened by a child. “Mama, we cleaned the yard!” Apparently, while I napped the family took it upon themselves to be productive.
I walked outside, pulled by the hand the little imp.
I crossed the threshold, look across my tiny lot and saw…nothing. Well,...
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