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Tater blooms and other eye candy

June 16, 2008 1 min to read

As requested, the russet potatoes in bloom (these are the organic store bought ones, the red seed potatoes I got aren’t too far behind): While I was outside I wanted …

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Holding steady

June 15, 2008 1 min to read

There hasn’t really been much to blog about. I’m back to watering, the rain went away again. The weather’s perfect, been about 70 so not too hot. Everything is growing …

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And for a sixth post today

June 8, 2008 2 min to read

I don’t normally break up a day’s information into multiple posts, but I wanted to try it out today. Other then Blotanical only seeing the latest 2, I like it …

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The corn and the carrots

June 8, 2008 0 min to read

Sounds like a book. This is the biggest corn so far…a few not far behind…they’re all out of seedling stage but some much smaller. 4 got trampled by a 2 …

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Awww

June 8, 2008 0 min to read

It’s so little and cute :)

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Taters

June 8, 2008 0 min to read

May 26: Today:

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New Pea Trellis

June 8, 2008 0 min to read

Went to Lowes today and got a couple 10′ lengths of board and redid the peas. They are much happier (and taller!) now. It was delicate work removing the old …

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More lessons from the field

June 7, 2008 1 min to read

continuing on a previous post…. Pea and bean trellis needs to have vertical lines to climb the best. And “garden twine” from Lowes is crap. Look at it wrong and …

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There’s things growing!!!

June 6, 2008 1 min to read

I was feeling rather guilty, not checking on the garden today, so I bundled up (it was like 55F out – how did I manage living in sub-zero Idaho for …

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Evil weeds must DIE

May 31, 2008 1 min to read

It’s becoming oddly satisfying ripping weeds out. I went out and weeded and watered the garden but still had the urge to rip up the little yard-wrecking (they’re the spiny …

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Lessons from the field

May 29, 2008 1 min to read

errr, garden. This will likely become a page all to itself, depending on how much I find I’ve learned. To start, I have learned the peas need very little nitrogen. …

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The good kind of tired

May 27, 2008 2 min to read

Most days I’m tired but it’s not a satisfying kind of tired. Today however, hoo-boy. My to do list was fairly simple: mow the lawn and transplant the tomatoes and …

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