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Gardening

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Today in pictures

May 26, 2008 1 min to read

As promised, here’s some pictures of the garden’s progress. Potatoes. In front (bottom) are the 3 russets from organic store bought potatoes. The rest are reds from seed potatoes. I …

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Little update

May 23, 2008 1 min to read

The garden is doing super. Though I keep leaving the tomatoes out too long while hardening them off and they’re protesting with pale leaves and slowed growth, but still plugging …

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24 hours in a garden

May 20, 2008 1 min to read

The heat finally left us and we were greeting to wonderfully rainy, 55 degree weather this morning. I was thrilled. So with the rain, I didn’t bother watering today and …

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*Emerges from the sweltering heat* (with pictures!)

May 18, 2008 2 min to read

I haven’t succumbed from the heat yet. The garden hasn’t either. It’s coming along quite well actually, everything is sprouted and doing well except the cucumbers, who I think just …

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Soaker hoses and mistaking radishes for carrots and pests, oh my

May 14, 2008 3 min to read

So the whole soaker hose/clay soil thing isn’t working as well as I thought it would. The area we planted the taters and corn in is lower then the rest, …

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Slow Blog Day

May 13, 2008 1 min to read

Sorry for the lack of bloggage – I finally was able to get busy with work and have been working and grocery shopping and other inside household stuff today. We …

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Water issue and heat

May 12, 2008 1 min to read

So the soaker hose in clay soil is a precarious dance of getting enough water and not forgetting about it and flooding the whole potato crop in the process. Time …

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Aerial view of the garden & grapes and blueberries, oh my!

May 9, 2008 1 min to read

I finally got some soaker hoses to try out. I didn’t have enough to do the entire garden so I did some research on soaker hoses and watering methods to …

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Today in the garden, I found

May 7, 2008 2 min to read

Potatoes sprouting! At least two! I actually had to dig a little to find it, they’re kinda growing level with the ground and a little bit up. One russet and …

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Jumping up and down squealing

May 6, 2008 0 min to read

We have corn, we have corn, we have corn!!!! Eeeeeee!!!! Corn is the veggie I’m most excited to grow and I was so worried I wouldn’t even see a sprout! …

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Sprout and seedling pictures

May 5, 2008 2 min to read

[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere] Lots of pictures here! I also replanted the early girl tomatoes in individual pots and will let …

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New life

May 5, 2008 1 min to read

There are oodles of purple radish sprouts now, plus the spinach is making an appearance. I’m definitely going to have to thin the white radish, there’s just tons of them. …

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