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One thing that’s showing consistent progress in my garden is sunflowers. I planted three varieties: Sunspot, Autumn Beauty, and Mammoth Grey Stripe.
I planted some in pots and particular other places, but because my raised garden beds are so meticulously geometrical, I thought some randomness needed to be thrown in. So I threw some [...]
I don’t know if I can bring myself to post pictures. I have no squash. I have a couple stubs of used-to-be squash.
When I first planted things, something (ground squirrels?) ate most of the greens, a good deal of the eggplant leaves, and some squash leaves. Then, things were left alone for the next [...]
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I knew that the melons had the yellow orange ‘moon and stars’, but I was surprised to see that the foliage has them too.
This one’s lagging behind a bit.
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It looks like I’m a couple days away from my first ‘harvest’. I should be able to get two or three zucchini off of this plant this week. I can’t wait.
Since I grew up not liking tomatoes, zucchini is what says ’summer garden’ to me. And the triple digits here sure make it feel [...]
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We moved into our house late winter 2000. I planted a row of asparagus crowns probably in the spring of 2001. It might have been 2002, but it wasn’t much later than that. I, of course, hadn’t harvested any asparagus that year. And then I started working full time AND going to school almost full [...]
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Still in catchup mode here…
I’ll start with one thing about me…
1. I’m a high-school teacher in a school where something getting tagged isn’t a good thing. It usually involves a permanent marker that both damages what’s been tagged and probably gets the tagger sort of high. (Resisting the urge to pull an image of tagging [...]
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A hummingbird I caught this morning. I should be posting a picture of something growing in my garden, because every time I walk out, the plants do look bigger and stronger. But I’m pretty happy with this pic. And I appreciate my fountain more and more.
(Now if I can just get the blogroll for [...]
I’ve been busy working outside. Not so busy taking pictures or writing. Time to play catchup. This is bed 1 (far) and bed 2 (near). This past weekend I replaced the drippers in bed 1 and finished the system in bed 2.
I also did bed 6.
Bed 6 gave me the roughest time, but I [...]
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I just killed two very big grasshoppers. I feel just awful. The first one was bigger. It may be the one that is in my flickr account. It was a fighter. It took a few swats. The second one was smaller and lighter.
I’m a terrible person. This stuff is hard.
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I guess I haven’t uploaded pictures yet. But I did ‘finish’ the irrigation on bed #1 the other day. I’ve sort of started on bed 2, but I’ll wait to talk about that one. I discussed the different types of drippers in my first irrigation post. I used the cheaper ones for the first bed [...]
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