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Garden Diary: Fruit! At Last!

So I was sitting in my office chair, looking out the window at the big girl tomatoes blooming like crazy from the upside down pot and suddenly let out a shriek:
“Tomatoes! There are tomatoes on the Roma!” I yelled excitedly.
Sure enough, two little Roma tomatoes are hanging there, about an inch and a [...]

Garden Diary: This, That, and the Other

All the big girl tomatoes are blooming. The Roma, on the other hand, isn’t looking so good. I’m not sure, but I think it might be too cool for it, so far: today’s high 24°C. In fact, a neighbor of ours has beautiful heads of cabbage that are happy as-all-get-out, [...]

Garden Diary: Rain That Won’t Go Away

About a week ago, I started a more intensive watering regimen for the plants, and saw immediate results. All the plants shot up, some nearly doubling in size.
I haven’t watered in three days: the rain has been nearly torrential! As a result, the mustard greens have shot up to nearly 6 inches, as [...]

Garden ALERT: Moth Larvae!

So I was watering the plants this evening (I try to water right around the time when the sun is setting, then later, more or less in the middle of the night… that way the plants get watered regardless of whether or not anyone else remembers, or I’m at work or something) and I noticed [...]

Gardening Diary: Big Girls and Wildflowers

Well, we planted our Big Girls yesterday, planting two upside-down in one of the usual reusable grocery bags, and one right-side up in a corner of the mustard greens pot: nothing had quite taken there, I’m hoping the tomato won’t be quite so picky.
We struggled a little when it came time to hang our two [...]

Garden Diary: Summer is HERE!

Whew did it ever get HOT today! Temperatures reached a sizzling 31 ° Celsius (that’s somewhere in the 90’s, for the non-metrically inclined). Literally overnight, we went from spring to summer.
Most of our plants showed signs of drying out as a result, so we ended up watering at high noon, generally a big no-no, [...]

Garden Diary: Simple Kitchen Composting

Way back on March 30th, as hinted at in my “How I Built up my Planters” post, I also started a compost bin. (Just for the record, I wasted no time: since I’d brought it up, I went ahead and did it right away!) Using an ordinary, plastic, kitchen trash can, it was the easiest [...]

Garden Diary: Trouble in the Herb Garden

My cilantro and my basil, both planted in the same pot along with some tarragon, are in trouble: both are looking rather pale and “peaked”. In fact, the cilantro has some blotches on it, and the basil appears to be drying out on the stem.
I checked to make sure the soil is [...]

Garden Notes: Summer Savory

Just a very quick note.
I was considering the possibility that I had lost the summer savory (again!) and was going to seed them again, when I realized there is one single, solitary shoot right in the middle of my pot! All might not be lost.
Another thing: the transplanted tomatillos have managed to sprout more [...]

Garden Diary: Flavored Oils and Vinegars

Today, Easter Sunday, was such a gorgeous day!
After two days of rain (including a very scary night during which we were under a tornado watch, and the tornado siren actually went off), the weather turned picture-perfect: sunny, not a cloud in the sky, temperatures reaching 70°. While I was at work, the girls decorated [...]

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