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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, [...]

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, [...]

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