Pea flowers

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What a different a heat wave makes – my peas are finally blooming (and half of those are already pods now – it’s been freaking hot).     I will totally plant these again.    The flowers are so pretty, and they’ve topped out at about waist height.   Here’s hoping they taste good too! The chamomile […]

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Community garden bed

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Had my first two harvests over last weekend – more salad turnips than you can shake a stick at, and the first load of kale.    I have about a half dozen turnips left in the ground that were a bit smaller.     They should be ready in a week or so.    Turns out

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Community garden plot

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Both gardens are planted up – I had a marathon afternoon after work yesterday.   Both the community garden bed and side garden are now pretty much crammed with stuff. I do still have a few lavender plants to put out, and I think I’m going to try and get the tomato cages out at least,

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peas

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Well, the iris are budding now, so that’s a better sign for this weekend.   I may manage to actually plant out the main parts of both gardens, though based on the forecast, that might need to be on Friday. I did go over to the community garden plot and put out shallots and the remaining

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Seedling haul

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For reasons that will be discussed later, I did my plant shopping at the Farmer’s Market this weekend.    So, I have two Baron poblano peppers, three tomatoes (Sun Gold, Purple Russian and Early Girl), oregano and regular basil in the hoop house now.    Parsley and thyme are in the garden. Since it’s been

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Seedlings

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Most of the plants are out in the back yard, hardening off.    It’s probably going to be a while to finish that process – it’s been surprisingly cool.    We’ll get one random day in the 70s, and then it’s only in the 50s for the next three or four days.     I can’t

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Side garden

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This morning, I did a ton of work on the side garden.   The daffodils have already gone by (courtesy of one day in the 80s last week), so I trimmed those back, along with some other detritus from the Fall. I also took out most of the large containers and topped them off with compost,

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Community Garden bed

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It doesn’t look like much, but I did my first planting in the community garden plot on Monday – peas and turnips. There’s a little weirdness going on – someone seems to have decided to spring clean my bed.     We have our kick off meeting on Sunday, so I’m hoping to have that cleared

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Crocus

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The snow’s melting, and the crocus are up!   (They’ve probably been up for a week, but we’ve had two snow storms (yes, it is April) over the past week, so pictures weren’t easy to get. So I knew I was growing way more seedlings than I did before, so I bought another grow light.   

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Clivia

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One of my clivia is finally blooming – for the first time in about five years, I think.   I’d really missed them – it’s such a nice sign of things to come this time of year. In other news, my seedlings are doing really well – I need to get a bunch of them into

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