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Did my last bit of in house seed planting today – some runner beans, cucumbers and khuri squash, to give them a bit of a head start. It’s been so cold so far this Spring (we had snow last week!), they’ll probably need it.
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I’m late to note that the early seedlings were planted up two weekends ago now. They’re doing pretty well, other than the Swiss chard, which for some reason just isn’t doing quite so well this year. I do still have several left (the advantage of planting 12), but I may end up buying some seedlings
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Things are finally starting to green up in earnest – here’s my garlic. I was a little nervous – this is seed garlic I bought at the Bennington Garlic Festival. I was pretty sure garlic from upstate New York by way of Vermont would be fine over here in Maine, but I was
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Today’s exciting activity – clear out the iris! It’s amazing how much they’ve popped up already. All the herb pots are out of the garage. The chives are the only one showing any activity at the moment, but I imagine the rest will be coming along shortly.
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Doesn’t look like much right now, but round one of seeds are planted! This is Swiss chard, two kinds of basil, zinnias, two kinds of kale, calendula, leaf broccoli, regular broccoli, rudbeckia, dahlias (from seed!), two kinds of peppers, and two kinds of marigolds. We are still going to be able to do the
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Seeds are set for the year. The cucumbers are for BF – he thought they looked interesting. The kale came along with that, which was nice – it’s a variety I’ve thought about. The rest are flowers to intersperse with the veg I’ll be putting in the community garden. I have all that seed already.
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The community garden is officially put away for the season. Well, sort of. We have to clean up everything that needs to be cleaned up, and sign off on it by 11/1, and this being the last weekend before that date, I went ahead and pulled out everything that really needed to be pulled
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I dehydrated the Korean peppers yesterday – the kitchen smelled lovely. About fourteen peppers gave me a about a pint jar’s worth of dried shards. (Plus a little room for a desiccant pack – we’re paranoid.) We figure we’ll grind on demand. Not bad considering my yield this year wasn’t great. I’ve got basil
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The garlic is all cured, and cleaned up. The two varieties I grew were Duganski and German Red – I think the larger heads on the left are the German Red. Can’t wait to see how they taste. Conveniently, my last head of store garlic is just about out.