Side Garden

Garden Notes

The pot farm is doing well – my tomato plant actually has flowers, and the cilantro is looking lush and lovely. I could totally use it in recipes right now. I seem to have hit the right size for herb pots – none of them are drying out after only one day. The BF provided […]

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CSA Haul

CSA 2011, Week 2

This week’s haul was more turnips, mesclun, spinach, a head of lettuce, and Swiss chard. The turnips also have greens this week, which is pretty exciting (I love baby turnip greens). I also got a few more radishes out of the garden. There are couple left in the pot, with lovely greenery, but next to

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Side container garden

Garden Notes

I’m really not sure where the weekend went, gardening-wise. I did manage to get everything potted up (four bags of potting soil later – I usually do one and half a year…) Here’s my biggest experiment: From left to right are the tomato, pepper, and Swiss chard. Since the Swiss chard was a whim, I’ll

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Garden Haul 2011

Garden Notes

Yesterday afternoon, since it was actually sunny out (rarer than you’d think, this year), and to anticipate the Memorial Day weekend crowd, I stopped off at the garden center after work. The haul is above. It’s pretty herb heavy – I’ve decided to try one of seemingly everything in pots in the garden, so to

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muscari

Garden Notes

My favorite bulbs – grape hyacinths (muscari) – are out. I even have a white one this year, though of course, I can’t get it to photograph correctly. I’ll have to try again if it manages to survive the next couple days of rainy weather. I have no idea why I love these guys so

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daffodils

More Spring!

After yesterday’s torrential rain, the daffodils are now out! And, I had to take my plants out of the garage on Tuesday when I discovered that the bleeding heart was sprouting. Before too much longer, I’ll be able to sow some cool weather seed crops. Yay Spring!

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daffodils pushing out of the ground

Garden Notes

I came back from Florida bitten hard by the gardening bug. The transition from zone 10b to 5b is not terribly kind, and I came back to a really bleak landscape. Fortunately, it being Spring now, Mother Nature is at least attempting to please me. The above is my side garden, with bulbs very happily

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