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Tomatoes UP!! Oh yeah, Baybee!
There is nothing like planting seeds and seeing them come up. Oh yeah!! This tomato is a variety called Tumbling Tom and was developed specifically for hanging basket growing. Yes, even though here at...
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Catching Up
I’m not going to make any excuses for ‘being away’, but let’s just say that it’s been a miserable spring. Miserable weather-wise and miserable in many other ways which made me frankly not in the mood...
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Pinched
“Rosa whispered again, “Willy, you did squeeze me, so I will pinch you.” And she pinched. “Ow!Who pinched me?” said Cousin Joan. “Oh, Joan!” said Rosa. “I wanted to pinch Willy, not you.” “And she...
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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!!
Well, things are really starting to take off here at the garden. Plants IN the garden itself have had sort of a rough time of it – lots of rain and the weather has not been very warm or sunny. And yet...
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E-scape to the wild side
If you do your shopping at farmers markets or even perhaps a fancy local grocery, you might be seeing these particular items now or in the near future. They are called ‘scapes’ and are a clever...
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Garden Journal
At this point, we are entering ‘high summer’ here and things are, shall we say, disappointing. It was a rainy and cold spring. And, it’s become a rainy and chilly late spring and then it warmed up a...
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Evaluating veggies
It’s always good to take a look at what’s happening to the vegetables in the garden as well — where are they in terms of development? If they aren’t where you think they should be at this point...
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Purple peppers and other garden notes
Although we really are coming into our gardening season where the veggies are really starting to produce, produce, produce, there are a couple of things which are starting to wind things down. Like...
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Garlic Number 2
So, the garlic harvest and testing keeps rolling along. This is the second variety to mature and is called “Vietnamese Red” (because of the skins on the cloves are a purplish color). Now, even while...
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Evaluating Tomatoes – and other things
Well, your old Aunty got skunked. Oh yes I did. My fault, completely – nothing like saving tomato seeds and then not labeling them properly. Somehow ‘Paste Tomatoes from 2014″ just doesn’t cut it...
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