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Garden Updates August 2010: Tomatoes & Peppers
Sep 1, 2010 2:24
The summer gardening season definitely started out slow. It took forever for the tomato, pepper, and melon plants to get...
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Growing Tomato (& Tomatillos) from seed without artificial light (Pictorial)
Mar 21, 2010 19:47
Hey everyone, This will be my second year gardening and I decided to try growing plants from seed. Last year I mostly...
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2010 Garden: Planning in process
I just started receiving all the gorgeous catalogs and am so excited for my 2010 garden. I think I have decided what...
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Vegetable Garden Update: November 2009
Nov 15, 2009 1:33
I can’t believe we are still picking ripe tomatoes in November. Granted, they are not as sweet as they were in...
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Garden Update: August 23, 2009 (4 months)
Aug 25, 2009 21:10
I have started to neglect my garden as well as my blog. Having 2 boys under the age of 2 will do that to you. I barely have...
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More tomatoes
Aug 16, 2009 19:27
I really don’t get sick of taking pictures of my harvest. I am like a proud mother hen. I just think that vegetables...
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Ugliest Black Krim?
Aug 16, 2009 19:24
My Black Krim has been producing these big tomatoes. Some of them are quite interesting looking. I think they are beautiful...
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Salmon Nicoise Salad
Aug 16, 2009 19:18
Made this delicious salmon nicoise salad for the family on wednesday. It is a great way to showcase your harvest. I found...
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August 9, 2009 Updates
Aug 9, 2009 19:43
Sorry I have been too busy to update the blog. It has been a great season and we are harvesting and eating vegetables and...
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Tomato Harvest (3 months since plant out date)
Jul 26, 2009 21:21
It has been 3 months since I planted the garden and we are having great harvests so far. These are from the 6 tomato plants...
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Garden Update: July 25, 2009 (3 months)
Jul 26, 2009 19:35
Here is the 3 month garden update. Cinderblock garden: Is really taking off. The tomato plants are over 6 feet tall and producing...
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Garden Update: July 14, 2009 (2.5 months)
Jul 15, 2009 6:35
Just a little life update…our son was born last week. We are just so in love with our little guy. So far he is an easy...
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Lemon Cucumber: female blossom
Jul 15, 2009 6:25
It is petty easy to differentiate betwee the male and female blossoms if you know what to look for. This is a picture of...
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Tomato Update & Harvest: Stupice, Cherries, Oaxacan Jewel
Jul 15, 2009 5:47
Here are some tomatoes I picked the other mornng. They are Stupice, Sungold, Sun Sugar, and Sugar Snack. The cherry tomatoes...
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When life gives you lemons….or green tomatoes…
so I posted below about my son picking a green tomato off of my marvel striped plant. I was so disappointed because I could...
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Stupice FINALLY blushing!
Jul 6, 2009 2:40
The Stupice set fruit at the end of May and grew to about golfball size. They have not grown much bigger and have just been...
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Jack Strikes Again!
I was waiting for one of my bigger tomatos on the marvel striped to start ripening. It has turned from a darker green to...
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Hornworm infestation June 5, 2009
So a few days ago I found the hornworm below on my sungold in my cinderblock bed. Today when my husband and I were chilling,...
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Cherry Tomatoes are RIPE!
Jul 5, 2009 21:45
The Cherry Tomatoes are all ripe and have been for the last week or so. We have probably had about 15 ripe cherries so far...
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Lemon Cucumbers are HERE!
Jun 30, 2009 4:22
We never got around to building a trellis for our lemon cucumber. We have been so busy with parties, family and friend visits...
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The Garden Bad Guys (Hornworms & Cabbage Looper)!
Jun 29, 2009 20:44
The last couple of days I found these 2 caterpillars in my garden. I was looking over my sungold in my cinderblock garden...
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First Ripe Tomato of the Season: Sun Sugar
Jun 25, 2009 22:26
My Sun Sugar was the first to ripen. I am so excited to try it as it is supposed to be very sweet and yummy. My cherries...
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Cinderblock & Wood Garden Update: June 25, 2009 (2 months)
Jun 25, 2009 22:17
A brief 2 month Update. I am due any day now so it is very difficult to take pics. Here is the cinderblock garden. The sun...
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The good guys!
Jun 25, 2009 22:15
Went out this morning and this little (actually not so little) bee was pollinating my tomato, squashes, cucmbers, and melons. I...
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Oaxacan Jewel: Stubby little plant
Jun 25, 2009 22:11
This is my cute Oaxacan Jewel. It is such a stubby little plant. I think it is wider than it is tall and stands at about...
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Marvel Striped: Monster Plant & Prolific!
Jun 25, 2009 22:02
Marvel Stripe(d): This heirloom variety has become one of gardeners’ favorite bicolored tomatoes because of its beauty,...
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First Tomato Casualty: San Marzano & BER (Blossom End Rot)
Jun 25, 2009 21:37
Well, I had my first tomato casualty today. I was sort of expecting it as things have been going TOO smoothly in my garden....
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Tomato Update
Jun 17, 2009 21:47
Here is a small update…i will post a more detailed one next week. This is my stupice…yesterday part of it wilted...
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Neptune’s Harvest Fish Emulsion Time
It has only been 2 weeks since I last fertilized with EB Stone but I read to fertilize once you get fruitset on your tomato...
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Vegetable Garden Update June 7, 2009
Jun 7, 2009 21:20
Here is the vegetable garden update for June 7, 2009. It has been about 1.5 months since I put the planted out. Here is the...
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Tomato Fruitset Update: June 4, 2009
I just wanted to update on which plants have fruitset: Marvel Striped: has about 2 large babies. They are about the size...
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First Harvest: June 2, 2009
Well I harvested my first “veggies” from the garden. I wish i took pics but i was so excited to eat them that...
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Cocozelle Zucchini
May 30, 2009 16:19
I love this zucchini plant so far. It is a very vigorous grower and the flowers are gorgeous! Also, crossing my fingers but...
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Garden Update May 30, 2009
May 30, 2009 16:01
I know I just updated with pics one week ago but I just wanted to show how much growth can occur in such a short time. Here...
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Ace Pepper has a blossom!
May 23, 2009 21:24
My little ace pepper has a flower. This plant is so tiny compared to my tomato plants. It is only about 10 inches tall but...
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May 23, 2009: Time to Fertilize!
May 23, 2009 16:54
Well it has been 1 month since I last used fertilizer. I had put some Dynamite Mater Magic Tomato Food (5-5-9) in the planting...
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May 22, 2009: 1 Month progress
May 23, 2009 1:21
Well I guess today is a good day to show the progression of the garden. We planted out on April 23, 2009 and these pics were...
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Tomato Fruitset May 20, 2009 (less 4 weeks since plant out)
I just wanted to update on the tomato plants. Weather has been ideal for fruitset. Temps in the day are between 75-90 degrees,...
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Vegetable Garden update May 14, 2003: first tomato fruit set!!
May 15, 2009 3:30
It has been exactly 3 weeks since we planted in the garden beds. The poor little transplants looked so tiny and i was afraid...
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Vegetable Garden Planted April 23, 2009
May 15, 2009 2:24
I am late posting this but we planted our vegetable garden on April 23 and here are some pics. My wonderful husband built...
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Busy, Busy, Busy / Garden update
Well we finished our 2 raised beds and have been busy. We have been: composting up a storm planting seedlings. We planted...
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Mango Tree Update
I know i haven’t posted in awhile, but my mango trees are in a standstill. Luckily they have survived the cold winter...
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