It’s been about 2 1/2 weeks since I planted and this last week really started showing a difference. I took down the walls o’ water because the tomatoes were reaching the top and touching the sides of the walls. I …
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Garden 2020
It’s that time of year again! I spent Mother’s Day weekend cleaning up the beds, weeding, adding dirt and planting. It was pretty warm for a May afternoon and the garden was a hot mess but it needed to get …
A few lessons I learned my first two years of gardening
I’ve learned much over the course of the last two years in regards to planting and keeping up with a garden. My first year – although I did a lot of reading and planning before planting anything it just didn’t …
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Garden Update for 9-1-19
Another month has flown by and my garden is definitely showing signs of winding down and preparing for fall. My zucchini leaves were covered with that gray mildew you seem to always get later in the season but I did …
Garden Update – July 31st
Garden on July 31st.Wow what a difference a few weeks make. It’s finally been getting a little warmer here so my plants are really taking off. I’ve harvested a bunch of zucchini and cucumbers already and I don’t think we …
Welcome to my 2019 Garden
So this is my second year at gardening. Hopefully I learned a few things from my experience last year. We were definitely overcrowded last year so to remedy that I added an extra 4 x 12 raised bed. We’ve even …
Garden Update
Here it is August already. I’ve had a decent harvest so far but maybe not quite as much as I had hoped. With two zucchini plants and three yellow squash I really thought I’d have a bit more. Maybe it …
Can I overcome my black thumb and have a successful garden?
So after 30 years or so of moving every 3-4 years I finally have a place to call my own. The first thing my daughter and I did was start talking about a garden. Oh, such grand plans we had …
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The Failed Romaine Regrowth
A while back I told you about this romaine lettuce experiment I was trying out. I have been taking pictures every morning to track the growth of my romaine hearts. I have four going, all started only a few days …
A Little of This and a Little of That 