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Butterfly Garden Update (Zinnias and Marigolds) 2008-07-13 11:42:00
My black-eyed susans and purple cone flowers didn't survive being transplanted after being moved from the PC Grow Box, but the Zinnias and Marigolds are doing just fine. Even have had some sightings of a few butterflies unfortunately none have stuck around long enough to get a photo, guess there is still lots of summer left this year.
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How to water your garden 2008-07-12 19:01:00
Many people may look at the topic of this post and think how basic a topic this is. The reality is proper water
ing is the most difficult part of growing a garden. The challenge ensures in the fact that roots need to stay moist, but not too moist since roots do not grow in the soil but in the space (air) between it so with too much water your can actually drown your plants. What makes this eve
Propagation of strawberry plants 2008-08-03 23:30:00
My strawberries have stopped producing berries and now have started send runners all over the place. During the berry growing season I would pinch them off to let the plants use their energy creating delicious berries. Now those runners are not really doing any harm I have decided to let some of them live and propagate them into some small plant trays.
I grow my strawberries in the open
More Onion Flowers 2008-08-03 23:06:00
The bees are loving these guess I should be seeing some great onion seeds soon. Read more:Flowers
Propagating peppermint and lemon verbena 2008-07-25 14:17:00
Starting next week I will have an office at work with a window so of course I have to start thinking about what sort of vegetation I can put on that ledge. The first thing that came to mind was peppermint and lemon verbena seemed like a good choice since they provide an excellent fragrance and I can eat/drink them if I have to stay late and get tired of free soda. They can also be neglected fo
Hey those cucumbers look like pickles 2008-08-23 10:46:00
That was a statement my oldest daughter (6 years old) made which I must admit I am pretty sure I was much older before I had that thought. Seemed like a good opportunity for teaching the kids were pickles come from and a great excuse to make some sweet summer pickles. While heading out the door to get some spices we were lacking my wife told me, "these better not be $20 pickles." I have some
Picking orange tomatoes 2008-08-23 10:10:00 My youngest daughter has been very excited waiting to pick our tomatoes. She picked a green one a couple weeks back which I informed her that she needs to wait until they turn red, guess I needed to be more clear about "dark" red, since yesterday when we went out to our garden the first thing I heard was "I picked a matoe" which she is proudly displaying below.
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Getting kids to eat vegetables from the garden 2008-08-10 21:11:00
One of the original ideas when starting my first garden was a way to hopefully to get my kids to actually eat some vegetables if they helped growing. Other than a couple bites of carrots this has not been very successful until recently. I was able to convince my four year old to actually eat some potatoes from the garden...well okay potatoes are not technically scientifically classified as a v
Planting your second (fall) cold season crop 2008-09-07 10:36:00 With my tomatoes changing colors and having a consistent harvest of cucumbers it is now time to start thinking about a second season crop of cold season vegetables. If you were less than successful with your spring cold season crop as I was, definitely consider giving a fall crop a try. There are many advantages since pests are less active and temperatures decrease and will lower temperatures an
When to pick sweet corn 2008-08-31 11:02:00
I had to look up this answer myself since this is the first year I have grown sweet corn (Growing Challenge), here is the advice I found online:
When the tassels turn dark brown
When the juice from kernels are milky white and soft
From GardenDesk, corn is ready when the raccoons eat it.
From my personal experience, use tassel color to determine if you should even bother checking if it is re
Picking wild blackberries - the sequel 2008-08-31 10:07:00
I enjoyed the blackberry pie so much I decided we needed some blackberry jam as well. I picked so sparsely at my first public berry picking location that I could have gone back and easily found enough berries to make jam, but it was a nice day and decided to take a walk in the woods with my youngest daughter. After exploring (getting lost for two hours) and picking various species of blackberr Read more:Picking
, sequel
Where do cucumbers come from? 2008-08-29 18:04:00 Cucumbers seem to have a similar property of peas that they seem to just appear out of nowhere. One day you see a little flower and seem to grow 10 inches overnight. I know this probably has more to the whole green camouflage and my eyes being bad but this year I kept a close eye on them and documented their growth.
Baby cucumbers (Day 1)
Cucumbers (Day 2....ok maybe a week)
How to harvest sunflower seeds 2008-08-29 10:35:00
The trickiest part of harvesting sunflower seeds is timing. If you wait too long, the birds will let you know when you wake up to the head of the flower on the ground with seeds devoured. There are a couple of ways to get around this when the backs of your sunflowers begin to get yellow cover them with a paper bag or cheesecloth to inhibit the birds from stealing them. Given I probably would
Picking wild blackberries (Blackberry pie recipe) 2008-08-28 19:02:00
Given the price of produce these days and how blackberries cannot be killed here in the Pacific Northwest there are not too many trails that don’t have these bushes attempting to overtake them I decided to take my 4-year old with me blackberry picking. In just about 15 minutes (also length of time 4-year old has for blackberry picking) we were able to pick exactly 4 cups of blackberries. Si Read more:Picking
Easter Lilies Blooming 2008-08-28 16:23:00
Nope, this is not a mix up in the date in this post. Last Easter
we received as a gift from a friend, after the foliage had died off I planted I planted the bulb and what was left of the foliage in one of my garden beds. Given how the plant is forced to bloom in March/April I was pessimistic that it would even bloom at all, let alone this season. Well guess I will take it as a late summer s Read more:Lilies
, Blooming
Something is coming out of my compost bin!! - Update 2008-08-28 16:22:00
The volunteer tomato plant that has been growing out of my compost bin definitely looks healthy but given its rapid foliage growth and no fruit I guess I don’t need to do any soil tests to confirm my compost is high in nitrogen. Note to self, don’t grow tomatoes in pure compost. Read more:Update
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