Time for a tomato update because they just keep going! My plants are now at the six feet tall mark. How do I know this? A few weeks ago I had to upgrade my support system from a single 3-foot bamboo pole to a 6-foot bamboo pole, plus a 3-foot pole for the side branches. [...]
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I planted pepper seeds yesterday. I was only going to start the hot ones, but then I read the sweet seed packets and saw the germination time was about the same. Four pepper varieties are new to me this year, the rest are old. One in particular, the Chile De Comida is a hot pepper [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 19th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s a little strange to think that in the nearly five years that we’ve been living here, I’ve been using the view to the shed to tell the story of the seasons. And now, now we’re watching and waiting, and with the next season, I will have to find something new to meter the view [...]
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Potager Vegetable Garden I’m in love. This is exactly how I want to garden. Now that I know it has a name…I’m beyond excited.
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I should have known. Tomatoes are self-pollinating- they pretty much take care of themselves when it comes to pollination. However, once I have blossoms on my plant, if I give the plant a shake every once in a while, it could assist the pollination by encouraging pollen to fall to right where it needs to. [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been going through my seldom-written in notebook from the past three growing years. My, how the obsession has grown! Three years ago, in 2007, the bulk of my garden was planted by April 30th. A second planting of lettuce, turnips, and red beets in July that year failed. That was the year I tried [...]
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So just now I went to water one of my tomato plants. It’s very interesting- I have three plants, and two look drastically different from the third. Drastically- I’m beginning to wonder if they are actually different varieties or…what? I dunno. Anyway, as I’m watering this plant, I noticed that a blossom is on the [...]
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