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October 30, 2005
Happy Halloween!
The Frankenpumpkins
From left to right:
bobkin
cricketkin
kirstekin
woodchipkin
bosankin (two spiders)
Posted by Sue at 07:34 PM | Comments (0)
Desparately Seeking ... Kansas Oscar
Kansas Oscar
I have gone berserk with the dwarf dahlia list -- now have about 240 cultivars,
some fully sourced with prices, some not.
There really is no excuse for Flop.
The list will appear here within the week ... but meanwhile,
can anyone tell me where to buy Kansas Oscar?
Posted by Sue at 07:29 PM | Comments (0)
October 25, 2005
The agony of floppy dahlias
You stake them, they grow above the stake and either pull the stake out or just fall on top of the stake. Dwarf dahlias are the way to go!
Posted by Bob at 04:55 PM | Comments (0)
October 23, 2005
Flop- B-Gone
I have a list of 123 dwarf dahlia varieties (with pretty pictures) and where to get them --
and as soon as I figure out how to make the file much smaller than 9 mb, it will be posted here.
I'm thinking pdf.
If you want it sooner, please email us.
Posted by Sue at 03:54 PM | Comments (0)
Frankenpumpkins on parade
We can't as yet agree on their carved personalities, nor can we determine the winner, since they seem to be entered in different categories: ugliest, gnarliest, biggest, baddest, and scariest.
What do *you* think?
Posted by Bob at 02:02 PM | Comments (0)
October 20, 2005
More October vegetables
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October 19, 2005
Freakin' Floppy Dahlias
They flop out of the tomato cages, collapse left and right with stakes attached. No more, I tell you!
DWARF dahlias from now on for me. They bloom and bloom, no flop.
Everything else has to have its own spine.
Posted by Sue at 10:09 PM | Comments (0)
October vegetables. Japanese eggplant
The second season continues. Aug-Sept. were so hot most vegetables slowed down. Now they're coming back again.
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October 18, 2005
Rain
We've just had two days of rain, a bit unusual for this early in the Fall. There was a surprise rain storm last month, the first time it's rained in L.A. in September for many decades.
So, it could be a rainy winter (again.)
Posted by Bob at 02:36 PM | Comments (0)
October 17, 2005
The tomatoes are producing again
Summers here is the San Fernando Valley get so hot that that many of the vegetables slowed down or stop producing completely. Now that's it's finally fall, they are producing again, among them the delicious Yellow Perfection tomatoes.
Even the hot peppers and okra, which can tolerate hot weather, are producing more now.
Posted by Bob at 09:43 AM | Comments (0)
October 14, 2005
The frankenpumpkins are nearly full grown
They were smaller this year because we didn't fertilize them. So no 300 pound monster like last year. Still, the one on the right is almost a yard long. They were grown from giant pumpkin seeds Sue saved from last year which apparently crossed with a gourd, hence the lumpy shape.
Posted by Bob at 08:44 AM | Comments (0)
October 11, 2005
Sugar maple. Northampton, MA
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October 08, 2005
Hillside, northern Mass.
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Sumac changing colors
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Foliage - Northern Mass.
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October 02, 2005
Finally, Fall
Today is the first day in probably eight weeks that it is below 80. Most of those days were above 90, with more than a few in the hundreds.
It rained hard here a week or so ago, the first time that many can recall rain in September. Is this a portent for another winter of torrential rain, like last year?
Posted by Bob at 11:11 AM | Comments (0)