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July 31, 2007
Elizabeth Park. Rose Garden
In West Hartford CT.
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July 27, 2007
Weed or flower?
Not sure what this is. Looks nice, though.
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July 26, 2007
Square Foot Garden. Zukes and tomatoes
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July 25, 2007
Straight Eight Cucumber
We should have lots of them soon
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July 20, 2007
A variety of hot & mild peppers
Wondering if we should have pinched back the tall ones?
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July 19, 2007
Jerusalem artichoke?
Jerusalem artichoke? ... or just another "DYC"?
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July 18, 2007
Bumble bee in the weed patch
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July 17, 2007
Celebrity tomato
These are yummy, somewhat like a Cherokee Purple.
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July 11, 2007
Beware Store-Bought Soil Bearing Gifts
I recently planted a tomato in a pot using soil that I bought at Wal-Mart. Yesterday when I watered, I found little white larvae in the soil. I don't know for sure what they are, but I'm betting termites, since we had that problem with mulch from Wal-Mart last year. (The County Extension Service ID'd the bugs last year, but right now their bug expert is on vacation. The nerve!)
I treated the soil with Bug-B-Gone, but it didn't kill the larvae. Any ideas?
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First Sunflowers
Last but not least, our first sunflowers are coming into bloom. We can't take credit for these: they are wild Maximillian Sunflowers, with multiple blooms on each plant. They are truly one of the joys of living in the rural West-- and this year looks like they're going to be plentiful.
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First Squash Blossom
Here's our first squash blossom-- grown from seed no less!
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First Tomato Flowers
While Bob & Sue already have good-sized tomatoes on their plants, here in Utah we're just getting our first blossoms. This plant was close enough to the house to protect it from the June frost, and is our best hope for tomatoes this year.
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July 08, 2007
Peas Going Wild
In past years, our peapods haven't amounted to much: single, straggly stalks that produced a few pods and then died. This year for some reason has been different: they're going wild. We've already picked a pound and a half of peapods, by far our best year, and they show no sign of quitting. I even had to (gasp) prune them today because so many stalks are coming out of each root. So far they are out best crop this year, outperforming even the radishes (which got hit hard by chinch bugs).
Maybe it's our new sprinkler system. We plant peapods along the edge of each raised bed, and maybe the center-sprinkler method wasn't keeping them wet enough.
In any case, we're doing a lot of stir fries this year!
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July 07, 2007
In an English country garden...
Actually, we are in Wales (not England) and live in a small city (not the country), but I've done my best to squeeze in as much as possible to our tiny front garden.
The 13ft by 6ft front garden of our traditional 1910 terraced property was completely covered in concrete when we moved in 4 years ago. I borrowed a pick axe, waved it around a bit, gained a extra few muscles in my arms and then looked for some plants to fill my bare batch of soil with. We have some lovely elderly neighbours who gave me some cuttings; "I don't know what this is, dear, but it has lovely flowers". So I planted the unknown plants (and I few things I knew, like the lavender and japanese maple) and watched my garden grow.
The result is quite pleasing to the eye, although the pictures don't really do it justice... now I just need to work out what all the plants are... and also how that Gnome got there!
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July 04, 2007
The tomatoes are ripening
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July 03, 2007
Cheap cat door
To make a cheap cat door on a screen door, buy a plastic report cover and cut off the semi transparent back cover. Cut a hole in the screen slightly smaller than the cover. Attach the cover to the screen the same way you would attach papers to the report. You now have a cat door. They push through the transparent plastic front cover to come in and out.
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July 02, 2007
Joey meets Rocky Raccoon
Our cat Joey sat baffled by the appearance of a raccoon at the outside food dish. He'd never seen one before. They greeted each other soon after by hissing, so I brought Joey inside. He is certainly a scrapper and has chased cats larger than him out of the yard but is probably no match for a raccoon.
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