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Would you look at those sprouts?!

Posted in herbs, seeds, tomatoes on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was  pretty sick at the beginning of the week, so it was a nice surprise to find an email from Husband saying that a whole bunch of my seeds had sprouted on Monday!  I didn’t have him take any pictures, but I finally got healthy and went in today to see them for myself.
First, [...]

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Cleaning up the containers

Posted in containers on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Saturday was a gloriously beautiful spring day.  I couldn’t just sit inside, so I got out my rubber gloves and an old to-be-thrown-away sponge and got at the pots.
Last year I had some trouble with powdery mildew on my cucumbers (which ended up killing them) and I didn’t want that to reappear this year, at [...]

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More seeds

Posted in container garden research, cucumbers, herbs, nasturtiums, planting, seeds, sprouts, tomatoes on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On Saturday morning, I attended the small-space gardening class at Prairie Gardens.  It was interesting, though having done a lot of reading/research on the subject of container gardening, and having done it for 2 years, not a lot of the information was brand new to me.  But it’s always good to have your facts reinforced.
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Thankful Thursday

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, not about gardening on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This week, I am most thankful for the way God gave me so much peace.  I had two job interviews– one on the phone (on Monday) and one in person (on Wednesday).  I have never had a real interview before, and I was quite nervous.  But God blessed me with incredible peace!  
Monday’s interview was [...]

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Unsproutyness

Posted in garden planning, seeds, sprouts on March 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m a bit worried that the sprouts aren’t coming up.  The one Early Girl sprout I mentioned in a previous post is still growing okay, and I’ve spotted a parsley sprout or two and a basil sprout or two, but otherwise, the containers are sproutless.  I wonder how long I should wait before trying to [...]

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Thankful Thursday

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, not about gardening, sprouts on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am so thankful for the opportunity to be interviewed for a postdoc position with a physics education research group.  I have the interview next week and I really hope that it goes well.  I’m pretty much terrified about it, to be honest.  But I’m thankful for the opportunity to switch fields to something that [...]

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First sprout!!

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, not about gardening, seeds, sprouts, tomatoes on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The first sprout appeared today (well, it might have come up over the weekend, but I saw it today at lunch!)!!!

It’s an Early Girl tomato sprout.  Funny, because the Yellow Pear and Tiny Tim tomatoes both have shorter germination times (3-8 days) than the Early Girl (10-15 days)
But I’m just excited to have any sprouts [...]

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Container gardening seminar

Posted in container garden research, garden planning on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re local, I’m going to be heading to the container gardening seminar that is offered (for free!) at Prairie Gardens.  I’ve pasted the information from their website below…  Let me know if you’ll go, too!  Registration is online at their website.  
Saturday, March 14
Small Space Vegetable Gardening
With Judie Fair & Jim Wuersch
Not a lot [...]

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Regenerating green onions

Posted in green onions, planting on March 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Last Monday, I made a recipe that used a few green onions.  Inspired by Jimmy Cracked Corn’s post, I decided to save the ends and replant them.  I didn’t feel like going out in the wind and cold to get more soil right then, so I just stuck them in some water.  I was amazed [...]

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