Transplantation

I’ve been looking forward to this day all winter long!  I planted out my tomato and herb sprouts that had been growing in Husband’s office.
We trucked them home on Friday after work, and I could hardly wait to start planting them on Saturday.  Here’s the balcony before I started.  You can see that the lettuces [...]

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Cleaning up the containers

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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Seed planting 2009!

Hurray!  The day finally came to plant seeds.  Yesterday I finally sat down and decided what I was going to plant where so that I could start enough seeds.  I think I finally have a plan:
3 pots with Early Girl tomatoes  (directly sow lettuce in this pot, later)
1 pot with Yellow Pear tomatoes (directly sow [...]

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Preparing for winter, act 1

I mentioned in an earlier post that the condo association for our building decided to have the wooden balcony railings, etc. repainted.  They asked all the unit-dwellers to move our stuff so that it wouldn’t be in the way of the painters.  I was pretty sad to chop down most of my garden, but it [...]

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Lettuce thinning & some sprouts and strawberries

So the black seeded simpson is doing great!! So today I decided to thin it out… Here’s a photo of the before:

The black seeded simpson seed packet said to thin the sprouts to 10″ to 12″ apart, so here’s the after for the two black seeded simpson pots:

I left 4 seedlings in the [...]

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Outdoor seed planting

It is a gloriously beautiful SPRING day outside today! So this morning I decided that this is the day to plant my peas and lettuces!
I started by unwrapping the six 14″ terracotta pots from their winter ensconcement (I think I just made up that word, but I like it ) under the [...]

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SEEDS!

Last night my husband and I went to Prairie Gardens and bought seeds!

We also got me an early birthday present of a trowel and gardening gloves. I’m so excited! The photo is probably too small for anyone to actually make out the varieties, so I’ll describe our choices below.

Tomatoes: [...]

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So many edibles, so few pots

I am getting more and more excited about my garden this year. I’ve decided to be more adventurous than last year and grow loose-leaf lettuces. I love those fancy mixed greens salads and there’s one kind of leaf that I think is particularly wonderful. I am pretty sure it is arugula, and [...]

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The planting

Last night, we planted the garden.
The inventory:
6 14-inch terracotta pots
3 10-inch pots
1 one 12-inch pot
2 2-cubic ft. bags of Miracle-Gro brand potting soil mix
3 8-qt bags of Schultz brand perlite
5 tomato cages
1 4-pack of Early Girl tomato plants
1 4-pack of Burpless cucumber plants
1 4-pack of red bell pepper plants
1 4-pack of chive plants
1 4-pack of [...]

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