Thankful Thursday and quick update

Yes, I do realize it’s Friday– but better late than never!
I’m thankful this week that some loose ends for my dissertation work are starting to get tied up.  One last major hurdle and I think I’m set to go to finish my analysis.  And today I officially set my defense date for July 22.  It’s [...]

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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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More seeds

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.
After [...]

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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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Something to look forward to…

Today I figured out some planting dates for my tomato and cucumber seeds…  and I only have to wait another 4 or 5 weeks to plant!  I’m really looking forward to spring

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Yuck.

Well, we cut our last cucumber last night.  It may have had some time left on the vine still, but it needed to get cut…  The second (and last) cucumber plant contracted something nasty…  I’m pretty sure that it had powdery mildew* and then last night I noticed something else:

I have *no idea* what this [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for an absolutely wonderful two years and two days with my fabulous husband!  We had a fantastic anniversary dinner up in Chicago at a little place called Sweets & Savories.  Monday night is the chef’s tasting menu special, and we ended up having 9 fantastic courses…  (I *did* end up taking a couple [...]

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Mildewy death?

So sad.  
One pot of cucumber plants has all but died.  Last Saturday I noticed that it really was starting to look squiffy…  

…but I was hoping that it would perk back up again.  No such luck.  I think I’m giving it up for lost after seeing it this morning:

I’m thinking that the culprit may [...]

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Nine-inch cucumber

I thought that this beauty deserved its own post!

This is, I think, the best-looking cucumber I’ve ever had so far gardening on my balcony.  I cut it on Sunday:

I hope it’s as yummy as it looks!

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Garden produce

Let me just say, I love cucumber.  So I was pretty excited on Friday when we had a cucumber big enough to cut and eat on our salads at dinner.  It was pretty short, but I didn’t want to let it get much fatter.  
We also had a strawberry!!  This one was about twice as [...]

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