The pitiful state of my garden

It’s so pitiful, really, that I’m not going to show a picture of it.  A while ago, I went out and mercilessly hacked off a bunch of tomato branches and leaves that were doomed by powdery mildew.  My garden looks depressingly skeletal now, but at least it is still producing for now:
I had enough tomatoes [...]

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Busy, busy

Things sure have been busy around here since my last post.  Husband and I had a nice long weekend at GenCon in Indianapolis, I started my new job, I won a blue ribbon and a rosette at the State Fair for one of my sewn projects (more about that in a later post, maybe! [...]

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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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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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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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