Quickie garden update

There are lettuce and pea sprouts in my outdoor pots!  Whee!  Last Saturday the weather was so beautiful that I had to get outside.  So after I got home from helping some friends move in the morning, I went out and set up my pots on the balcony.  Since I’m using potting soil for the [...]

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Eggshells

I’m not very good at following through with planning ahead for the garden.  I get really excited about it all, but I don’t do any planting research enough ahead of time and when I get to the planting part, there are things I find out that I would have liked to have done.  This year, [...]

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More garden goodies

Husband and I harvested some more goodies from our garden yesterday.  There are a number of yellow pear tomatoes that are starting to get yellow, so I’m looking forward to having more than one or two at one time soon.  
I have to be honest, I am a little disappointed in how few tomatoes we’re [...]

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New fertilizer

Until now I’ve been using Miracle Gro (the multi-purpose formulation) to fertilize my garden. It works fine, but I ran out So I went to the store today, and started looking at the fertilizer options that they had.
I’ve learned that fertilizers mainly contain three nutrients necessary for plants’ growth: nitrogen, [...]

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Lettuce woes

My black-seeded Simpson is not doing very well.  I’m not exactly sure what the problem is.  Ever since I thinned them, the sprouts have languished– one of them has even flat out died.  They don’t seem to have any self-support the way they used to, and I usually find them sort of lying down.  Perhaps [...]

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It’s a jungle out there!

When friends come over to our place and see the balcony garden, their comments are always along the lines of, “Wow, you’ve got a jungle on your balcony!” I take that as a compliment It must mean that our plants are thriving. Here’s a picture that I took of the garden [...]

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It’s been a long time….

So it’s time for an update!
My husband and I were in Corsica for two weeks, which is part of the reason there have been no updates on this blog for a good long while. The other part of the reason is that I have been very busy with research (partly due to the fact [...]

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First fruits!

The garden is getting along smashingly… and on Independence Day, I picked our first produce– the double cucumber highlighted in this entry. I rarely buy cucumbers in the grocery store because they just seem outrageously priced, even though I absolutely love them. So eating this cucumber was such a treat!

I probably could have [...]

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Thankful… Friday?

I’m a bit late this week… but better late than no post!
This week I am thankful:
* for the rain (and the fabulous thunderstorms) and the extra bonus of not having to water my plants every day
* that hand-pollination is working and I have hope that the cucumbers will grow up to be eatable
* for [...]

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Shriveling cucumbers

So I’m having a bit of a problem with my cucumbers. The vines are growing nicely, I think, and the plants are flowering like crazy. And every so often I find a tiny new cucumber starting. The problem is that a few days later, I’ll look for that little cucumber and find [...]

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