The end…for this fall at least…

Well, it’s over for this year.  Last weekend (Oct 10-11), it started getting cold enough to warrant frost warnings on the NOAA site for our area.  Husband has been so very helpful– on the 11th, he went out and picked all the tomatoes that were left on the plants, red, not quite red, and green…
They [...]

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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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Unsproutyness

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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Container gardening seminar

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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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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I want to do it right this time…

Last year, I started my seeds *WAY* late.  This year, I want to get it right!  I’ve marked back from the last-frost-date the number of weeks on each of the different seed packets.  Is it bad to start them too early?  I’d love some feedback from some more experienced gardeners out there, if you read [...]

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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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Note to self: date of last spring frost

Last year, for some reason, I had trouble finding this information.  But this year I found a handy-dandy map:
http://www.isws.illinois.edu/atmos/statecli/Frost/last_spring_frost.htm
I’m looking forward to getting home to start calculating when to plant my seeds!

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Happy 2009!

This year, I’ve decided to memorize and meditate on Philippians 4:4-7 (NIV):
 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, [...]

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Peas and the amazing revitalized plant

I just thought that I’d share a photo of the pea sprouts that I took over the weekend.  I planted about 9 pea seeds and almost all of them came up (what a difference from the set that I planted in early spring…)

 
And the yellow pear branch that a I replanted on a whim (see [...]

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