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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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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Pretty garden

Well, I think it’s pretty, anyway  Here are some photos I took yesterday in the beautiful, but fading, evening light.  
 

the peas reach for the sky

I managed to capture a pea pod unfurling

the tomato plants continue to thrive as the lettuce “season” ends

the cucumbers are growing quickly!

the italian parsley is thriving!  (unfortunately the [...]

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Hot growth!

Here’s another big long update post!
Last Friday evening, we cut our first bunch of mesclun leaves!

We mixed them into a big salad that we served when friends of ours came for dinner Yum! I think that from now on, all of my gardens will include a Mesclun mix! We harvested [...]

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Mediocre garden progress

The weather here has been cold and kind of nasty, so my garden isn’t faring as well as I’d like.   The chilliness isn’t the worst part– it’s been raining so much that there’s been hardly any sun for my poor plantlings.  It’s not terrible (yet), but not great either. I went and took [...]

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Peanut butter greenhouses

The past few days it’s been much cooler than you might expect for a midwestern May and it’s also been pretty windy.  I was pretty worried about the little tomato sprouts, because after their first night outside, each sprout had at least one wilted leaf.  So on Sunday, I started looking around for something to [...]

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Strawberry flowers and other sprouty fun

Wednesday was rather damp in the morning… I was working from home, so I took a break at one point and went out to investigate the goings-on of the garden. The rain was so pretty on the leaves of one of the lettuces in the Mesclun…

I really need to learn which leaves match [...]

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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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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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