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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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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Winterizing, featuring my husband :)

I thought I’d write a little post describing how we have prepared (deconstructed) the balcony garden for winter. The process was based on what we thought would be a good idea, and a few websites [I'll add the links here when I'm on the other computer] that we read about storing terracotta pots for [...]

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Thankful Thursday, on Friday

I’m thankful that we were able to hack down the remaining foliage in the garden last weekend, before it got REALLY cold. (okay, “REALLY cold” compared to the 70-degree weather I was enjoying throughout October) [I'll post more about this once I get the pictures from my husband's camera...]
I’m thankful for getting to [...]

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First frost

Well, I saw the first frost yesterday morning (at least, I was up early enough to see whether there was frost). We had been prepared for it though…
Here’s a picture of the dying garden on Saturday afternoon before I started the dismantling process.

The tomato and pepper plants aren’t really quite dead, but it’s too [...]

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