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Remember how I said 2 weeks?

by on February 18, 2009 in Plans & Getting Going

So in my post on the 15th I said some rubbish about waiting 2 weeks to see growth? How’s 3 days. :lol The earliest any of the packets say to germination is the lettuce at 5-10 days, most are around 10-21.This is the lettuce, but some cabbage has also popped up. I love gardening :treehugger

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Here’s the red onion I planted today, it’s a little under the weather from being stuck in a bag but it’ll come around!

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Still here

by on July 11, 2008 in The Growing Garden

Not much to say…very busy with non gardening stuff!

The garden is still doing great, I have about 6 or 7 zucchini , 2 summer squash, a bazillion tomato flowers but still no fruit (what’s up with that?), the corn is waist high, the remaining taters are huge, one pea vine is at least 7-8 feet tall, I have twice as much parsley as before I dried the last batch (that was a pain in the ass to do, will be finding a dehydrator as soon as I have the funds – this being poor shit sucks)… lots of growth…I wish the tomatoes would FRUIT so I could do something with them before we move dammit.

I died.

by on June 28, 2008 in General, The Growing Garden

Really. When I saw the thermometer in my van and it said 106F, I died. Thankfully the a/c brought me back. Well, maybe not so much, it’s still 80 degrees inside my house at 11pm and I’m miserable. I’m sure I sound melodramatic, but I tend to get awful migraines with the heat (got one yesterday) and it just makes me feel so horrible. Blech. I’m really not thrilled about this climate change stuff!

The garden is doing marvelous (I felt compelled to use that word, I don’t know why)…I finally have a teeny tiny oh-so-cute little green bean that I will get a picture of tomorrow. I dug up a little russet tater too, so see how they were doing, and it looks excellent. I will be cutting and drying parsley tomorrow, it’s taking over! I wish the basil would do so well. And the oregano and thyme…and chives…I’m getting the distinct impression my herbs don’t like this soil, at all. Time for a container herb garden?

The peas are producing like crazy. So far, no one else likes them much so they are ALL MINE! HA! Their loss! I found I much prefer the sugar snap to the Oregon snap, better flavor and crunch, but the sugar is tasty too. Lots of strawberries, and the kids and Chris report they are awesome. Tiny little things even fully ripe, but very juicy and tasty. The pumpkins, zucchini and crookneck squash are growing very well, getting big and leafy, but no blooms. I’m guessing in the next 2 weeks I’ll see some.

See you soon!

Little update

by on May 23, 2008 in The Growing Garden

The garden is doing super. Though I keep leaving the tomatoes out too long while hardening them off and they’re protesting with pale leaves and slowed growth, but still plugging along. I’ll probably transplant them the first sunny warm day we have next week. After that awful hot weather we had last weekend, it’s been in the low 50s and raining all week. The carrots are getting these cute little fuzzy true leaves. I love watching things grow :)

24 hours in a garden

by on May 20, 2008 in The Growing Garden

The heat finally left us and we were greeting to wonderfully rainy, 55 degree weather this morning. I was thrilled. I think even Chris welcomed it and he hates the greyness of the Pacific Northwest (Salem really isn’t that bad though, not like the Gray’s Harbor area he grew up in). So with the rain, I didn’t bother watering today and instead of checking on the garden every few hours (I’m a little obsessive), it was a good 24 hours since I last checked it.

All the taters grew, visibly – a lot. I actually said out loud, “Holy shit!” LOL
So did the corn. And the squash. And the zucchini. And the peas. And the tomatoes.
Strawberries are blooming like mad.
I could see some growth on the carrots and lettuce.

I have to say, I do think part of it is the Earth Juice. Some of those plants should have died from transplant shock and they’re just doing so well. It’s rather thrilling!

Slow Blog Day

by on May 13, 2008 in The Growing Garden

Sorry for the lack of bloggage – I finally was able to get busy with work and have been working and grocery shopping and other inside household stuff today. We had company yesterday and I spent 2 days scrubbing a perfectly clean house (I grew up in filthy squalor thanks to good ol’ mom and dad, I have clean issues) before hand…been hectic.

I have to finish my watering system tomorrow. The plants aren’t getting enough when I just water by hand. I need to replace one of the soaker hoses already down, it was a used one and I think it’s part of the problem with the flooding. I’m going to get up early and go visit my dad and get that out of the way, then come home and spend the day in the garden, then work in the evening.

Lets see, for growth…I have at least a dozen good strong zucchini sprouts, about 6 squash, about 15 corn (I hope more comes up!), the broccoli is looking awesome. The herbs…blech. I’m thinking about pulling them and using the space for something else…none of it is looking well. I still need to sown more carrots, lettuce and spinach. I should be able to get that done tomorrow.

I’m learning a lot of stuff with this. Much if it is what not to do next year lol