cmagnus

Member since Friday, 02 May 08

I’m a visiting scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. I live in Albany, NY. I’m a relatively recent transplant from Southern California, but I’m gradually adapting to this bizarre climate where water (sometimes even freezing water) falls out of the sky at odd times of the year and tomatoes are treated as annuals instead of perennials.

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Years gardening: 7

Gardens
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Cmagnus's A Kitchen garden

Zone 5 Now that I own a home, instead of an apartment, I have a south facing side yard, as opposed to a north facing, black widow infested, balcony. I'll have to worry about squirrels...
- 14 plants
- 356 journals
- 10 faves
- 13 comments
Cmagnus's A Winter Greens garden

Zone 5 In the interest of adapting to life in the frigid north, I am attempting a winter garden. I'm planting cold-hardy greens in window boxes in a three season room. It is much che...
- 10 plants
- 56 journals
- 2 faves
- 12 comments
Cmagnus's Backyard garden

Zone 5 The backyard is much like the frontyard, only in the back. So far it's mostly grass, with a big compost pile smack dab in the middle---not the best garden design, but the most ...
- 7 plants
- 44 journals
- 0 faves
- 8 comments
Cmagnus's Caffinated Houseplant garden

Zone 5 These are my permanent indoor plants. I've moved all of my temporary plants that are waiting to be planted to my nomadic garden.
- 26 plants
- 88 journals
- 1 faves
- 5 comments
Cmagnus's Critter garden

Zone 5 This is a garden for tracking garden critters, friendly or otherwise.
- 24 plants
- 79 journals
- 0 faves
- 3 comments
Cmagnus's Nomadic garden

Zone 5 Indoor garden of seed startings, clippings, recent purchases, etc. Plants in this garden move around the house depending on state of plant and time of year. Sometimes it's in ...
- 1 plants
- 9 journals
- 0 faves
- 3 comments
Cmagnus's Zee Frontyard garden

Zone 5 It's basically just the front yard. But given the passionate hatred of mowing that my partner and I are deeply imbued with, and the fact that we're a philosopher and a musician...
- 20 plants
- 12 journals
- 0 faves
- 27 comments
Cmagnus's Zee Study garden

Zone 5 This garden is my partner's garden. It lives in his study. I'm keeping track of it because he has traded plants out with plants from my caffeinated houseplant garden enough th...
- 2 plants
- 2 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments

Name	Type	Brand
Beets Seeds Beta vulgaris	Seeds	Purchase Cook's Garden
Long Beans Seeds Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis	Seeds	Harvested Long Beans Planting
Marigold Seeds Tagetes tenuifolia	Seeds	Purchase Cook's Garden
Thai Chili Seeds Capsicum annuum	Seeds	Gift From My Mom.