Gardening Journals
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The joy of carrying my babbling baby boy to the garden each day is nothing short of magical. Every day, I pick him up from daycare on the way home from work, and when we get home, the puppies (now dogs, but they’ll always be puppies in our hearts) leap about eagerly to get a whiff of us ...
This entry is about The Libra's Victory Veg & Fruit garden.
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Day 53
I just saw a small rodent-type thing climbing my sungold cherry. It was about a foot off the ground, scrambling around a branch that had a lot of tomatoes on it. I ran outside to scare it away, and I didn’t get a good look at it. It’s brown and about the size of my fist. One of my...This entry is about Katxena's Sungold Cherry Tomato in the Tiny Farm garden.
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Around 20 years ago my then-neighbor put in a fantastic garden with beds, borders, seating areas, fountains and pergolas. His successor nurtured and added, putting in a huge fish pond and pruning back the excesses of the garden’s creator. Because this garden was so beautiful it inspired p...This entry is about Nax's adventures in gardening.
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I’ve been thinking about what herbs I would like to grow next year. I grow my herbs in containers, reserving garden bed space for plants that only occupy space for 1 or 2 seasons, or that need more room. I don’t have a lot of room for containers, so I want to make sure I’m get...
This entry is about Katxena's Urban Herbtopia garden.
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I harvested two perfect ripe tomatoes from my ‘Stupice’ tomato plant last weekend. These are the first tomatoes that are ripe in my garden. To honour the first tomatoes of 2008, I made a reconstructed tomato salad. To make this salad I sliced each tomato into four slices, then put them back toget...
This entry is about Meighan's adventures in gardening.
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“If I were a stamen, would you show as much interest in me as you do the garden?” my wife inquired. To my folly, I responded with humor “Of course not, honey; I’m a pistil man!” Eight words too late, I realized that was the wrong answer. Eight hours later I could har...
This entry is about The Libra's adventures in gardening.
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What Grows Around, Comes Around
After a long heart to heart with the wife, the household harmony has been restored, and new life has been introduced to both our relationship and our garden. Perhaps the most important thing we learned from all this is that just because you’re not doing anything wrong, doesn’t mean yo...
This entry is about The Libra's adventures in gardening.
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It is official, there really is a toad living in my shed. He/she was sitting there on the same piece of packing as I found him/her last time, looking at me warily. I had to excavate deep in to the shed to get my sun lounger out, so poor toad has to go back outside for it’s own safety....
This entry is about Happibun's Shed and rooftop garden.
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Accommodating the wee beasties
I’ve been looking for an insect lodge for a while, and the sort of thing I was looking for was a block with lots of little tubes in it, but today I found this thing called a butterfly house. I doubt very much that the local butterflies will recognise it for what it is supposed to be, the pi...
This entry is about Happibun's Bent Prunus garden.
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Day 0
I keep looking at my green beans and thinking how pretty the leaves look—I want to eat them! So I did a bit of research, and found that green bean leaves (plain old Phaseolus vulgaris) are in fact grown and eaten as a potherb in many parts of Africa and Indonesia. Am I the only gardener ...
This entry is about Katxena's Leaf Beans in the Tiny Farm garden.
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