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Tomatoes

by Natalie March 11, 2010 Gardening

Last year, I grew two tomato plants, each purchased from a hardware store. One was a grape tomato (no idea what variety), and one was a “Better Boy.” The Better Boy was certainly not better. The grape tomato plant did fairly well, supplying Emily with tomatoes all summer (and a few here & there for [...]

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Falling

by Natalie March 10, 2010 Gardening

My onions are falling. You can’t really see it in that photo, but most of them aren’t standing up straight anymore. I think I have figured out why, in all my searching for how to grow onions from seed, that everyone grew them in a flat together, rather than divided as I did. They hold [...]

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Onion sprouts

by Natalie February 17, 2010 Gardening

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The garden has been started!

by Natalie February 11, 2010 Gardening

This year, I’m starting a lot of my garden from seed. The first thing to be planted was my onions. Yeah, not much to look at yet! I planted 144 seeds. This variety is called “Copra” and it’s supposed to be a good storage onion. I didn’t have much luck storing my onions last year [...]

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Who says you can’t grow rosemary from seed?

by Natalie October 28, 2009 Gardening

Well, you can. But it’s supposedly not as easy as just propagating from a cutting from an already-established plant. I didn’t know this. Neither did my seed, apparently! It grew just fine. Granted not every seed germinated, but it’s done quite well with what did! I had to transplant it to a new pot. I’ve [...]

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Heirloom Seeds

by Natalie October 26, 2009 Gardening

My boss recently visited Monticello, and brought me back these heirloom seeds collected from the gardens there. How cool is that? I’ll have to collect seeds from all 3 of these to keep growing them in years to come. Perennial Pea. This is a flowering plant, not a fruiting plant. It says it can grow [...]

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Carrots

by Natalie August 12, 2009 Gardening

We never had luck growing carrots in our garden when I was a kid. I only planted these because the kids wanted them. I didn’t think they’d grow. I didn’t think they’d taste good if they did grow. I was wrong on both counts. They grew. They taste good! 106 carrots (ok, some of them [...]

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Runnin’, runnin’, runnin’

by Natalie July 22, 2009 Gardening

My strawberry plants, which are everbearers or day neutral berries, and which aren’t supposed to generate (many) runners to reproduce, are runnin’ like crazy! They’re also still producing strawberries (although slower than before, not that they were ever overbearing by any means!). However, after 3 months, some birds or other critter have been finding them [...]

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The last zucchini for a bit

by Natalie July 20, 2009 Gardening

Why will it be the last? Well my plants got a bad case of powdery mildew. I read that milk can be used to combat the mildew. So I first cut off all the affected leaves, and then gave the rest (the few that are left!) a spray with a 1:1 milk and water solution. [...]

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Pepperpalooza

by Natalie July 18, 2009 Gardening

It was really windy last night, and these guys were starting to weigh down the plants. Plus we wanted to eat some for dinner, so it was the perfect time to do a pepper harvest! I’m pretty happy with how big they’ve gotten. The little one I picked early because it had a bad spot [...]

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