I wouldn’t say that the tomatoes from my 2011 gardening experiment were a great success, and yet they weren’t a failure either. The tiny container Bitonto Cherry was prolific and delicious. My Matt’s Wild Cherry got off to a rough start, but in the end it practically took over the tomato trench. I learned that [...]
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Some time around early June my garlic sent up these tall curly cues. Honestly, I didn’t know what to do with them and thought that maybe the would flower or something. A friend of mine told me that the garlic would do this but for some reason I was completely unprepared. He also said that [...]
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Last year one of the worst failures of my garden were my squash plants. Epic fail is really more like it. No matter what methods I tried, I couldn’t make my squash grow if my life had depended on it (and thank goodness it didn’t). Summer squash, zucchini, winter squash… it was all the same. [...]
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Welcome to the 2012 edition in the collective blog series: Painting Our Black Thumbs Green. You can find other related posts in Veggies Squared. This blog meme is held in conjunction with Christina of The Table has Shoes and Other Ambiguities. Last year we both conducted fairly successful experiments in edible gardening… and this year [...]
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In 2011 I became a runner, a bread baker, a gardener, and a conformation dog handler. At the beginning of 2011 I struggled with my Magnolia as she recovered from colon cancer. Then, without my running buddy to train with, I finished my very first half marathon. I resolved not to “wuss out” on any [...]
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I can hardly believe that I harvested the last of my lettuce yesterday… January 1st, 2012. Most of it actually still looked really good, but I thought that my luck would shortly run out with the absence of any killing frosts. After all, we don’t live in the Deep South, Virginia’s weather is bound to [...]
View Article garden, gardening, lettuce, SFG, square foot gardening, vegetable garden, vegetable gardeningI apologize that this post is so brief… but… WHAT IS THAT STUFF??? Does anyone know? I’m scared it might be southern blight.
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