A pic of the cucumber I was holding in my last blog, just 6 days later!
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| July 21, 2011 - Cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches to come |
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Fuzzy Cucumbers and Overgrown Chard
The middle of July: Cucumbers grow inches a day, no joke. The chard is going crazy and has thousands upon thousands of the knobby looking seeds it produces as it grows ever taller. Although at this point, it's so weighed down with seeds that it has flopped over and invades the walkway.
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| July 15, 2011 |
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| July 15, 2011 - Not just a pretty face, seeds to eat soon! |
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| July 15, 2011 - Various peppers, tomato and basil |
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| July 15, 2011 - Melons |
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| July 15, 2011 - Cucumbers |
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| July 15, 2011 - Corn tassels |
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| July 15, 2011 -Look close, tiny micro hairs to capture pollen |
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| July 15, 2011 - Cucumber |
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| July 15, 2011 - Fuzzy! |
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Harvesting Garlic
After 7 months in the ground, the garlic was ready to be pulled out. I was pretty certain I would pull it all up and it would be the tiniest, most pathetic garlic ever, but I was completely taken by surprise. It actually ended up being bigger than what you usually get in the store. My "Music" garlic ended up being large and extremely spicy. Although interestingly enough, not very strong smelling.
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| July 2, 2011 - Some substantial garlic |
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| July 2, 2011 - I'll be planting more next time |
The garage doubles as a flashback to my teenage years and a decent place to cure the garlic.
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| July 2, 2011 - Curing the garlic |
Alliums Have Weird Apendages
The garlic started getting scapes while I was gone, and I let these get way too big, which is supposed to inhibit bulb growth, but my garlic ended up being giant anyway so no harm no foul. I finally cut them off and had a very unique bouquet on my kitchen counter for over a month.
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| June 25, 2011 - Garlic scapes |
Some of my onions also randomly went to seed.
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| June 25, 2011 - Onion blossom |
And the chive blossoms were dry and bursting with seeds.
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| June 25, 2011 - Dried out chive blossom |
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| June 25, 2011 - Chive seeds |
Back from the Roadtrip...there's a jungle in my backyard!
I went on a three week road trip all around the country. Before leaving I set up a drip system throughout the entire garden so my roommate would only need to check to make sure nothing was dying rather than water every day. This turned out to be a VERY good investment as my roommate skipped town, and decided to turn the drip off before leaving. I had a friend go check on my place because I was getting weird (justified) vibes from my roommate. He turned it back on, and the garden was just fine until I returned.
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| June 16, 2011 |
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| June 16, 2011 - Herb bed a'bloom! |
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| June 16, 2011 - Sunflowers and kale |
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| June 16, 2011 - This chard is insane |
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| June 16, 2011 - Beans and cucumber taking off |
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| June 16, 2011 - Corn and melons |
Late Spring
Lots of growth in the garden, the cool weather veggies are bolting and going to seed and the hot weather veggies continue to grow leaps and bounds.
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| May 22, 2011 |
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| May 22, 2011 - The corn is coming in |
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| May 22, 2011 - Ameliore Sanguine lettuce |
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| May 22, 2011 - Sunflowers and kale |
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| May 22, 2011 - The chard is almost 5 feet tall! |
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| May 22, 2011 - Very large pea plant |
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| May 22, 2011 - Beans and lots of onions |
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