March 2011
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Monster Spinach and Copenhagen Cabbage (aka...
For the first time in my gardening years (all two to be exact), I finally got around to planting cool season crops during the cool season! In the past, I always waited until April before planting any seeds outside. But one day last week, March 11th to be specific, I was outside under the gorgeous blue sky, plopping little itsy-bitsy seeds into the soil.
March 11th would be roughly four weeks...
February 2011
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Strawberry Go Nuts!
In 2009, I bought two strawberry seedlings and planted them. They produced a handful of small strawberries that year and created a third strawberry plant via a runner. My grandmother had told me that strawberry plants can be overwintered in California, so I left them in the ground, not expecting much from them due to their lackluster performance.
Those plants decided to prove me wrong. In 2010, I...
January 2011
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Try not. Plant, or plant not. There is no try.
As I looked back on my 2010 garden, there were many projects that were abandoned, one of which was my gardening blog! I left off with a story of the slug and earwig night-hunts and by now, there has been a bunch of new adventures, one of which includes a GIANT tomato hornworm! *UGH….I just shivered and got goosebumps.*
This year, one of my resolutions (yes, you can have multiple New...
April 2010
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The Great Earwig and Slug Massacre
It all started on a dark, cold night.
She was anxious to discover what perverse critter had been chomping on the cherry tree’s leaves to the midribs. Oh how she trembled with anger as she flung on her coat and pulled on her moon boots.
“Those buggers will pay,” she muttered under her steam-filled breath, stepping into the wilderness with gloved hands and her trusted weapon:...
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My 2010 Garden: Plants and Plans.
In February, when the weather’s nasty and wearing on me, I begin to dream about the things I will plant in Spring. Colorful vegetables, luscious fruit, and a grand display of flowers. Of all the things I want to plant, I probably only pick a third of it because:
1) I am a busy woman and I don’t want my social life to be consumed by my gardening life. **Cue derisive laughter.**
2) I...
March 2010
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Don't be jealous...
or rather, do be jealous. :-)
Come closer…
Even closer.
My, my, what a temptress you are!
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Spring is (almost) here!
There’s no more exciting time in a garden than spring, when trees and plants come out of dormancy and begin to bloom. In the winter, I look at the bare branches and wonder if the plant is even alive. I secretly hope it is, but nothing anchors that hope except faith. When the weather gets warmer and the buds and flowers burst open, I sigh in relief, almost as if I’d been holding my...
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How goes it, Miss Wanna-be-Organic?
Wanting to grow stuff organically is a lot more difficult than it sounds. There are reasons why scientists, chemists, and businessmen designed synthetic fertilizers/pesticides/herbicides. Here are some instances:
1) But what big weeds you have! — I’m sure my neighbors are at this very moment plotting to buy a flame thrower for the purpose of eradicating the knee-high weeds in my...
February 2010
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Digging on Adobe
Even before I moved in to my house, I’d decided where I wanted my vegetable garden to be: the side yard which serves as an RV parking spot, right next to the garage. It is the sunniest spot and gets the morning sun since it faces east. It also happened to be bursting with weeds. If weeds love it, the soil must be great, right?
So, out with the weeds and… uh… what’s all...
Yes, it's true.
I am afraid of worms. And I’m also a gardener. Sometimes life brings you to places (i.e. the garden) you never imagined yourself to be in.
In May of 2009, I started a vegetable garden in the side yard of my house. It was my first attempt at gardening after being inspired by the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. There was something about growing my own food that made me excited. There was...