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Adventures in my Urban Garden: May 2006
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. May 29, 2006. Here's the story: I planted my seedlings on Thursday morning. On Friday and again on Saturday when I went to check on them a few looked like someone had taken a teeny tiny machete to them and cut them off at the stem. For a few it was just a severed limb but for at least 4 plants (eggplant, peppers and marigolds) it was a death blow! I wasn't 100% sure though because I hadn't seen any bugs in my...
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: July 2008
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. July 28, 2008. I was out of town for about a week so I had someone water the garden and agree to harvest anything that looked ready to go ie: orange cherry tomatoes, lettuce, an eggplant. They did a great job. Nonetheless I came back to an assortment of good and bad things:. A) tons of ripe and ENORMOUS food: all 3 types of eggplant, cherry tomatoes, jalapenos, cucumbers and beets. The Bad (and often ugly):.
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: Fox Urine or Irish Spring?
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. May 28, 2008. Fox Urine or Irish Spring? So far this spring I have lost 2 lettuce seedlings and 2 kale seedlings. I believe the culprits are rabbits for the following reasons:. 1) I have seen bunnies in and around the garden (they're damn cute by the way, for evil things). 2) The entire top of the plant gets lopped off with a tiny bit of the stem sticking out of the ground. 1) Predator Urine - Fox seems to be...
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: May 2009
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. May 27, 2009. My Vegetables are not Vegetarian. This Saturday I planted just about everything. It's a bit earlier than the dude where I picked up my seedlings suggested, but I feel certain that the plants have a better chance of surviving in the roomy, sunny and compost-ful environment of the garden than they would cramped in their seedling containers on my porch. As part of all this prep however, I realized ...
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: July 2009
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. July 28, 2009. There are some good things happening despite my neglect. Yhe cucumber plants really did climb up the trellis and the cukes are dangling well above the ground, just like I had hoped. Unfortunately, all of the lower leaves seem to have rust colored spots on them. I assume it's some sort of fungus from all the rain, but I've been too lazy to even get to the bottom of it. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: April 2009
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. April 26, 2009. Seedling Experiment - Week 1. So far it's not an abject failure, but I feel sure that my end could be right around the corner. The marigolds sprouted first and looked to be doing pretty well. Then came the arugula and the basil. All looked ok UNTIL after a few days all the seedlings seemed quite tall. This is (from what I hear and read). A sign that the seedlings aren't getting enough light.
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: August 2008
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. August 6, 2008. It seems that the rash of blossom end rot was short lived. I do have one tomato plant that looks pretty awful and which I don't expect to make it. Other than that, things seem to be doing ok. Tomatoes of all shapes and colors are coming out of my garden, ripe and healthy, every few days now. Chill out so I don't run out of steam? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Re-Vision ...
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: January 2009
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. January 27, 2009. I would really like to grow my own seedlings. For a while now I've put growing seedlings on a pedestal, thinking of it as an "advanced" gardening skill that is "out of my league," but that's some seriously pessimistic thinking and I need to get past it. But all the seedlings died. That was 3 years ago though. What I do now is spend a lot of time planning when I'll go to Allandale farm. He se...
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: June 2008
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. June 23, 2008. I don't want to jinx myself so I am crossing my fingers as I type these words: I think this is my best garden season so far. The poppies look great, the mint seems to be doing ok in the sink, the bee bal. M looks as though it's about to bloom and I've managed to survive the early bunny attacks. I'm already starting to get a few green tomatoes and its still just June! I'm still a bit tentative (...
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: June 2009
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Adventures in my Urban Garden. MISHAPS AND ACCIDENTAL MIRACLES IN THE LIFE OF A NOVICE GARDENER. June 29, 2009. I was away in California and then NJ for about 10 days and, as is the norm when traveling during the season, I worried about my garden while I was away. Luckily it rained almost the entire time I was gone and all of the next week. Unluckily, that meant I had a lot of weeding to do this weekend. It took about 2 hours and I got MOST of the weeding done. But it's early and I'm anticipating a swarm.
