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Garden Update – April 6, 2012

Today, I transplanted about 20 pepper plants that I started from seed back in February. Two weeks ago I transplanted 9 tomato plants and an eggplant. I’ve got these packed in pretty tight among some onion that was planted back … Continue reading

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Garden Update: June 6, 2011

The main purpose of this post is to offer photographic proof that I’m not a 100% tomato growing failure.  I have a pretty good harvest of tomatoes, and I might get a few more weeks of growing season before the … Continue reading

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Garden Update – May 6, 2011

Everything is my garden is growing along pretty nicely.  Out of all my beds, the new bed with 100% imported soil is doing the best.  I think my next project will be to add another 12″ of height to my … Continue reading

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Garden Update – April 3, 2011

I think I’m about done planting for the spring!  I have a little room left in my aquaponics bed, and some space left in the bed by the gate, but I’m mostly done.  I didn’t plant any corn because I … Continue reading

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Garden Update – March 14, 2011

Lettuce and Spinach sprouts are coming up from seed that I just scattered on the gravel growbed.  I figure about half of the seed turned into seedlings.  This is the easiest planting I’ve ever done!  Zero digging, zero watering, just … Continue reading

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Garden Update – March 8, 2011

I went to North Haven Gardens today to use my $15 gift certificate, and couldn’t pass up some of the things they had.  One of the ladies there encouraged me to put tomato plants out in the soil already!  I … Continue reading

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Garden Update – March 1, 2011

I transplanted my 16 tomato seedlings into bigger pots (free pots made from newspaper)  They are all doing very well, some of them are a little bigger than others.  It looked like some of them were being shaded by nearby … Continue reading

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Progress of Seedlings

Most of the seedlings are doing great.  A handful of them are questionable from the last batch of pepper seeds.  I was wondering if they were going to live in the freezing cold garage, but they did.  Since today was … Continue reading

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Garden Update – January 27, 2011

The plan this year is to focus more on companion planting. I’m going to space my tomato plants out so that no two plants are touching or near each other. I’m surrounding each tomato plant with onions, and planting cucumber … Continue reading

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Garden Update – January 24, 2011

Seeing a picture of someone else’s seedlings reminded me that I had tomato seeds planted in a box on top of the refrigerator.  Good thing I decided to look at them, because then already sprouted.  The pepper plants are doing … Continue reading

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