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‘Eversweet’ Strawberry
Our everbearing strawberry, ‘Eversweet,’ is starting to produce. (Technically it is a day-neutral strawberry, not everbearing.) As is typical with everbearing strawberries, the fruit are medium to...
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Strawberry Update
Our strawberry patch is gearing up for the next go-round of ripe fruit. A couple weeks ago there were tons of flowers, and now we have some nice fruit coming on. The strawberry we have planted,...
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Friday PhotoEssay
We’ve made it to Friday again! Here’s what we’ve seen around the garden this week. The Watch Celosia now has these huge crested heads. The leaves are starting to get a purplish cast due to the cooler...
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Friday PhotoEssay – Signs of Spring Edition
You know spring is coming when green things start popping up. You also can tell it is spring when pictures of those tiny green shoots and buds are exciting. By July we will think these pictures are...
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Friday PhotoEssay
According to the rain gauge in the garden, we’ve gotten about 1.25″ of rain in the last 24 hours or so. That seems a little low to me. Maybe our rain gauge has a hole in it. At any rate, we’ll take the...
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Strawberries!
I went out to the garden this morning and scrounged around in the wet, soggy strawberry patch until I found a handful of mostly okay strawberries. Between the roly polys enjoying the wet weather and...
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Friday PhotoEssay
Well, it’s finally raining. I just wish it would keep raining. Luckily the radar looks like there’s more rain coming. Our grafted tomatoes aren’t looking stupendous. I think they were just too small...
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Harvest Report
We had a modest harvest from the Family of 4 Garden today, and a whole lot of strawberries. DON’T try this at home! This is 5.25 pounds of strawberries. If you stack them up like this for too long, you...
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Friday PhotoEssay
This week has been something of a whirlwind, and with the garden at something of a standstill, thanks to the crazy weather this summer, I feel like not much has changed in the last week to show you. I...
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Strawberry Crunch Muffins
I am so glad it is the beginning of Strawberry season. Strawberries are so fun and delicious. They are low in calories and are an excellent source of vitamin C. This week’s recipe features this...
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2014 Garden Plans: Bed 5 – Annual Strawberries
We haven’t had any fruit in the Demo Garden since we renovated a couple years ago, so it is going to be fun to have some strawberries again. What we are trying this year are two varieties of Day...
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Planting Strawberries
If you recall, one of the beds in the Demo Garden this year is designated for “annual” strawberries. That is perhaps a bit of a misnomer, because the plants themselves are still technically perennials....
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Friday PhotoEssay – April 4th
We’re going to get started with Friday PhotoEssays again, although I can’t promise you that I won’t still miss one or two until things really ramp up this spring. (If we were farther north, I would...
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Friday PhotoEssay – April 25th
We made it to Friday, and we didn’t get more than a few drops of rain. Grr. As much as I don’t appreciate the severe weather in the forecast, we could really use a couple inches of rain. And then a...
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Garden Work Day in April Weather
Yesterday, although it felt more like April rather than mid-May, we forged ahead with planting our vining vegetables anyway! I’m just tired of waiting on the weather’s pleasure, and the soil is...
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Friday PhotoEssay
The garden here is loving all the rain for a change! I guess that is the flip side of our sandy soil – when it is dry it is really dry, but when it is wet it is only kind of wet instead of soggy....
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Friday PhotoEssay – August 8th
It rained again! Quite a bit actually. The rain gauge in the garden only measured about 2″, but I hadn’t realized that the Cuban Oregano had kind of grown over it. So…we’re just guessing. Then again,...
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2015 Garden Plans: Strawberries
We had so much trouble getting the strawberries established last year that we are giving them another chance! The plants that finally started to thrive are going to stay, even though they are kind of a...
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Friday PhotoEssay: March 27th
We’ve had two work days over the last two weeks and one hailstorm. Most of the cleanup involved removing a few remaining dead plants, raking up the remaining straw from last year, and collecting leaves...
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A Little…or Big…Update
If you are a regular reader, you have probably noticed that updates on what we’re actually doing in the garden are pretty sparse this spring. In fact, non-existent up to this point. I know I’ve set you...
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