Category Archives: 5. May
The Garden Lives!
From March until May we live in a constant state of worrying about the seedlings — Are they getting enough sun? Are they big enough? Are they getting watered enough? Did we even plant anything on time?! Finally May rolls … Continue reading
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The Garden, On Its Way Into Memorial Day
We made a vow this year to be better about documenting our garden’s progress, and now that we’ve got something planted in every bed it seems like a good time to take stock. The big turning point in every planting … Continue reading
The State Of Our Garden, Through A Different Lens
Last week we found ourselves outside after work, releasing ladybugs around our apple trees (for aphid control. Who knows how well it works? We’ve seen neither hide nor hair of the ladybugs since. Yeah, we just got played for fools … Continue reading
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Radish Harvest Redux
Okay, last weekend we pulled up two dime-sized radishes and called it a harvest. This weekend our radish chevron had filled in considerably… …so we had a much more substantial haul: Those are French Breakfast and Plum Purple radishes; the … Continue reading
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The Garlicky Fruits Of Spring
The other day Pookie emailed me at work to say, “Check out this link — we need to investigate this green garlic thing!” I proceeded to spend a delightful afternoon reading the rest of Farmgirl Susan’s wonderful blog, and then … Continue reading
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Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day: May Edition
We discovered the fantastically wonderful blog project Gardener Blogger’s Bloom Day on May Dreams Garden last month, just after the cut off for April’s Bloom Day submission. We’ve spent the last just-under-a-month giddy with excitement for our first Bloom Day. … Continue reading
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Maple Hoo’s First Harvest Of 2008
WOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! We had our first harvest today! Pookie calculated when we planted the first wave of radishes and when the package said they’d be ready to harvest, and she came up with last weekend as the target date. It … Continue reading
A Day Of Toiling In The Fields
We had what we thought was a little bit of non-labor-intensive garden work to do today, but, as so often happens, it ended up being a vast undertaking of various odds-and-ends planting and tending chores. The first thing we did … Continue reading
