tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81883489766448213252011-08-23T07:44:11.977-04:00Our garden adventuresusienoreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188348976644821325.post-46226239993691710442010-07-13T22:25:00.003-04:002010-07-13T22:25:33.370-04:00

We know that pachysandra is the perfect shade plant. I absolutely love it. We planted it a few years back under our huge backyard trees.  A few weeks ago, my friend Franz wanted to plant some pachysandra under his shady trees. He had this big idea for planting... drilling holes into the earth and putting one plant in each hole. It worked like a charm. And it went so fast, so so fast! Here's

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These are my first pictures of the garden this year, taken a few weeks back. Things have already changed since then! But I need to show the first pictures. I'm excited! Swiss chard Another view

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I left gardening last summer after a nasty case of blight ravaged my tomatos. We had a light harvest of potatoes, which were very good. I just planted a new garden today... I realize that it's late to get started on June 5. But still. I have planted mostly tomatoes and peppers. It's a small plot in my own yard. I'll take a photo tomorrow. I'm tired after a long day's work. Hoping for a

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Can you believe this little guy I dug up today? It was the smallest potato in the patch but he was definitely worth harvesting. He makes me so happy! Mr. Pee Wee Potato Head!Bruce told me that because of the blight we should check our potatoes, as late blight might spread to them. They looked fine, so far. I harvested a few of them and cooked them up for lunch. A joy!Today's potato harvest and

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Yes, it is really happening. I've been worried for a while, ever since I heard Mike McGrath talk about late blight on his radio show You Bet Your Garden And now my worst fears have come true. I was sick about it for a while but have now accepted it. Everyone's tomatos in the garden are affected. The experts say it's best to pull the plants out and bag them -- throw them out with the trash. But as

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Randy, a very nice gardener in our community garden, is always spraying his plants with a homemade concoction. Everything in his garden looks so great, so it must work. It's sure to keep critters away, especially those little white flies that gather on tomato plants (I forget the name). I asked Randy for the recipe so here it is. (And the plants have great breath, too!)Randy's anti-critter

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Here is the compost pile Bruce told us about. It's a ways away from our plots so I had to take the wheel barrow down and load it up a few times. I met a man walking his puppy. At first he didn't know I was there (I was behind the trees in the muck and all) and he was talking up a storm to his puppy. It was cute to see. (I didn't take any photos of him.)Bruce told us to keep piling compost on our

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These shots are from our first days of planting. They were taken in late on June 1. Ok, so we got a late start.

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The Red Wheelbarrowby William Carlos Williams-----------so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.(OK, so this is green and not red, and there are no chickens. Still, it was a rainy day and it is a wheel barrow! And it did make me think of the poem, which is lovely, don't you agree?)

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Our plot is so small (about 10 ft x 10 ft) but this is the way we've planned it. It's very cute.

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Ulf and I started an organic vegetable garden about two weeks ago. It is at a community garden plot at a local historical site called Harriton House. More information on what we planted is forthcoming, along with a cute drawing of what is where. The plot itself is only about 10 ft x 10 ft, but still...We are loving going over there every few days or so in the early morning or in the evening and

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