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| Fall sunset over my house. |
I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted anything. Let's just say that the severe heat of summer sucked the gardening life right out of me. I did have huge success with flowers so at least the yard and garden looked good. I had success (very very little) success with veggies but overall it was pretty discouraging. I had minimal luck with canteloupe, watermelon, tomatoes, and even the zucchini didn't like this weird summer. Oh well. So I focused the last part of the summer on ammending the soil, composting and clearing out pests. I threw in bone and blood meal, fish emulsion, and even my homemade "chicken juice" hoping that the fall/winter season would be better. Well, it's now officially fall planting season and I my gardening spirit has been renewed once again. The drop in temperature and the soil nutrients has renewed my weary plants as well. Peppers of all kinds are setting fruit. So cool! Volunteer tomatoes are blooming and fruiting too. Armenian cucumbers are everywhere, zucchini, lettuce, herbs, radishes, tomatillos, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, peas, kohl rabi, beans, onions and garlic are all thriving and I should have a home grown salad in no time. Even the potato project survived the summer, barely. I ate 5 small potatoes this summer and should have more soon. Whew! I was beginning to think I was a complete failure but there seems to be hope. More to come....
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| Pumpkin |
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| Jalepenos |
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| Tomatillos Oct 23, 2013 |
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| Wyatt 1 year. |
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Armenian Cucumber
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| Woohoo. First canteloupe! |
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| First Potatoes! |
