Last week I picked one of my cucumbers and ate it! It was firm, sweet, and delicious. I have another one that’s growing and I think I’m going to wait until the middle of the week to pick it. It’s amazing how quickly plants can grow. It seems that my tomato plants have doubled in [...]
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It is so fun to go into the backyard and visit my garden now because everything is either flowering, or the “baby vegetables” are visible. My sugar snap peas are growing like weeds, and I was able to pick a handful and snack on them last week. My squash plants have beautiful yellow flowers, but [...]
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ORIGINALLY POSTED TO THE TGP FORUM ON JULY 6, 2010.
Soooooo, the sun has finally decided to come outside and play and the strawberries have followed! I never knew that strawberry fruit literally grew out of the flower of the strawberry plant. The strawberries from my garden are small, deep red, and delicious. My [...]
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Tags: Ebony Martin, moles, pests, racoons, Scott McGowan, Stawberries, summer, sun, warm, weather, wildlife
ORIGINALLY POSTED TO THE TGP FORUM ON JUNE 22, 2010.
Anyone who lives in Seattle knows that we haven’t had the best weather this month. I heard a meteorologist on the news refer to this month as “Juneuary” and I feel that the tag is well deserved – especially since the cold snap [...]
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Tags: cold snap, Ebony Martin, june, moles, pests, Scott McGowan, seattle, snap peas, summer, trial and error, weather
ORIGINALLY POSTED TO THE TGP FORUM ON JUNE 1, 2010.
Last Monday (May 24th) Scott and I planted more seeds: green beans, sweet basil, and zucchini squash. I am going to start my herb garden in the house, and am planning on using egg crates to plant the seeds. Once the seeds start [...]
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Soooo, I met with Scott (my garden coach) on Monday, and we planted some things! My backyard is pretty overgrown with weeds, blackberry bushes, and there are even a few fallen tree branches. To say that I thought the work to prep my garden would be overwhelming is an understatement. However once we got started, time flew by pretty quickly.
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