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Continue reading →: The Melon Saga Continues…
Today was an exciting day in the Demonstration Garden! We not only finally did some of our fall planting (we’ll see how that goes for us in a couple weeks), but we got to harvest our sole, lonely watermelon. After some deliberation, we decided that we should pick it, as…
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Continue reading →: Plants That Keep On Going
I think the heat has sapped any intelligent gardening thoughts clean out of my head. Or maybe it’s that there isn’t much exciting/blog-worthy happening in the Demonstration Garden right now. In fact, I really wasn’t expecting to see much in the garden this morning other than scorched plants that are…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Either the garden wasn’t very photogenic this week, or I wasn’t feeling particularly artistic in my picture taking. At any rate, I only have a few pictures this week. The ‘Rose’ tomato plant waited awhile to start producing, but I’ve now picked 4 tomatoes in the last 10 days. Not…
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Continue reading →: Fall Garden Plans
As promised, here are the two Fall Gardens that I’m planning on right now. This garden is mostly a planting date test, as well as a test to see how much of the winter the spinach will still be harvestable. It will also be interesting to see which plantings of…
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Continue reading →: Quick Harvest Update
The Family of 4 Harvest was pretty minimal today. 1/4 lb of jalapenos @ $2.50/lb = $0.63 1.2 lbs of tomatoes @ $2.00/lb = $2.40 1 cucumber @ $0.75/each = $0.75 0.25 lb of zucchini @ $1.50/lb = $0.38 Weekly Total = $4.15 Yearly Total = $180.23 We could be…