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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
There’s some exciting things in the garden this week! Take a look: Not really sure how this snuck past me until it was the size of a tennis ball, but we have a baby watermelon! I’m actually very impressed by this plant so far, especially if I can avoid thinking…
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Continue reading →: Bean Mosaic Virus?
One of our Chinese Long Bean plants has just looked a little bit strange since it started growing, but I just let it keep growing. Here’s a leaf as it looks right now. Can you kind of see the random mottling (almost mosaic) pattern of light and dark green? That…
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Continue reading →: Figuring Out Peppers
Peppers are always a lot of fun to grow because there are so many different types. In our Family of 4 Garden this year, we have bell peppers, Italian roasting peppers, banana peppers, jalapenos, sweet snack peppers, and chili peppers. In the Asian Garden, we have 3 different peppers: Shishito,…
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Continue reading →: Family of 4 Garden Update
At this point, I’m predicting that the Family of 4 Garden this year is going to out-produce the garden from last year, at least dollar-wise. I could be wrong, but there’s a lot of the season left, and we’ve barely started the summer vegetable season! We harvested about 1/2 to…
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Continue reading →: Baby Long Beans!
Remember that I told you last Friday that our beautiful Chinese long bean flowers would be turning into baby long beans this week? They are even bigger than I expected by today! (Okay, so they probably were there already on Friday, just tiny enough that I didn’t notice them.) The…