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Continue reading →: How Fast This Garden Grows!
I don’t know why, but it still amazes me how fast the garden grows when I’m not there to watch it all weekend! That kabocha squash from last week? At least tripled in size! And I have no idea where this Kazakh melon came from! These Ronde de Nice squash…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssayWhew! It has been hot this week! Of course, the vines are still growing fast. I’m beginning to wonder if our poor, late planted, stunted tomato plants are going to do anything at all this year. I’m not overly optimistic. At least we have the hanging basket tomatoes! The ornamental…
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Continue reading →: Viewing the Vertical Garden
With all the heat, our vine crops are having a ball and growing like crazy. I took some pictures earlier in the week of the different plants to gauge where they are at in starting to produce. Mostly I was looking for the presence of flowers, and if flowers were…
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Continue reading →: First Harvest & Garden Work Day
We have our first harvest out of the Demo Garden today! We have several of the ‘Sweet Gourmet’ squash from the Mexican garden, a ‘Gretel’ eggplant from our wheelchair accessible container garden, 2 ‘Rocky’ snack cucumbers, and 3 zucchini from the Family of 4 Garden. The 3 zucchini weighed…
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Continue reading →: Wilting Squash Vines…Well, That’s a Bad Sign!I took a bunch of pictures of all the of vine plants this morning to take an early season tour through the Vertical Garden, and everything was looking pretty good, for the most part. Then I stepped out of the office for a couple minutes this afternoon to take a…