Strawberries and tomatoes

As it happens, yesterday I wasn’t able to harvest my own alpine strawberry seeds. By the time I arrived to the garden, early morning, little plastic box in hand, the pretty strawberry I had photographed the day before was gone. As it happens, I also ordered seeds and they came today – so my preparations [...]

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Upstairs, downstairs berries

In the garden, a wild strawberry is ripening. Tomorrow I shall eat it and harvest the seeds which I’ll immediately plant Upstairs, one of the wineberries saplings I planted there will produce fruit .

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Upstairs, Downstairs update

Upstairs, the raspberry is starting to produce buds It’s later than last year, but the cold weather might have had a role. Downstairs, the wineberries are full of buds, some of which had opened .Also, some wild strawberries are coming in I had propped up the wineberries and potato in the garden – the rain [...]

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Gardening Club – May 5

Today we started the children’s plot at Dias Y Flores. The kids prepped the soil – digging and adding compost .After that, they planted a wineberry bush ,some strawberries , ,and some chives .The morning glories seeds planted last week sprouted by the garden fence .and also, the scarlet runners on the roof .This is [...]

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On the roof: raspberry, seedlings and such

I transplanted my raspberry in a bigger pot a few days ago It’s doing way better than my hands that suffered a bit because of the pulling the plant out of the old pot. I also planted some gogosar and tomato seedlings from the cold frame and one of the cloned wineberries from the plot

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Gardening club: planting fence coverings

We started our session on the roof where we planted scarlet runner beans .along the roof fence facing 1st Avenue .this way, when the beans will start climbing .they’ll be visible to them from the street when they leave school .Later we went to the garden and planted morning glory seeds also along the fence [...]

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Gardening club: planting seedlings and more seeds

The second session of the gardening club took place in Dias Y Flores garden. We planted some of the Hyacinth beans seedlings .and a week later they look like this .We also planted some spinach and mustard seeds .still waiting for them to come up Next week: planting scarlet runners on the roof

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Seedlings are growing

The February 16 batch is doing well. Out of the 12 seeds we all planted we got 8 plants so far The tallest ones are the watermelons – not something one should plant in February. They sprouted within days. The next largest is a gogosar, then a tomato and 2 tiny delphiniums – there’s a [...]

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April in the garden

Last week, on a warm day in the 60′s I became impatient and moved some of my seedlings outside. There were several nights with temperatures in the 30s and some cool days too, but the cold frame did its job Click here to add text Click here to add text nicely. Somehow, the humidity from [...]

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Seeds are growing

Gogosar, tomatoes, moon flower, nepetella – everything is coming along nicely. Click here to add text Click here to add text Eggplants – not so much. Click here to add text Click here to add text

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