The week before your first expected frost requires flexibility and time. As well as sanitized pots, sanitized soil and space. The Average First Frost Date for my area is October 1st. About a week before this date, I begin obsessing about the forecast. After a few days with concurring agreement between different weather source regarding …
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All plants grown in the high wind prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil is a loamy clay. Although my preference is organic, I have used commercial fertilizers from time to time. Gardening personality relaxed and experimental, purist about very little. Growing Days approximately 135 Authors are HUMAN, …
I garden because I want to taste delicious things. I garden because I want every excuse to walk barefoot in the grass with the sun blessing down on me, and end the day sweaty with a dirt smudged face. I garden because I like sitting in the tomato cave I made, same as I played …
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The second week of June is pretty exciting for this gardener. Most plants, in particular the tomatoes and squash, will double in size between June 5 and June 15th. I assume most gardeners have a week or two where the same happens, just on a different timeframe dependent on climate and garden environment. Early-mid June …
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~ Summer Squash Zucchini – Costata Romanesco Zucchini – Cocozelle Zucchini – Golden Zebra Scallop – Mix Yellow Crookneck Winter Squash Cucurbita Moschata – of the three primary squash cultivars, the thicker stems of the C.Moschata assist greatest in it’s resistance to the squash vine borer successfully burrowing into the plant, compared to the other …
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Varieties with notes N = New to me My smaller varieties: Agi Red (red and orange striped) – FavoriteBlack Vernissage (black and red) Cherry Punch – N?Green Doctors (green) – (yr 2)Italian Ice (pale yellow) – (yr 2)Juliet – NLucky Agi (tricolor)Lucky Tiger (tricolor)Napa Chardonnay Blush (yellow) – NPink Bumblebee (pink and red striped) – …
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July is busy. The first month where the harvest is reliably colorful and supplies a decent meal beyond greens, here up north.
It’s also the end of that precious timeframe where the garden doesn’t require a great deal of clean-up. Up here, not much has died yet.
But it’s coming.
I don’t know, let’s see. Today is July 18th. I have commenced fall planting, which hurts me to say honestly. This last winter was a long slog heartbreaker and summer flies by too fast. I am not ready for anything fall. Two years ago, the first frost was not until the day before Halloween. An …
Infrastructure week, lol. Two week ago was large project week. I stained the deck, detailed my car, took refuse to the landfill, steam-cleaned some carpets. Some good things to get done. This week I have a list of many smaller projects to complete. It’ll be great for those of us who like the satisfaction of …
All plants grown in the high wind prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil is a loamy clay. Although my preference is organic, I have used commercial fertilizers from time to time. Gardening personality relaxed and experimental, purist about very little. Growing Days approximately 135 I like to …
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