Tag Archives: Vegetables

Frost Warnings

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 – 10:01 am

We are getting our first frost warnings this week so I have had a chance to start using my GardenQuilt row cover which should protect down to 24F and has 60% light transmission (so I pull it off during the day once it warms up.) I bought a 10′x20′ piece of GardenQuilt and used most [...]

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Otis Orchard

Monday, August 10, 2009 – 9:32 am

Yesterday afternoon some of our friends came over and we drove out to one of Shannon’s co-workers organic u-pick farm in Otis Orchard. Can you believe we bought all this food for $7?
We started off picking a bucket full of bush snap beans. It was $6 for a bucket, which we split three ways. [...]

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Transplants

Monday, May 11, 2009 – 1:19 pm

This weekend my raised beds and I spent some quality time together.
I transplanted 3 black beauty zucchini because I am a sucker for punishment, 5 sugar pie pumpkins because I adore giant orange things, cilantro and red onions and yellow onions. I also have purple haze carrots and mammoth dill directly sown and hopefully working [...]

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Mesclun Forest

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 – 2:55 pm
Mesclun Forest
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Herbs and Peppers

Friday, May 9, 2008 – 2:37 pm

My parsley, basil and chives have all sprouted! The parsley was the last to come up, which was expected, but it is already taller then the basil. I am waiting for secondary leaves. I am not sure if I should thin the chives, aren’t they suppose to grow in clumps? (If you cannot tell, I’ve [...]

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