Category: Straw bale beds #1-8
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Gardening Diary – July 28, 2021
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Tomatoes, Orient Express Eggplant, Yellow Summer Squash, Zucchini, Yellow Straightneck Squash Picture taken July 28, 2021 Harvested Tomatoes, Orient Express Eggplant, Yellow Summer Squash, Zucchini, Yellow Straightneck Squash from the straw bale beds. Additional photographs (4) taken today: Surprise Lilies [Lycoris squamigera] Picture taken on July 28, 2021. Eggplant. [Solanum…
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Gardening Diary – July 20, 2021
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Butterfly Bush bed Picture taken on July 21, 2021. Finished weeding and laying down a double layer of cardboard on the Butterfly Bush bed. Finished covering this bed with 11 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch. Cucumber and Tomato Picture taken July 21, 2021 by Sharon. Sharon…
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Gardening Diary – July 8, 2021
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Tomatoes Picture taken on July 9, 2021. Sharon pruned and provided more support for the Tomatoes in the straw bale beds. Sharon harvest from the straw bale beds. Picture taken on July 8, 2021. Sharon harvested Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Yellow Summer Squash and 2 other unknown kinds of Squash. Right…
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Gardening Diary – June 14, 2021
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Vanilla Marigolds [Tagetes “Vanilla”] Picture taken June 14, 2021 Sharon planted the rest of the Vanilla Marigolds that we had purchased. Sharon started weeding the spice raised bed (#6). Removed the large weeds from the bed along the right fence from the utility shed to the cross fence. Watered the…
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Gardening Diary – June 13, 2021
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Coleus and Double Play Doozie® Spirea [Solenostemon scutellarioides], [Spiraea x] Picture taken June 14, 2021. Turned on the irrigation system for the straw bale beds and hand watered the plants which were added this year except those that were in the straw bale beds.
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Gardening Diary – May 25, 2021
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Lenten Rose Bed Picture taken on May 25, 2021. Moved the quarter circle shelving from the Sedum/Iris bed to the Lenten Rose bed. Watered the straw bale beds. Other photographs (5) taken today: Border Lilies [Lilium sp.] Picture taken on May 25, 2021. Iris [Iris sp.] Picture taken on May…
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Gardening Diary – May 21, 2021
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Buddha Belly [Jatropha podagrica]. Picture taken on May 21, 2021. As we finally moved from early spring time weather but to middle summer time weather, moved the Buddha Belly from the porch to the same place in the second bulb bed that it occupied last year. Straw bale bed #7 Picture…
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Gardening Diary – May 14, 2021
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In straw bale beds, Sharon planted Pruden Purple Tomatoes Picture taken on May 14, 2021. and California Wonder Peppers and Orient Express F1 Eggplant Picture taken on May 14, 2021. The 6 California Wonder Peppers were obtained from CAC Beardsley Community Farm. The Pruden Purple Tomatoes and the Orient Express…
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Gardening Diary – May 13, 2021
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Sharon put diatomaceous earth on some of the vegetables in the straw bale beds. Then Sharon pruned the dead remains of last year’s growth of the Strawberries in the Strawberry tower. Lenten Roses bed. Picture taken May 13, 2021. Started weeding the Lenten Roses bed. Additional photographs (6) taken today:…
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Gardening Diary – April 20, 2021
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Weed-eated all but 3 walkways (walkway along the original bed, along the left fence and along the Sedum/Iris bed) in the backyard along with part of the walkways in the back bed. Sharon fertilizing the Tomatoes. Picture taken April 20, 2021. Sharon fertilized the Tomatoes with (a tomato fertilizer) and…