Latest Blog Posts

The following items provide links to the blog posts. The items are ordered by date (in reverse order) starting with the most recent blog post.

  • Gardening Diary – June 10, 2020

    Gardening Diary – June 10, 2020

    Additional picture (1) taken today: Sentimental Blue Balloon Flower [Platycodon grandiflorus ‘Sentimental Blue’]. Picture taken on June 10, 2020. Other pictures taken today are shown in yesterday’s post.

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  • Gardening Diary – June 9, 2020

    Gardening Diary – June 9, 2020

    Continued weeding and pruning the Sedum / Iris bed and the bushes bed. When the dogs came outside, I started weeding the original bed. Raised bed #5 Picture taken on June 10, 2020. Sharon planted … in raised bed #5. I installed a spinner in each half of the bed.…

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  • Gardening Diary – June 6, 2020

    Gardening Diary – June 6, 2020

    Purple Smoke Bush bed. Picture taken on June 7, 2020. Dave pruned the plants in the Purple Smoke Bush bed. Placed the contents of 2 bags of PRO-MIX Organic Garden Mix 2CF Compressed Soil on raised bed #5. Sharon put fertilizer around some of the plants in raised beds #2-4.…

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  • Gardening Diary – June 4, 2020

    Gardening Diary – June 4, 2020

    Raised bed #6. Picture taken on June 4, 2020 Evened out the soil in raised bed #6. In raised bed #1, Sharon planted Oregon Sugar Pod II Peas, Detroit Dark Red Beets and Royal Purple Radishes. Raised beds #2-4. Picture taken on June 4, 2020 While Sharon was planting, I…

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  • Gardening Diary – June 1, 2020

    Gardening Diary – June 1, 2020

    Raised beds #7-8. Picture taken on June 1, 2020. Finished weeding in the Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood bed and pruning the Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood. Installed the hose for the new irrigation system for raised beds #5-8. Additional photograph (1) taken today: Red Twig Dogwood [Cornus sericea]. Picture taken on…

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  • Gardening Diary – May 30, 2020

    Gardening Diary – May 30, 2020

    Raised beds #1-4 Picture taken May 30, 2020. Installed the new hose for the irrigation system in raised beds #1-4 and added outlets in each of the halves of these beds. Removed the irrigation system from the raised beds #5-8. Tomatoes Picture taken May 30, 2020. Strawberry tower Picture taken…

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