This is the first week I haven’t gotten out on a Wednesday or Thursday evening to take pictures of my garden. If you continue on, I’ll tell you why. Last Sunday, I got up admitting defeat. The blight had taken over my tomatoes and my life. I spent so much time on trying to save [...]

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Even though my tomatoes continue to look very sad, I’m still getting some now and then that are solid and taste good so I’m not going to give up yet. For example, here’s one of my Pink German Queen tomatoes (for size comparison, I’ve put one of the large cherry tomatoes next to it). I [...]

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I’d planned to wait until my my regular Thursday garden update to share what I’m doing. However, if it works to help save even a fraction of what’s out there, I would feel selfish because I hadn’t posted it sooner. It may not work at all but it may, too. It may well be it’s [...]

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My father-in-law would use that phrase whenever he wanted to express something happening that wasn’t a good thing. He wouldn’t pronounce it “hour”, though. It was “ARE”. And it is a sad are. He knew how to say it correctly but it seemed to be a more depressed statement being mispronounced. Here’s the sad state [...]

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I had to go to the big city today for a meeting about “Information Flow Gap Analysis-Patient Data Intake”. I won’t go into the details but it did prove to be quite interesting to see the differences in each area. I think it blew the IT person’s mind. Anyway, that’s not what I’m getting to. [...]

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If you put your pointer on each picture, you can see what it represents. The biggest cuke is about five inches long already. I can almost see it grow. I bought the cage you can see in the background at the Farmers’ Co-Op for $5. A little steep for a tad of wire but it [...]

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I’ve tried to find tomato cages for my cucumbers without any success. The variety is Burpless and they like to climb. If left to their own devices, they will sprawl over the ground and the resulting cukes curl up and assume all sorts of weird shapes. When I grew these before, I put the long [...]

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I’ve been putting my new camera to good use. Day before yesterday, I went out and did a tour with commentary. I didn’t want to wait until the last day (today) to do it since it would be my first effort at posting something on youtube. It’s a good thing I gave me plenty of [...]

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I’m on the lookout for free amendments for my garden. One of the ladies from the church went to an organic gardening workshop put on my the local conference but everything they mention has to be bought. I want FREE. I need to pay nada nothing zero dollars. I started Googling again when a couple [...]

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I will go to any lengths (within reason) to have good results with my Square Foot Garden this year. Last year, it was too much in the shade plus I don’t think it was an excellent mix, either. With my neighbors’ help, I believe this will be much better. Sometimes it needs a little more, [...]

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