The Aerogardens are chugging along. The pictures above are from late January. All the herbs (above) did quite well, although the basils seemed particularly happy. They are still going strong, although the purple basil is getting somewhat odd looking leaves. The dill also did well, but a few weeks ago it just died, although it had not gone to seed. The mint has more or less overwhelmed the parsely at this point. . . .
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My future herb garden is growing well under the lights. It is my first time growing this many herbs from seed. Can't wait until it is time to plant them outside. . . .
On April 19th I met my sister in Ithaca, NY. She is a graduate of Cornell University, and has made many visits since then. We were going to the ACNARGS meeting in the afternoon, but first she wanted...
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It may be a cold spring, but in the cloche, it's another world. The borage is blooming. It will be a long time before we see blooming borage in the world outside the cloche. . . .
Here's a shot of one of the small things I'm doing to help reduce my footprint. I use a drip irrigation system. This photo is the top of my upside down tomato planter. I decided to plant pees that will vine up the hangers. The tomato probably won't make it becaues it's so hot these days. To set fruit most tomatoes need 75 degree nights.
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Posted by ldybug Reblogged by Old Roses to tools, watering on 2008-04-24, 06:24:40
I kept passing by the asparagus bed last week. Each time I frowned because this is what I saw. This may not look bad to you, but this patch normally produces more asparagus than my family can eat. Do you see those spindly spears? At first, I thought it just needed manure. [...]
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on Apr 23, 2008, 10:27PM
Posted by Dee Reblogged by Old Roses to tools, weeds on 2008-04-24, 06:08:39
As a self-confessed gadget obsessive, I'm both optimistic and cynical when new products hit the market. Not that garden spray nozzles are particularly new but as hose fittings they've come a long way since the technological achievements of the twist head sprayer.
In fact, it was probably the twist head that paved the way for these new fan-dangled multi-sprayers. Where once we were excited with the amount of control we could brandish over our watering tasks, we can no longer settle for gradual increments from jet to spray. It always has to be more. . . .
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on Apr 17, 2008, 6:44PM
Ah, the lawn-mowing season is upon us. In many parts of the country the grass is already sprouting up in all its green glory, which means the first cut isn't far away.
If you're in the market for a new mower to start off the season, here are a few questions to get you started. . ..
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Posted by Julie Reblogged by Old Roses to lawn, tools on 2008-04-18, 06:05:37
This week wrote an article entitled, Recycling in the Vegetable Garden, focusing on ways gardeners can use items that are on their way to the landfill in and around their gardens. Repurposing old junk and pieces of worn out wooden furniture and building supplies is part of a sustainable lifestyle. It just plain feels good to keep stuff out of the garbage and find a new way to use something.
I’ve always loved garden “junk”…from my friend Sarah’s garden junk edging, an eclectic blend of items like old iron posts, reclaimed bricks, pretty stones and hydro insulators to a cleverly placed wooden chair or ladder in a vegetable patch. . .
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on Apr 17, 2008, 7:15AM
Posted by Amy Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, tools on 2008-04-18, 06:02:15
This weeks question is a general one that Ive been getting a lot lately and expect to hear even more of, as the season progresses. Its good to answer...
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on Apr 16, 2008, 9:01PM
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My $35 arch kept falling over. It has no spikes or extra long legs to anchor it to the ground. I know from my experience with the cedar arbor that using plants to anchor structures can be disastrous. I ended up staking the arch to the ground with 100 lb wire and bright yellow stakes. . . .
The doorbell rang Friday afternoon and when I opened the door, there on my front porch, sat a box with the picture of a Gilmour Reel Mower on it. I brought it in the house, opened it up, and that's exactly what was in it. Ten minutes and six nuts and bolts later, the mower was ready for use, including the grass catcher.
Too bad our lawn wasn't. But I was anxious to try it out, so we took it outside and I pushed it the length of the front lawn, just to get a feel for things. I'd never pushed a reel mower before, and judging from the varied comments I'd received from my earlier post about them, I didn't know what to expect. . . .
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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to lawn, tools on 2008-04-14, 18:20:39
In El Paso they fret over wintering plants. So they build them a greenhouse or two. And you would do well to follow suit, so you too can have happy and healthy cactus this time of year. And hothouse tomatoes too. From the El Paso Times.
(H)e's getting a jump-start by growing some (tomatoes) from seed in a greenhouse at the demonstration garden at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center, off Interstate 10 East and Americas....
Peter Beste, who has a large cactus garden in the Northeast, uses a greenhouse for cactus from South America.
We just got a desert tortoise, sort of a rescue. I hope our red-foots like her.
During our on again, off again rainy Sunday, I was able to plant some more tomato seeds and put them in the "oven" to sprout. These are Ilidi tomatoes, and the best kind: shared by another gardener! Thanks for sharing, Matron! I can see we'll be doing some fine garden grazing this year. These are the type that don't always make it into the house. . . .
We've been moving forward with our garden building project in fits and starts lately -- more fits than starts, really, given that it's been too wet to do much digging. We're concerned about compacting and damaging the soil if we work on it when it's too wet. . .
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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens, tools on 2008-04-12, 06:08:02
Some things simply prove to be a blessing in disguise! My old digicam developed some strange snag and won’t work howsoever hard I may try, it was pure misery. The first couple of days went showing the thing around to supposedly more electronically oriented friends of mine, but the problem, it seemed, was even beyond their technologically superior brains. It is so remarkable that whenever you are deprived of something, you yearn for it the most; precisely that happened to me as I saw beautiful blooms and butterflies, bees and birds, things I failed to appreciate with a working camera, but were beckoning when the damned camera won’t work.It was then that I decided that the time is ripe to reward myself with a brand new camera, a Sony cybershot H10.
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on Apr 10, 2008, 6:14AM
Cameras are my weakness, I used a SLR, a Pentax K1000 for years. I bought my first digital camera in 1997, it took a picture at 600 X 460 pixels or some such, but I love my toys. I have had several digital cameras since. One of my friends calls me Best Buy Betty..........lol.........and no my name is not Betty but I do love Best Buy.
My latest camera is a Nikon P5100, it takes great pictures, the above photos were in a magazine, I took a picture of the picture :)
It looks like my camera is gone, gone, gone, and what a mental blow it does to my blogging desires. I still have a few pictures left over of some recent bloomers, and I will share those with you. In the meantime, I will be in the market for another Canon EOS 20D...I might need to buy a used one if anyone has any leads, my e-mail is chris@southernbulbs.com I will also let US Airways know about the incident. . . .
The soil is workable. A bit too damp still, but I can ignore that small detail.
As is the case every year, the hubs had the usual fight with the rototiller. Apparently, just add oil and the motor will seize tight as a drum on you after it has started momentarily and then stalled. . . .
This photo was taken last May, when I had arugula, lettuce and cabbage growing inside my row greenhouse. I put it together for 2008 yesterday, and although there is nothing yet growing inside, it is a hopeful sight in the vegetable garden. I hope soon to have radishes, beets, carrots and peas growing inside. . .
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on Apr 6, 2008, 9:58AM
Posted by Amy Reblogged by Old Roses to tools, vegetables on 2008-04-08, 07:08:22
I like to get the pea trellis up before the peas sprout. This year I made a zig-zag trellis from poles and sticks and tie-wrapped a white plastic net to it. It seems a bit wobbly and I may need to reinforce it with more poles later. . . .
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Posted by kathy Reblogged by Old Roses to peas, tools on 2008-04-04, 06:20:01
Wow! What can I say… There were over 5,000 entries for the composter giveaway and I think that I had a record number of comments on that post.
The Composter Giveaway is now closed and a winner has been selected. Robert Fantom from New York is the proud winner of the Urban Compost Bin Tumbler. He. . .
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on Apr 1, 2008, 8:46AM
Posted by Hanna Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, tools on 2008-04-02, 06:17:18
With a streak of cloudy weather, I have resorted to a plant light. I set up a make shift arrangement using my fish tank lighting. I didn't want to burn the little seedlings, so I looked up how much light is OK. . .
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Posted by kathy Reblogged by Old Roses to seedlings, tools on 2008-04-02, 05:52:44
Two different cameras. One a nice point and shoot and the other a higher-end digital SLR with an expensive “L” series lens attached. In this case that comes to about thirty-five hundred dollars difference in equipment costs. It should be pretty easy to tell the difference. Shouldn’t it? So go ahead.
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on Mar 27, 2008, 5:55PM
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Do you love to eat peas but don't live near a supermarket? Have you wished you could grow peas in your own garden but never tried because it was just too complicated?
Well wish no more because with the Planting Peas instructional video, you'll be planting peas in no time.
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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to peas, tools on 2008-03-26, 18:14:55
I find you can often divide gardeners into two camps: those who started gardening by growing herbs and those who think herbs are too fussy or difficult to grow. ...
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Perhaps many of you received an email from Mother Earth News about their new search tool for seeds and plants but in case you didn't here's some information. . ..
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Posted by Ki Reblogged by Old Roses to tools on 2008-03-26, 18:00:27
I have been taking a lot of pictures, but I am afraid I left my very nice camera on my US Airways flight in Phoenix and they are yet to find it. It was a Saturday flight and they sent the plane back to the hanger after we unloaded. My camera was up in the overhead storage. They assured me they would go look for it and call me back......
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