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Each year, I look forward to the start of fall, which is signaled by the county fair.  I love our fair, it is a favorite time of the year – better than Christmas!  I love to enter things in the fair and this year, I was excited to enter some things from my new house – things that were all mine. I have entered the flower show in the past, but most of the entries have been flowers grown by my mom and myself.  This year, I only had a few flowers, but they were flowers that belonged to me alone.  I entered a hostaRead More →

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Yesterday, I noticed that my squash had some white, powdery looking spots on it’s leaves. The plant itself looked okay other than the spots. I noticed the other day that while some of the fruit were okay, a couple of the fruits just coming on appeared to have started to rot where the flower typically falls off.  So, obviously, I had to do something, the first thing I did was find out what I had.  My twitter friends told me I likely had Powdery Mildew.  The first thing I did was to cut off the healthy fruit.  Though I would normally leave it to growRead More →

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I have many posts to write about the things I’ve been working on around the house, but something happened tonight that I just have to write about.  I was going to write a tweet to Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, and realized that what I wanted to say wouldn’t fit in a tweet. A little background story first, in my new house, there is a family that lives next door who has several children (four or five? I’m not sure).  Based on what I know, let’s just say, they don’t have a very stable home life.  They spend a fair amount of time in theirRead More →

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I finally got my vegetables all planted.  The tomatoes and squash have been out for a week or so, and I just planted the eggplants today.  The tomatoes grew very tall and fairly spindly from being inside so long while I was waiting for the closing on the house, but they seem to be recovering.  The summer squash lost all of it’s leaves but is growing new ones so I still have hope for it.  The eggplants had some leaf burn from a very hot day in front of the glass window with too direct sunlight (I think this is what caused it) but seemRead More →

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My secret prayer partner gifted me with a beautiful Asiatic Lily, ‘Orange Matrix’.  I kept it inside until I closed on the house and it lost it’s beautiful petals, but I have hopes it will be okay and come back next year – and for many more years to come.  I wasn’t sure where to plant it, but decided to put it right outside the garage door so I could see it whenever I came home. There was already an area that possibly had annual flowers before, but it was grown over with weeds, so I went to work with my hoe to chop themRead More →

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I have closed on the house officially and have moved in and done some work.  Unfortunately I do not have internet access and now that I do have it I forgot my camera so I can’t share new pictures.  I was able to find out what some of the plants from my last post were and am going to write about those. All of the hostas are staying and I’m slowly working on removing the weeds growing in among them. Mom identified this and the other bush/tree like things as mulberry bushes, which were probably brought in by birds who eat the berries and thenRead More →

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You may have noticed the lack of posts recently, that is because I’ve been busy looking at houses to buy.  I found one that suits my needs and am preparing to move.  This means a new house, with new plants, and best of all, a garden all my own (that I don’t have to share with mom). Some of the plants that came with the house I’m excited about, others I do not know what they are, and yet others I am far less than enthused about.  So here is a plant overview of the new house, perhaps you can help identify some of theRead More →

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Between the seedlings inside, the plants popping up outside, and babies popping up all over, I think it is safe to say spring has sprung.  And finally the weather agrees, with two lovely 60 degree days! The plants in the basement are growing and growing.  I can’t wait to put them outside soon, but it needs to warm up a bit more. Daffodils have popped up and should be blooming soon in the backyard. Even the sedum mom dug up to save from our building project last year has begun to show green leaves.  I think the fact that it has been in the greenRead More →

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I’m not feeling very good today, I thought yesterday that my kidney stone had passed, but now I think it just decided not to move yesterday.  But… …look what happened to sprout up today – Broccoli!  Just one, I’m hoping the other is close behind! I also repotted tomatoes after writing yesterday’s blog post.  They have their first true leaves coming in and have roots on the edge of their pellets too.  I did them the same way I did the cabbage and kale. I planted two different varieties of tomato, one Sweet 100 and one Amana Orange.  I’m not a huge tomato fan, howeverRead More →