Archive for 'watering/irrigation'
November 13, 2009
Happy Friday the 13th! Just had to post tonight to say that my youngest grabbed a broccoli stalk from a snack tray and started nibbling on it. Now he loves it all of a sudden. This is huge because he’s my junk food kid. My eldest tried it and gagged. I always expected him to [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2009 under watering/irrigation, weather.
Comments: 4
July 29, 2009
YIKES! We hit a new all-time record here in the Seattle area. Our previous record temperature was 100 hit as recently as 1994. I personally recall playing tennis all day long in high school only to find out it hit 99, but that was when I was insane. I’m better now, hehe.
Well, today we shattered [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under SWCs, harvest, planning, tomatoes, watering/irrigation, weather.
Comments: 7
July 28, 2009
Wow, where has July gone? Sorry I haven’t posted, but it’s been just plain too hot to garden much. The later part of my vacation was spent on the garage, helping a friend move and playing at the pool with the kids. Alas, nowhere in there did I mention gardening. Well, that’s not quite true, [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under composting, polination, seed starting, tomatoes, watering/irrigation, weather.
Comments: 10
July 23, 2009
Today I got a chance to get out into the garden for the first time in a while. Mostly I needed to gut it of all the spent and bolted plants. The secondary benefit was to get rid of the piles (and I mean piles) of compostables that have just been sitting around (mostly in [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2009 under composting, potatoes, watering/irrigation.
Comments: 3
July 16, 2009
Wow, it’s been a while, and I hadn’t even noticed. Sorry. At least I’ve been taking pictures along the way, even if I had forgotten to post them. See, I’m going on vacation next week (staying home), so it’s been slammed at work. Such is life when you want to go on vacation.
Call this the [...]
Posted: July 17th, 2009 under garlic, harvest, seed starting, watering/irrigation.
Comments: 10