Archive for 'SWCs'
July 31, 2009
Wow, time sure flies. Long ago my mother called to say she was treating the family to an Alaskan cruise in recognition of all the hard work we put into rennovating their home. Of course we were in the middle of the process so it didn’t register at the time. Then, over the next few [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2009 under SWCs, beds, corn, harvest, planting, weather.
Comments: 5
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 13, 2009
Wow, how the weather can change here in Seattle. My father used to say if you don’t like the weather here, wait 15 minutes, it will change. It hasn’t been that bad, but following a 90 degree Saturday, we’ve had two days of 60 degree overcast weather. It even rained, though that was welcome news [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2009 under SWCs, composting, planning, weather.
Comments: 5
June 25, 2009
I guess this is a random garden tour-like post. I’ve been accumulating pics of things that struck my fancy for a while and just haven’t had opportunity to work them into posts. After chatting with Judy on Facebook tonight, I commented on my freaky corn and I promised her I would show it in my [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2009 under SWCs, blueberries, corn, fertilizer, potatoes, tomatoes, watering/irrigation.
Comments: 3
June 19, 2009
Happy Friday! I hope you’ve got some great gardening and Father’s Day celebrations planned this weekend. I need to mow the lawn, put up the trellis and maybe clean up and add some dirt to the potato bins to make sure I get as many potatoes as possible from my semi-failed bins. Of course I [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2009 under SWCs, planting, seeds, weather.
Comments: 4