Archive for July, 2009
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 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 22, 2009
My oh my, it has been a while. Seems my vacation has been far more type A than type B. Kind of a shame because sitting around and gardening is just about my speed. Instead I’ve been pretty much go-go non-stop ever since we got back from camping. Blogging about the few scant hours I spent [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2009 under potatoes, seeds, tomatoes.
Comments: 7