ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 23, 2014 16:02:19 GMT -5
First picking of the peas today.
I've also harvested some chickpeas that had dried over the last couple of weeks.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 15, 2014 23:49:02 GMT -5
Pic time Oats Parsnips in bloom pretty lettuce loaded chickpea, started indoors. lentils one of many darn cats pond bee magnet two different chickpea verities, direct sown. the pics are three weeks old, now in bloom.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 7, 2014 1:19:07 GMT -5
Or when they fertilize and bury seeds before you can get back to cover them.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 5, 2014 17:12:22 GMT -5
A day in the life.
Weed, weed, weed. Water. Weed, weed, weed. "STOP rolling on that you DARN cats!".
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 1, 2014 0:08:28 GMT -5
It is an above ground pond framed and covered with old barn wood. The green wire cover is to keep the kids safe and the smaller wire is the fall cover to keep leaves and walnuts out.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on May 31, 2014 12:54:54 GMT -5
Mostly everything is up now, no thanks to the cats.
The radishes are done, whats left is for seed including some that I planted yesterday. Found a cheep seed pack that-had a blend of ten different varieties, a few were repeats of what I already had but most where new, planted them in the next row over (the parsnips came up really sparse, the seed must be past its prime, good thing I set aside some for seed production this year)
Last years cabbage is in bloom, the flowers look complete to me, now to see what the bees think.
The raspberries are blooming too, there is more bees in them than I think I've ever seen in the past, should have a good harvest this year.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
Posts: 214
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Post by ethin on May 21, 2014 0:50:17 GMT -5
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
Posts: 214
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Post by ethin on May 20, 2014 23:43:02 GMT -5
Yesterday: Planted out tomato starts, also direct sowed some, inter-planted with basil starts and seed. Sweet peppers starts. 40' row of beans (bush, pole, snap, dry).
Today: 7 40' rows of sweet corn, 3 of early 4 of late, inter-planted some Indian with the early. 6 hills of Watermelon, 4 of new varieties, 1 of old, plus a hill of last years homegrown seed). 5 hills of 'cumbers, 1 for slicing 4 for pickles, planted snapdragon starts in the row between the hills for the squash bees and 'bumbles. 5 hills of winter squash, pepo, moschata, maxima, cosmos in between the hills for bees, wasps, and hummingbirds.
I had another encounter with a swarm of bees today, this one past over head, they where high enough that I couldn't see them but I could definitely hear them.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on May 19, 2014 15:00:10 GMT -5
Finished the finale till job on the rest of my plot, taking a break before going back out to plant the warm season crops.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on May 19, 2014 0:05:20 GMT -5
Whats left of 2013's winter squash.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
Posts: 214
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Post by ethin on May 18, 2014 14:14:01 GMT -5
Had a swarm of bees fly past me while in the garden today, about 80-100 feet off 15-20 feet up. Guess that means there is a healthy colony somewhere in the neighborhood.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Apr 24, 2014 23:43:44 GMT -5
Peas are up. Also lettuce, radishes, beets, cabbage, broccoli, oats, onions from bulbs and lentils. The lentils beat the peas out of the ground by half a week.
On Monday while enjoying a hotdog cookout with the family I found a mature seed in a seedless watermelon! Guess I'll try to start it indoors, see if it amounts to anything. Also harvested the first asparagus of the year.
Been hardening off the chickpeas and other indoor starts, mostly flowers.
The almond and hazel trees (one of each) that I was able to start last year made it though their first winter and are leafing out. None of the nuts that I planted this winter have sprouted yet.
My blueberries look like their going to have lots of blossoms this year.
Planted a test row of a different variety of peas today (different from the variety that my famly has grown for the last decade). Thinking about trying to starting my own land-races.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Apr 11, 2014 21:24:08 GMT -5
If times where hard and gardening was a matter of life and death, at lease I might not starve waiting for the veggies.
My nickname for mallow contains cheese as well.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
Posts: 214
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Post by ethin on Apr 11, 2014 16:41:34 GMT -5
Finished planting "early" stuff, got it in a month earlier than last year but a month later than I could have if the garden had been prepped in the fall.
peas chickpeas* limas* lentils* cabbage broccoli oats* onions (bulbs and seeds) carrots parsnips lettuce chard radish beets
*just 'cause, have no clue how it's going to go.
I think that's everything I planted...
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