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Continue reading →: Giant Pumpkin Update – Female flowers
Look! Future (hopefully) Giant Pumpkin! Now we wait and hope that a male flower opens at the same time so I can get this little pumpkin fertilized. Then it can become a not-so-little pumpkin. As of today, there is one tiny future pumpkin on each plant. I’ll keep you posted…
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Continue reading →: Tomatillo Flower
I have taken a few days off to catch up on life, catch up with family and honestly, to just breathe. But look below! My first Tomatillo flower. Which is doing shockingly better in my neglected backyard than the one in the greenhouse. Also, there are now about 8 flowers,…
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Continue reading →: Shallot Harvest 2014
I harvested all the shallots last night, with the exception of the 3 plants I left to flower. I’m so happy with my first real garden harvest of the year. It was great to get home, pull an armload of shallots (and rhubarb) from my car, and have the neighbour…
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Continue reading →: Birdhouse Gourd- Growth Update
It has been a while since I mentioned anything about the Birdhouse Gourds, so I figured now would be as good of time as any. They have some female flowers now. In fact, I hand pollinated one yesterday. But look at how prolific these things are. Especially for something I…
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Continue reading →: The Liebster Award
HAPPY CANADA DAY Vedis from Reykjavik Chic awarded me the Liebster Award. Way back in May… I have been so busy in the garden that I never got around to finishing this post, but Vedis, Thank you so much! The Liebster Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than…
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