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So my Kentucky Wonders are starting to come in. I picked a handful tonight, and there’s several dozen that we’ll pick this week to go with dinner. I can already tell that I’ve planted too many pole bean. I think I’m going to have enough for a family of four to eat at least twice …
First shallotsOriginally uploaded by kevindonahue. I harvested the shallots from the October 2006 planting today. All I can say is…WOW! I ended up with roughly 175+ shallots. They all look really great. I’m kinda surprised because – to be perfectly honest – I had no idea what I was doing when I planted these. But… …
First Garlic HarvestOriginally uploaded by kevindonahue. I got 20-something really nice heads of garlic from my first garlic planting in October 2006. (before) I posted a close up shot of one of the medium heads so you could get a feel for their size. Most are about the diameter of a coke can or bigger. …
After 10″ of rain in the past week, I was a little nervous about what I might find in the garden this weekend, but… I was pleasantly surprised. 🙂 I’ve posted some photo updates on Flickr, but will spare my dial-up friends the bandwidth here. We are starting to get zucchini flowers on my two …
Well, it’s March 11th and I’ve got my first sunburn – that didn’t take long. 😉 I started in the yard this morning around 10a and finished up around dinner. I got the lawn mowed, edged, etc. Then, I leveled a 9′ x 3′ strip in the backyard for new garden beds. (I never expected …
My efforts to reinvigorate my soil through direct composting seems to be working, although I’m pretty lean in most of the planter boxes. To supplement my soil, I’m going to be adding Miracle-Gro Organic – an oxymoron if ever there was one – as well as Black Kow composted manure. I’m a little worried that …
I spent the morning working on my garden beds and getting them ready for spring planting. I’m direct composting my beds so as to continue my mostly organic gardening. (I have to say that I’m getting interested in going 100% organic, whereas I’m about 80% right now.) I’ll let the soil aerate and then add …
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