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I have a bumper crop of red currants on my 3 plants. I made 20 pints of currant jelly last week-end.
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Well there always is light at the end of the tunnel. The coldest winter and coldest wettest spring in recent memory was followed by the driest sunniest summer in decades. I ended up with so many healthy tomato seedlings that I sold them, on consignment, to the local farm and garden store. The store sold…
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Temperature over the last month has been below the seasonal average on 28 out of 31 days. We have had rain (or snow) every day for the last 2 months. We had an inch of snow yesterday morning – the first April snow accumulation I have seen in 22 years here. Today, finally, sunshine and…
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Looks like a good day to work in the green house. Pots seeded with 50 varieties of heirloom tomatos are presently beginning to sprount in my house. I have transferred the first few into the green house. Small pots seeded with 50 seeds each of broccoli, white cabbage, red cabbage and cauliflower several weeks ago…
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The 2009 planting season is here! Lettuce, water cress, arugala and onion seeds were sprouted in the house and transferred to the green house. We are preparing to start tomato seeds.
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The last month has been warm and rainless. The first tomatoes are ripening. Slava was first, starting July 12. New Hampshire Surecrop was second. However, the Surecrop seeds were saved from last year, and I just learned that the variety is a hybrid. Oviously, theyhave not bred true since the original was a late variety…
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Weather is warming at last, and a few days with minimal rainfall has the garden soil dry enough to till. Now have 100 tomatoes in gallon cans under cloches in the garden. 16 tomato plants, 5 cucumber plants and one melon plant are planted, through black plastic, under a cloche. Three days ago (Sat.) finally…
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April has been one of the coldest on record. The last week has had the coldest temperatures ever recorded for the date, with many inches of snow each of the last 3 days. The “average date of last frost” was yesterday, but we are having freezing temperatures every night. Needless to say the garden is…
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King of the North, Senorita, Tennessee Cheese, Cayenne, Yellow Banana