Kerry’s Garden

We have been picking tomatoes off this grouping for several weeks now. These were planted in a bag of soil back in early May and have been doing great. They are to the size now where they do need to be watered daily and I have fertilized a couple of times with some MG. I [...]

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Both of the Nanho blue buddleia (butterfly bush) are in full bloom and the butterflies are loving it. The flower bed is looking full this year. The spring rains have really done a lot of good. Like pretty much everything around here they really suffered last summer with the drought. Though we picked up almost [...]

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My SIL was in a nearby town during one of her many business trips. We had talked previously about her picking up a cherry tomato plant on one of her visits so I had saved one of the basket tomato cups back ‘just in case’. It was a little larger than I had anticipated it [...]

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I had naively thought that the deer issue last summer had to do with the drought. Not so. Apparently there is at least one deer that has found my garden and enjoys the fruits of my labor on a regular basis. About 4 or 5 of the tomato plants I planted last week have been [...]

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For the most part the vegetables are in. I had planned on getting more done this weekend but I do tend to plan more than I can accomplish. I had to work with the tiller a bit to get it to start. It had some old gas in it from last year. Last spring some [...]

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Last year I grew some cherry tomatoes in containers in this half barrel. I didn’t plant them directly in the soil already in the barrel for two reasons. There was still a stump of a dead apricot tree there and the soil would need some major overhauling if it was to grow tomatoes worth anything. [...]

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I ordered a new WS-2310TWC weather station from Amazon a couple of days ago. It has a temp/humidity/pressure gauge, a rain gauge and a wind gauge. It will connect to the indoor base unit either via cable or wireless. It comes with software to upload the weather data to your computer and or the internet. [...]

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