Posted on November 28, 2009 by janedata
It’s just two days after Thanksgiving, but I’d forgotten to say my “thanks” for my bountiful container garden! Started from seed, this Waltham butternut squash vine has been fruiting these past few weeks. The squash blossoms are very impressive. I have a few other Waltham butternut squash vines fruiting as well, growing in other containers [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2009 by janedata
Check out the lovely purplish-colored flower on one of my Black Beauty eggplants! These flowers signal that the eggplant fruits themselves will be arriving. I’ve had only leaves up until this point, so am very happy about this development! For more information about eggplant, check out this informative site:
http://ag.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/pubs/0203/eggplant.html
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Posted on November 1, 2009 by janedata
I just finished watering my front and back yards. The front looks fine, lawn is still green and my various bushes and plants are thriving. That’s the good news.
The bad news? My back yard had a combination of hits and misses.
The hits: Most of my roses (primarily hybrid tea) are standing strong (a few perished), [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2009 by janedata
One of my Waltham butternut squash plants is fruiting. We had a few days of rain here recently and I had not had the chance to visit this plant until yesterday, and was happy to see a little butternut squash (along with its corresponding blossom) peeking out.
I’ve grown various crops in containers over the years, [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2009 by janedata
I”m happy to report that one of my Black Beauty eggplant plants, started from seed, is thriving in its container. So leafy! I’m hopeful that this plant will be productive, to yield delicious eggplants to enjoy!
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Posted on September 26, 2009 by janedata
After a few failed efforts at growing carrots in containers (they have not grown very large in the past), I’m making another attempt this season. Check out the carrot seedlings at the top and the bottom of the photo (the one in the middle is an errant grass weed!). Started from seed, I’m hopeful that [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2009 by janedata
After months of growing in a round water-filled bottle, the Japanese aucuba cutting that I transplanted into its own container appears to be taking to its new home.
I’d let this cutting’s roots grow a bit longer so they were actually conforming to the shape of the bottle. But I’m confident that the long, strong roots will [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2009 by janedata
At long last, I planted my succulent garden this weekend. All of the plants that are in this succulent garden started their lives in containers, living there for a few years. They have now outgrown their containers and rather than getting even larger containers and repotting them, I opted to plant them directly into the [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2009 by janedata
It’s been a very odd year for my container garden. I finished tending to my garden chores for the day about an hour ago. Though I started planting my tomatoes, bell peppers, and jalapeno pepper early in the summer, most plants, especially the tomato plants, have been as slow as molasses to grow bigger or [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2009 by janedata
Wow! It’s been about one week since I planted Waltham butternut squash seeds in three containers, and already two of the three containers have one squash seedling each. I’m so surprised at the speediness with which these seedlings appeared.
I have seeds for additional cold season vegetables that I will be planting in containers this coming [...]
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