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• Day 56

  They weren't kidding!

  Posted about 4 days ago | Sunny 19°C / 67°F | 18 comments | 9 thumbs up!

  

  The seed packet said that this squash is the “shape, size and color” of a lemon. I guess they weren’t kidding! I have 3-4 squash this size that I’m going to harvest tonight and cook up with dinner!

  This entry is about Katxena's Lemon Squash in the Tiny Farm garden.
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  Parenthood vs Gardening

  Posted 1 days ago | Sunny 36°C / 97°F | 9 comments | 8 thumbs up!

  

  The joy of carrying my babbling baby boy to the garden each day is nothing short of magical. Every day, I pick him up from daycare on the way home from work, and when we get home, the puppies (now dogs, but they’ll always be puppies in our hearts) leap about eagerly to get a whiff of us ...

  This entry is about The Libra's Victory & SpiceWall garden.

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  Moving Day!

  Posted about 7 days ago | Sunny 24°C / 75°F | 9 comments | 2 thumbs up!

  

  Today was the day that we moved house – my windowsill boxes alone ended up being an entire car load in themselves! We didn’t have any massive casualties – a little soil spillage here and there while we were struggling with the stairs in both places (yes, we had to make the move ...

  This entry is about Nic's adventures in gardening.

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  Custard Candy=Eye Candy!!!

  Posted about 3 days ago | Overcast 13°C / 55°F | 6 comments | 4 thumbs up!

  

  • Check out the blooms on my daylily “Custard Candy” this week!!! What a show with the 8” blossoms in mouthwatering custard cream topped with a raspberry eyezone. Such a favorite I wish I could force them to bloom year round. I a blooming clump they stop traffic on my stree...

  This entry is about Graffiti's adventures in gardening.

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  FURIOUS! Something Digs - Day 3 of 4!!!

  Posted about 6 days ago | Sunny 19°C / 67°F | 8 comments

  

  I am furious. For 3 out of 4 days something is digging again in Butter, my garden with the space basil. The space basil is safe, but beans, peas, carrots, leeks and radishes have been destroyed. I do not know what to do. My main thought is trap the beastie and then kill it. But I doubt I w...

  This entry is about Flight's GX-1134 garden.

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  Red hot chili cat - or 'feline mulch'

  Posted about 6 days ago | Cloudy 22°C / 72°F | 5 comments | 2 thumbs up!

  

  I told you before, my cat is a bit of a gardener… Every time I plant or sow something – and everytime I take something out – he’s there, inspecting my work and sniffing away at the newly planted treasures. He keeps the compost bin warm and benefits in turn from the warmth ...

  This entry is about Annet's adventures in gardening.
• Day 53

  A rodent

  Posted 1 days ago | Sunny 31°C / 88°F | 7 comments

  I just saw a small rodent-type thing climbing my sungold cherry. It was about a foot off the ground, scrambling around a branch that had a lot of tomatoes on it. I ran outside to scare it away, and I didn’t get a good look at it. It’s brown and about the size of my fist. One of my...

  This entry is about Katxena's Sungold Cherry Tomato in the Tiny Farm garden.
• Day 4

  Unworthy?

  Posted about 6 days ago | Sunny 29°C / 84°F | 5 comments | 1 thumbs up!

  After reading the comment that helped to educate me on the difference between a daylily and iris, I decided to do a little more research – only this time on the Orange Daylily. What I found was that many people consider these to be unworthy of their gardens. Why? apparently because of the...

  This entry is about Judith505's Daylily - Orange in the Flower and Non-Edibles garden.

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  Webcompanion asked: Mystery mutant bee

  Posted about 6 days ago | 4 responses | 1 thumbs up!

  

  We were looking at our petunia’s here in southeast Michigan yesterday evening before dark and came across this crazy looking bee-like insect I had never seen before. Does anyone know what these are called? He was loving the flowers and visited just about all my blooms it seemed!

  This question is about Webcompanion's Flower garden.
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  Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2008 pictures...

  Posted about 5 days ago | Cloudy 16°C / 61°F | 5 comments

  

  I will try and write a full account of the fantastic day we had up at the show and all the gardening trends and ideas that we saw but, for now, you can find some of my photos of the beautiful gardens this year here and on my flickr site…

  This entry is about Trisha's adventures in gardening.

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