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Suburban Container Garden
The double decker green bean patch at the end is flanked by the bush cucumbers and the potato ranch is beginning to take shape again. We got the containers hooked up to the drip sprinkler system....
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Failed Overheated Cucumbers
Imagine the excitement when returning from a trip. Each mile closer to home made us more eager to see Our Suburban Garden. Finally we surveyed the plants. Seems it was a bit hotter than expected and...
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Volunteer Tomato Covers Window
Back in May we put in the bigger better tomato cage. Turns out it was not big enough after all. The 7 foot tall tomato plant here is the same one shown on the top of the blog growing amongst the...
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Watermelon Spotted
Today Lil Bro and Dad spotted the first watermelon. It is so tiny. We look forward to watching it grow "as big as a Magna Guard star fighter." Maybe it will grow as big as R2D2. Who knows?The vines...
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Tons of Tomatoes
Each of the 5 tomato plants in Our Suburban Garden is full sized and ready to bear fruit. Here is a photo from the Early Girl plant. I wonder what is going to happen in August. So far 98 percent of our...
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Potato Ranch Round 2
We have been pretty busy with the potato ranch for the past couple of months. We try to plant 1 potato every 3 days. The idea is to have the harvest to stretch out over a longer period of time. If we...
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Tomato Thursday
Here is our second Mortgage lifter tomato which has climbed above the 6 foot fence. There's a sidewalk along the fence, so our suburban walkers will have easy pickins without stepping a foot on our...
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Another Tomato Cage Design
We started with those little wire cages from the store. But then the plants grew taller so we added the wide leaning wooden cage. Just recently we added the supports up high so the plant has something...
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Fantasy Garden
We had to travel to the Garden Island this week and today came upon a fantasy garden. A land of fertile soil, rain, sunshine and mild temperatures. More than 100 years ago, manual labor developed...
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Onions Out, Potatoes Blooming, Ahhhh
Back at Our Suburban Garden it is onion picking day. The onions completely wilted so we thought we would clear the area. Wah Bam, now we have onions a plenty. For now anyway. In the background are our...
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Potato Ranch Update - 29 Plants
Here's the latest with the potato ranch. We have 3 rows. In front are the youngest plants. In the back are the oldest, and hopefully soonest to harvest. In the middle are the halfway grown plants....
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Tomato Tuesday
Today was a big tomato day. 36 picked and 300 year to date all together. Wow!! Mortgage lifters in front of the blogging machine. Japanese black trifle on top of the keyboard. Volunteer tomatoes on the...
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Tomatoes Going Bananas
Just when we think we have seen it all, the day of 9/9/9 hits and our tomato harvest is exactly 100 in a single day!!!!! Wow. It took three bags to haul them in the house. We counted the batch here one...
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Cucumbers Today
Howdy. Well we are just thrilled about gardening. The cucumber plant keeps putting out cukes even though it had a rough spell with the heat wave. Picked these today. That makes about 52 this year from...
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We're Back - New Farm - New Potatoes
Well we have been away from the blog for a long time. Traded in our suburban existence for country living. We're starting over with new gardens, and because of the clay soil, we are using raised beds...
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Raised Bed Broccoli - 4" of Rain
Here is the raised bed with 8 broccoli plants and 1 cabbage plant in the center. Dad has the challenge of growing the largest cabbage for an elementary school contest. No pressure, right? The potatoes...
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Potato Growth - Tomato Beds
Well the one potato bed is growing fast and furious, but the other potato bed barely has 4 plants out of 20 that came up. Not sure why, and now I forget which bed was gold and which bed was russets. I...
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Potatoes Ranch
Some of the potatoes in containers are starting to bloom. The raised bed potatoes have grown to the second level now. We added a 2 x 8 row, and filled with more soil mix. The 2 other raised beds have...
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Potato Bin Progress
Well the potato bin is really going bananas. Got the 3rd level in today. I keep adding soil mix and cover all but the tops of the plants. It would be so great if I could get 100 potatoes out of this...
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Garden Update - Raspberries / Broccoli
Here is our little raspberry bed. So far 2 of the 4 raspberry plants have sprouted leaves. The broccoli plants are really growing fast now. Hopefully we will get some broccoli to eat soon.
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Lettuce, Kale and Onion Bed
The lettuce is starting to grow. Since it is in a raised bed, I like to keep giving plenty of water and so far so good. Keeps right on growing. Looking forward to some salad soon.
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Combo Bin - Potato, Sunflower, Cantaloupe
Only half of this potato bin seemed to sprout, so I got crazy and and planted sunflowers AND cantaloupe in the 2 foot by 2 foot section. This is a foliage explosion waiting to happen. Stay tuned and...
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Broccoli Peeking
Was very happy to see the broccoli forming. Yay! We're having intense heat. Hope these guys grow big fast so we can eat em.
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Tomato Bed and Potato Bugs
The mortgage lifter tomato plants are very happy in the raised bed and growing nicely. But what are these insects on the potato leaves? Yuck. Ewwww.
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