Archive for 'Basil'
Posted: October 5th, 2003 by
Frank
A pretty day, but the Marlow Harvest festival and a desperately needed shopping trip kept us out of the garden until very late. The shopping trip did provide us with a decent bulb planter. Damn this fancy Japan/Taiwan engineered bent metal. It’s a cup on a stick, 1/8 inch Penna. steel, welded in Bangor, Maine.
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Posted under Basil, Harvesting, Honey Mushrooms, Peppers, Tomatoes.
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Posted: October 2nd, 2003 by
Frank
The first freeze of the season is promised for tonight, and Lisa is away, so much running around. I put blankets on the tomatoes, peppers and basil. Unfortunately the tomatoes looked like they’d already taken frost damage. I potted up the two coleus that had made it through the spring’s cold weather. They are gorgeous, and Lisa wants to try to make cuttings for next year. The Hawaiian stick, the amaryllis and the peace lily came in. I don’t think the peace lily will make it through the winter, but the other two seem to have adapted to out somewhat irregular pattern of care. Finally I harvested the one remaining basil plant out in the main window boxes, and grabbed a meals worth of honey mushrooms. (There are many more, but it was getting dark, and we hadn’t actually tried them yet.) The basil replaced the black trumpets in the dryer.
Posted under Basil, Harvesting, Honey Mushrooms, Peppers, Tomatoes.
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Posted: July 7th, 2003 by
Lisa
I’m pretty pleased with how well the vegetables that I planted on the upper balcony are doing. I’ve never grown peas before, and only planted one window box with them, and they did very well and we are eating peas now, which is neat. My plan to have them drape down didn’t go so well,
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Posted under Basil, Lettuce, Onions, Peas, Peppers, Reviews, Self, Tomatoes, Window Boxes, deck.
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Posted: June 26th, 2003 by
Lisa
Frank and I spent the week in Philadelphia this week, leaving the garden to fend for itself. While we were gone, summer arrived with a heat-wave, hitting the mid-90s, which is pretty rare for New Hampshire. Of course, because that’s the way things work in our world, Frank had been fiddling with the irrigation before
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Posted under Basil, Fish, Iris, Irrigation, Kids, Sedum, Tomatoes, peony.
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Posted: May 1st, 2003 by
Lisa
I had every intention of starting some herbs from seed in boxes for the upper balcony deck this year. I even bought the seed. I bought some sand to mix with the potting soil. I researched what temps they want to germinate. I kept a shelf clear in the basement for them. Somehow I never
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Posted under Basil, Chives, Gardening, Grow lights, Herbs, Planting, Soil, Window Boxes.
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