my home garden

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The tomatoes are blooming, and have been for a month now, but no fruit is setting. My understanding is that tomato plants will only set fruit when they are big enough to handle a full sized tomato. So I guess they just need to grow more. Guess I’m still a month from getting a ripe tomato. I haven’t gotten around to tying the plants up yet and need to remember to do this soon. Several of my greens bolted this week, in both plots. The Feb sown escarole and romaine…
 
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garden aerial – with house painter

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Ah yes – the house painter is here. We are (he is) painting the house green. I’ve always wanted a green house! And down below, my garden is doing good. The covers are off the cold frame, but its still early in the season. All the beds are planted but the plants are still small. Seems to me that I’ve spaced them too far. I’m tempted to fill in all that extra space.
 
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aerial

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Its been a great weekend for garden work. I planted a new cutting garden to the right of my cold frame. One of my favorite roses is in the center, Mr Lincoln, a deep red hybrid tea. Also in this plot are, blue summer asters, yellow calendulas, mixed giant zinnias, pink sensation cosmos, Canterbury bells, feverfew, pink echinacea, and a couple types of lavender. I also found my giant orange dahlia tubers that I saved in the back of the basement and planted them in the flower plot them today.…
 
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my side yard garden

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Lots of chores after returning home to my gardens: – To all side yard beds, added composted, turned and buried irrigation lines – Potatoes planted in far left bed: All Blue, Cobbler, Green Mountain and Butte Russet. I’ll leave the irrigation line above the soil for now in this bed. – Marigolds planted along front of cold frame – Spread old salt hay between beds (not quite enough – I’d like to get more) – Admired all the green in the cold frame
 
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snow day

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This is the same stone wall I photographed a few days ago. Everything looks different today. Here’s my garden:
 
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February garden

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You can see results of our “no-storm” in this picture. Local kids and businesses had a (no)snow-day from this storm. With all the Mid-Atlantic and southern US snow, seems like us hardy New Englanders over-reacted.
 
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snow covered garden

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The garden is now buried under a foot of snow. Its been snowing for the past 2 days, adding to the snow from the previous storm. I can’t even remember how much fell when anymore.
 
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Kathy Martin
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy


weeks and counting until my last spring frost

What I planted recently

Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



What I'm planting soon

April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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“I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together.” – Greg Peterson

"What can happen to a seed is a miracle."

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