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Orchids not veggies
Category: Garden @ ECO | Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:58 pm Ok so as I wait "patiently" for spring. i spent some quality time with my orchids over the winter. I have a short story to share.. a couple years ago (3) i saved a dying orchid from a dark office. the poor thing was yellowing, wilted and sad. i took it home, re potted it. and put it in a window. it lived... but thats about all it did. it would kick out new leaves and air roots. but nothing else. i am not even sure what kind it is. i moved it to my office at work, which has a south facing but rather drafty window. it has been doing well. especially since i never forget to water it since it sits directly in front of me a mere three feet away. well over valentine's day my sweety gave my a Hawaiian Orchid "Phaphiopedium" love song Variety. It is amazing. i put it with it the other yet to be named variety and low and behold the orphan orchid shot out a flower stem shortly there after. Today it opened i have a beautiful yellow/white orchid flower. my first orchid i have ever gotten to flower i am so excited...... I'll post photos for you to see very soon. This blog entry has been viewed 461 times
posting 06 garden pictures.
Category: Garden @ ECO | Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:23 pm i worked for two seasons gardening with uncleJabba who has a blog here. last year we worked our own gardens. i think i have figured out how to post pictures here. this is last years work. Watermelons!! 
corn and melon patch 
yellow wax beans!! 
lettuces 
heirloom tomaotes!! 
california wonders!! 
more letuces with beets and carrots! 
peppers 
peppers and corn 
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January work
Category: Garden @ ECO | Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:15 pm This Garden was a filed of weeds and grass at the beginning of last year. i tilled it in the late winter with a reverse tine tiller and added 40 pounds of all purpose organic fertilizer, and 80 pounds of organic high calcium lime. I grew 3 varieties of lettuces, 2 of carrots, chiogga beets and forono beets. i added in early summer romano bean and yellow wax beans. also 7 types of heirloom tomatoes, 4 types of swete peppers, including my favorite.. the "corno Di Toro" awesome huge plants and peppers!! i grew a block of "peaches and Cream" sweet corn and watermelons. My only Failure was my pumpkins, which i started two weeks too late and the vine borers go to and ate!! This year i added 2 inches of leaf mulch and tilled it in. i currently have a late cover crop of Crimson clover and a patch of hairy vetch mixed with rye for the later crops. i have began composting my load of leaf mulch with old produce for some good green matter and a late season top dressing for the soil. will be starting seed in a gren house shortly and getting this years soil sample started. Here's to a great season!! photos to follow once i figure it out.[/img] This blog entry has been viewed 529 times
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