tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66936812725525282982009-10-31T09:39:24.893-04:00Containers, Cold-frames, and Community Gardening: notes on my urban gardening experience.Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-90679220671573057432009-07-12T10:54:00.001-04:002009-07-12T10:54:51.494-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Whut?, originally uploaded by Margo and George. This is what I get when I try to do simple domestic things, like, laundry (these are actually bathmats trying to dry hung over the laundry basket). He gives me that funny look

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-56724775460143006272009-07-05T11:07:00.001-04:002009-07-05T11:07:34.986-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } snoot prints!, originally uploaded by Margo and George. Tuesday morning I came out to check on the containers outside my window, only to find everything tipped over, dug through, and generally in disarray. Some nocturnal

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-58695938371974301162009-06-25T08:30:00.001-04:002009-06-25T08:30:26.172-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } bean bed, originally uploaded by Margo and George. at least the beans are tolerating all the rain... so far.

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-88702798805728431462009-06-23T22:52:00.002-04:002009-06-23T22:52:34.230-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the humble container garden, originally uploaded by Margo and George. So, as apparently the rest of the country endures a heat wave, my part of the country has had a month straight of rain. No, seriously: I can count the

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-74726848683728901632009-06-12T21:26:00.001-04:002009-06-12T21:26:32.467-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } a nestful, originally uploaded by Margo and George. Last weekend I got a wonderful surprise outside my window - literally a few feet outside my window, hidden in the upper branches of a large rhododendron shrub: a nestful

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-10451313426869481712009-05-28T19:56:00.001-04:002009-05-28T19:56:49.844-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } purple, originally uploaded by Margo and George. After a grey spring, it was a real refresher to see these in a garden at the Smithsonian. It'll be another week though, before my oriental poppy deigns to bloom...

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-54020029286650385882009-05-28T19:39:00.003-04:002009-05-28T19:44:10.972-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Veronica, originally uploaded by Margo and George. and then shortly thereafter, I headed out of town for a long weekend. I visited DC on my way south; stopping in to visit a few favorite museums - the Sackler /Freer Gallery

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-29888949934988818232009-05-28T19:36:00.001-04:002009-05-28T19:36:03.388-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } after much digging, originally uploaded by Margo and George. this is how the first bed looked. I planted my early stuff here on April 15: lettuces and greens, radishes, beets, and nasturtium, peas and cilantro. As you can

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-79968736018470930002009-05-16T22:48:00.003-04:002009-05-16T23:07:04.930-04:00

So, I arrived in the cooler, later part of the day to do some much-needed weeding now that we aren't living with rain all the time (although a t-storm was supposedly imminent, and I did have several things to plant)... guess what I overheard while weeding? Being gardeners you'll appreciate this one.So, we're at more than capacity at our community garden. Opening day we had 130 plots free, and

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-57804539283136182392009-05-07T14:31:00.001-04:002009-05-07T14:31:52.413-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 0502091106, originally uploaded by Margo and George. ...or, how I'm continuing to postpone putting up a decent catch-up post... I was down in SC for a festival over the weekend. We lucked out with great weather, and I

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-81110211443851761312009-04-29T22:30:00.001-04:002009-04-29T22:30:13.630-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } later, seedlings up, originally uploaded by Margo and George. ...and now the seedlings are up. peas,nasturtium carrots (ok, they're not up just yet, but imminently)arugula, spinach, lettuce, and mesclun greensbeetscilantroI

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-67735196575135611472009-04-29T22:28:00.001-04:002009-04-29T22:28:28.714-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } opening day: working on the soil, originally uploaded by Margo and George. a little photo catch-up, although I don't yet have the oomph to do a text catch up. Much has been going on. Here's how the garden looked on the 4th

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-50319614069605465182009-03-08T21:27:00.002-04:002009-03-08T21:29:55.177-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } beans growing, originally uploaded by Margo and George. So we had some of our strange winter weather this weekend: abruptly sunny and warm (for us, at any rate: 50 - 60 degrees F). I took advantage of the warm weather to

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-25994636294439034042009-03-05T18:00:00.001-05:002009-03-05T18:00:00.487-05:00

What, as if I need a reason?more animalsComic relief is my reasonbig fat justification: plus the fact that some of my online friends commented that they didn't picture me as a kickboxer (hey, I'm only just learning kickboxing, but it's fun!) -- I should say, my online friends who are gardeners and in the season traipse around flailing large, heavy metal weapons implements of weed destruction

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-45420289306049682172009-03-04T23:00:00.002-05:002009-03-06T11:47:11.444-05:00

So, I ordered some seeds from Johnny's... I like Johnny's because they have so many heirloom varieties. The short & sweet: I'm looking forward to figuring out where to put a few of each of these plants. I ordered one packet each of these nifty neeto things:Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme), 60 days to maturity ...I love cherry tomatoes, and mine died last year due

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-45776081864987067282009-03-03T22:15:00.001-05:002009-03-03T22:15:25.753-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tri-color bean mix, originally uploaded by Margo and George. So, I came home tonight to find this is how far the little green babies had pushed out of the soil. I can't wait: string beans! In my apartment! And they're the

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-30212195996898711282009-03-03T22:13:00.001-05:002009-03-03T22:13:03.696-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tri-color bean mix, originally uploaded by Margo and George. ...part 1 of several, apparently. So, as mentioned in a previous post, I was inspired by someone else's work with little tiny spare holiday lights. I came up with

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-66778028318771666682009-03-02T17:20:00.002-05:002009-03-02T17:22:45.347-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Whinnie, originally uploaded by Montgomery Area Nontraditional Equestrians (MANE). Thought everyone would appreciate this wonderful horse. I logged on to find something else on creative commons and instead found this little

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-69767122122765751382009-02-22T18:14:00.004-05:002009-02-22T18:20:25.164-05:00

...when garden and seed catalogs and planning out your plot aren't enough to distract you. You swing by the garden plot and traipse through the pock-marked and ice-ridden paths all the way to the back of the community gardens JUST TO LOOK at your own plot. Not, mind you, to accomplish any purpose; nor even to photograph it to document the change of seasons. Nope, just to look. Little wooden

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-20230260931782109112009-02-19T13:04:00.002-05:002009-02-19T19:21:05.003-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Squid Ceviche for lunch, originally uploaded by Margo and George. Who says comfort food can't be healthy?I found squid on sale at my local co-op; local and wild caught. I particularly favor the little tentacles, what can I

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-71816655099511682232009-01-30T10:41:00.003-05:002009-02-04T21:11:23.424-05:00

Thanks to someone from ravelry who's also in my local fiber guild, I have been shown this gardening post...and I am now thinking bad, bad thoughts about using LED lights and so forth to start my seeds this year. Plus it has the added bonus of keeping the little green babies safe from the curious paws (and occasional outright clueless flumping) of George, aka attitude-boy. If I succeed (i.e., if I

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-42170109884029303602009-01-18T19:45:00.002-05:002009-01-18T20:41:24.533-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } onion soup, originally uploaded by Margo and George. Foiled in my attempts to grow a winter crop of radishes, carrots and other root vegetables, I am at least still taking comfort in soup with root vegetables (note how this

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-79370877763773205762008-10-28T20:54:00.001-04:002008-10-28T20:54:11.711-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } onions & potatoes, originally uploaded by Margo and George. I meant to get a photo of these up sooner, but it took me a while to catch up on my photo-taking. These are some of the onions (red) and potatoes (red, white [

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-19495733006823621732008-10-28T20:50:00.001-04:002008-10-28T20:50:49.532-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Plum Island, originally uploaded by Margo and George. So, this is what I got up to on the Saturday this past weekend. I have always meant to head up to Plum Island, which is a national wildlife refuge (largely bird

Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693681272552528298.post-10223898081733788072008-10-28T20:40:00.001-04:002008-10-28T20:40:10.955-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } inside the cold frame, originally uploaded by Margo and George. So, it seems that my little transplanted rosemary plant objects strenuously to being moved. It appears to have root shock. I coddled it as best I could with

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