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Pictures worth 1000 words I raised the stakes today ... & upside down this makes as much sense ... as water off a ducks back! If you think this post doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of ...

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  Two shots of the garden I like from this season - Summer 2011 - it was a good year. It's been difficult getting out to actually close the garden down because of all the rainy days w...

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I managed to find my bread maker book along with the little instruction manual for using the two small pans that goes with it and sync it up with a recipe I found online here ... with a few cha...

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Two pots on the stove. In the small pot are all the yellow and green tomatoes from the last haul, chopped & simmering on the back burner. It provides a nice colour change to the red and tastes...

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Canning in Memory of Wayne on the 2nd Anniversary of his Death Three bags full & three days in the slow cooker! Meditations & Good Vibrations and ... seven 500ml jars of gardening goodness...

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Something told me there wouldn't be too much to do in the garden today ... was I wrong ... I arrived to find the new squash doorway I'd built collapsed (no big surprise really - what was I ...

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I think I'm about a week or two behind last year ... I was a little late getting the tomatoes in after a cold and rainy Spring ... my tomatoes were really small as well. This is the first ye...

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Moments after coming back from the garden, I noticed a Tweet about soldier beetles being good garden insects to have - phew - because I saw some and thought, 'Oh No - now I've got these?' ... I...

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A little baby robin got it's wings caught in my vines - it looked to me like it had gone into them to have a little snooze and I might have woken it up when I got to the garden early this morning...

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I just got back from Ottawa & always like to go to the National Gallery ... outside Louise Bourgeois' spider guards the front doors! I was out-of-town for 9 days. Fortunately the garden and roo...

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Here's an overview of where the garden is for now with photos of all the plants I still have to find a fit for!

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I've noticed all the larger muscles on my body are tightening up ... lots of squats being done and I swear tweeting and blogging has been making my biceps firmer (along with all the digging, weed...

http://gardenbre4.blogspot.com/2011/06/getting-little-behind.html

I pulled up the last of the creeping charlie in the new (in 2010) tomato patch and put down student figure drawings that had been thrown in the recycle bin - I figure (pun intended) that ...

http://gardenbre4.blogspot.com/2011/05/first-25-tomatoes-in.html

The original tomato patch (last year used for vegetables) before shot. ... under the red mulch are piles of student drawings. Hopefully no weeds will make it though. I put in four San Ma...

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I thought I'd only get a fraction of what I got done today ... the board is the halfway separation and you can almost see the compost corner I've set up (I still have to haul lots of gnu...

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... and the house is full of bugs from my going in and & out and leaving the door opened ... well not FULL ... I finally had time to get most of my seedlings repotted and into some good mus...

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woah - the cooler weather has really slowed things down ... my first tomatoes went in on the 23rd of May last year (and they were hardened off and about 6" tall already) and I got a patch dug ....

http://gardenbre4.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-time-last-year.html

... the big accomplishment of today - the big tomato patch is weeded - finally! ... how tidy will this patch stay over the course of the Summer I wonder? ... pretty central circle of thym...

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... this was the big accomplishment of the day - I got the tomatillo patch and the far right side edges weeded today - all in about 2 hours! I'm really glad I went because I was thinking of n...

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... what else can I say other than it also needs to warm up again as well ...

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... the creeping charlie weeding is done on the center path (it took a day and a bit) I wanted to make sure it NEVER comes back and so I armed myself with weed cloth ... and a folio full...

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I can hardly type after todays path clearing ... BUT heh heh I did manage to free the hose from the creeping charlie ... photos to follow once I find my battery charger! I tweeted last year and ...

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... the traffic into the allotment through High Park was the busiest I've ever seen it ... I actually wrote in my journal while we bumper-to-bumpered along (lots of people lost their cool and d...

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I'm planning to go back and weed again tomorrow as long as I can still move. I began in the far top right corner and really made sure I got all the stinging nettle out. I mended the fence a l...

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