{July 22, 2007}   our garden: successes, challenges and adoption

finally a look at the present state of good ol’ garden plot N10:
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as you may be able to tell, we are having a bit of a challenge with a few of the boxes on the left, but we have discovered the problem and are just going to start over in them with some fall plantings. let’s just look at one of the boxes that is doing well, shall we?

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there is plenty of yummy stuff growing:
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i even did a little knitting to help transport the bounty from garden to kitchen:
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do you see the crazy mess that is the garden plot just behind where the bag is hanging in the above picture? our garden-neighbor planted a few things in april and never came back. it has weeds as tall as 5 ft. and is now officially ours. she has finally given it up and we were able to take it over. here is how it looked…
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…until we spent three hours this morning cutting it back, pulling stuff up, saving the carrot patch and mowing.
stay tuned for further exciting tales of N10 and N9



kelly says:

i heart you.



mom/cindy says:

Looks like tons of work! You can bring some of the bounty with you to NJ this weekend.



measured with spoons says:

[…] rescued a few plants from the compost pile and put them in the adopted garden plot, which, next summer will hopefully be the flower […]



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