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Ready for Summer!

May 29, 2016 By lpilewski

Thanks for keeping up and letting me catch up! It’s been a crazy spring, that’s for sure! Greg is finally done with surgery for his hiatal hernia, out of the hospital, and recovering. I’m able to get my spring garden exploits up to date. (Thanks for all the well wishes!)

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Garden chicken is here looking over the parsnips, carrots and beets -…

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Filed Under: Week by Week Tagged With: beets, carrots, garden chicken, parsnips, tat soi, zucchini blossom

Beets A Bust

July 4, 2015 By lpilewski

Update for week 14 – sadly beets were a bust. These were planted from seed and it was apparent that they went in too late. The heat didn’t allow for them to grow. In the ‘bust’ category also – garlic chives, swiss chard, brussel sprouts. Since I’m listing the issues here, I can also let you know that the chamomile didn’t sprout at all and the tat soi isn’t growing. Lesson learned, though, on growing these items in colder weather and I’ll be ready for fall planting! Since its so hot, nothing further will be planted until August (after consulting my experts – thanks Kirsten and Lynne!) We’re pulling carrots tomorrow and the preview today shows tiny carrots will be in the offing…the heirloom radishes were bigger!

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Now the good news! …

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Filed Under: Week by Week Tagged With: beets, cayenne, Holy Mole Pepper, kaleidescope carrot, zinnia

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In the Beginning

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Welcome! Follow along with me as I try gardening for the first time! My grandfather and mother are both amazing gardeners who could grow anything. Grapefruit, oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, flowers, figs, mangoes, papayas – nothing seemed to wither on the vine.

Then there is me.  I’ve never had success with plants, but that is going to change this summer!  The picture above is what I see in my mind. I’m hoping that my kitchen counter will look like this. (OK, not the mushrooms, but you get the idea).

I intend to detail the journey here on a weekly basis. We’ll have to wait to see how my garden grows. Hope you stick around!

In the Garden

  • Pineapple Tomato x2
  • Hillbilly Tomato
  • Mortgage Lifter Tomato
  • Sweet Million Cherry Tomato
  • Bush Cucumber
  • Fooled You (no-heat jalapeno)
  • Sweet Sunset Banana Pepper
  • Orange Bell Pepper
  • Marconi Red Peppers
  • Mad Hatter Pepper
  • Garlic Chives
  • Wandering Onions
  • Hot and Spicy Oregano
  • Spice Island Rosemary
  • Silver Thyme
  • Julep Spearmint
  • Sweet Basil
  • Sage
  • Lavender
  • Carrots
  • Orange and Yellow Marigolds
  • Firepot Dahlias
  • Heliotrope

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About Me

District Programs Coordinator at Greenville County Soil and Water Conservation District
Square Foot Gardener in Taylors, SC

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