The Growing Season Begins. Now.
Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month -13 at 8 am today Just slept 11 hours. After a two-hour nap. And ten hours the night before. My body is at work, fending off this chest cold I have. I feel … Continue reading
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The Moon of Full Flower
Beltane Full Flower Moon The full flower moon rises tonight on beds full of daffodils, tulips, snowdrops and small blue flowers whose name I don’t recall. The furled hosta leaves that come up in a tightly packed spiral have begun … Continue reading
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Tagged daffodils, daylilies, dicentra, heirloom, Hydroponics, Iris, lilies, snowdrops, tulips, vegetables
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Under the Lights
Spring Waning Moon of Winds The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. – Walt Whitman Business meeting and plants this morning. The business meeting went just fine, our financial management continues to work for us and not against … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden, Hydroponics, seeds
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One Place Above All Others
Imbolc New Moon (Moon of Winds) Kate’s making red velvet cupcakes for Anne’s birthday lunch tomorrow. I finished cleaning out the hydroponics and will start later today planting huckleberry and mustard greens. The leeks don’t have to go in the … Continue reading
Dis and Dat
Quick note: Finally, after over 4 years I’ve cleared obstacles between garage bays, set up during and just before the renovation. Much better. Today I also changed the nutrient solution in the hydroponics and tried again to the encourage the … Continue reading
Two Little Peppers and How They Grew
34 bar steep rise 30.05 2mph W Windchill 31 Samhain Last Quarter of the Dark Moon The big news! I have two peppers emerging in my hydroponic garden. That means the fertilizing I’ve done has succeeded. This is the first … Continue reading
Hydroponics, Pt. II
77 bar falls 29.72 2mph ENE dew-point 65 sunrise 6:11 sunset 8:24 Lughnasa Waxing Gibbous Corn Moon With Kate I decided on the next hydroponic plantings. One bed of different lettuce varieties and the other, lower bed with a sausage … Continue reading
Dig In!
79 bar steady 29.88 3mph NNW dew-point 56 sunrise 6:07 sunset 8:28 Lughnasa First Quarter of the Corn Moon moonrise 1432 moonset 2259 More empathy for the sandhogs and ditch diggers from the old sod who threw the new sod. … Continue reading
An Appetite for Nutrient Fluid (not an alien)
56 bar steady 30.05 4mph N dew-point 43 Beltane, sunny and cool Waning Gibbous Hare Moons “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci Less is more -always; and explore constantly. Mario Odegard, Viking Explorer and Woolly … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Culture, Garden, Hydroponics, tour, vegetables
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Novels In Vitro
48 bar rises 29.83 1mph NW dewpoint 38 Beltane First Quarter of the Hare Moon Once again the papers and books pile up while I focus on the task du jour, getting the garden planted, cleaned up, preened, weeded … Continue reading