Mikhailah's Blog

A Gardener's Diary - Finding my way again

Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 GMT

Haven't 'blogged' for close on a year now, the reason being, I came back from the UK early Oct. last year and the garden was a mess, no one took care of it at all. :(

So I decided to just le...

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A Gardener's Diary - The Day of the Pumpkin!

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:30:00 GMT

Wow, I've been away for ages! Hope someone missed me?!

The garden seems to almost be t...

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A Gardener's Diary - Tropical Wave has just about gone!

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:14:00 GMT

I think that tropical wave we had has officially heralded the rainy season here. June begins the hurricane season which ends in November.

I haven't been in the garden for a few days now. ...

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A Gardener's Diary - Tropical Wave, just passin' through!

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:09:00 GMT

Well, we're seeing the tail end of a tropical wave here. Happens everytime, I plant some potatoes and we have a deluge of water. Hopefully this planting will survive, they're ...

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A Gardener's Diary - Observations

Thu, 31 May 2007 15:47:00 GMT

My California Reds onions are beginning to surface now, I was worried that the sun was drying out the soil before they could germinate, but that's not the case.

I pulled ...

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A Gardener's Diary - Almost June in the Garden

Wed, 30 May 2007 19:08:00 GMT

We're finally getting some more overcast weather here. It's been so dry everywhere, the grass is brown all over the island and looking very sick. I'm hoping for some rainy weather now. PLEASE!

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A Gardener's Diary - Updates and New Plantings

Wed, 23 May 2007 15:49:00 GMT

I was up early this morning in the garden. It's the best time, when the sun is just rising and the day is relatively cool. I can get a lot done between 6 and 8am.
This morning I cleared down s...

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A Gardener's Diary - The Weekend and Beyond

Tue, 22 May 2007 16:25:00 GMT

On saturday I pulled up all my onions, some still had green stalks but they needed to come up. I can't begin to tell you how good they smelled when I was sorting through them. I'm ...

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A Gardener's Diary - Harvests, Asters & Mums

Thu, 17 May 2007 22:45:00 GMT

Well, since my flower seedlings are not growing too fast I went out and bought four Asters (I have to read up on what these are and how to grow them) and four
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A Gardener's Diary - Hungry Monkeys vs 'Margaret Scaremonkey'

Tue, 15 May 2007 19:59:00 GMT

Two varieties of my english peas are showing thru now. The ones I got from Canada are still sleeping I think. Maybe I'll plant the more of the others in their place if they d...

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A Gardener's Diary - More Observations

Wed, 09 May 2007 13:52:00 GMT

Well, just about all of my bush beans are up now. There's always something very satisfying about growing a simple bush bean, of the few things guaranteed in life, ...

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A Gardener's Diary - Observations and Planting

Mon, 07 May 2007 23:36:00 GMT

Having a good day today, I checked the garden early this morning, some of my bush beans are almost up, the soil is slightly breaking where they're pushing through.

The <...

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A Gardener's Diary - Weekend Weeding and Strawberry Dreams

Sat, 05 May 2007 22:33:00 GMT

Last evening I planted my pumpkin seeds and my lettuce seeds. In the herb bed I planted Sweet Basil and Dil...

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A Gardener's Diary - Peas & Planting

Fri, 04 May 2007 16:40:00 GMT

I was looking out yesterday afternoon and realized that my 'shady' spot under the mango tree gets the sun for maybe a couple hours a day, 3-5ish. So I figured I'd try to grow some of my Eng...

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A Gardener's Diary - Updates

Thu, 03 May 2007 16:01:00 GMT

Was out early this morning, managed to get a few things done.

I changed my mind about the shallot planting. I decided to plant some bush beans instead. S...

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