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Saturday Garden Report

July 13, 2013 by Tiffany Davis 2 Comments

GardenReportToday I went to my friend Donna’s house for a fall garden class.  I snapped a few shots of her amazing backyard garden – she is THE BOMB.  It should be noted that she put her beds to sleep for the summer and 90% of what is growing now are simply volunteers that popped up on their own.  Most if it is a MASSIVE butternut squash plant…I’m so jelly. ;P

Donna is a wealth of information and was doing the whole backyard homesteading thing before it was hipster…aka cool.  You can find her at Sharing Life’s Abundance…tell her Tiff sent you!

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Notice the sun shade above…that is AZ gardening folks.

Donna giving us tips and instruction

Donna giving us tips and instruction

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More instruction of the class…

A little on open air composting

A little on open air compost…do you see the chicken?

More of her massive squash plant!

More of her massive squash plant!

I am not sure I want to post my pictures now…I’m feeling a bit…inadequate.  O well here we go!

I’m pretty stinking happy with my watermelon…BOOM BABY!

Bud maybe?

Bud maybe?

I swear these are 3x longer in 1 week!

I swear these are 3x longer in 1 week!

Come on green peppers...cut a girl some slack and G R O W!

Come on green peppers…cut a girl some slack & grow!

I think I may just accept defeat and pull the cucumbers.  :(

I think I may just accept defeat and pull the cucumbers. 🙁

Sweet potatoes are coming back from my over-watering last week.

Sweet potatoes are coming back from my over-watering last week.

Now last, but not least, my tomatoes in buckets.  I trimmed these up on recommendation and to experiment.  I am getting a lot of new growth on 2 of them.  But the Golden Jubilee may not recover.

Cherry Tomato...and Sunny the Aussie

Cherry Tomato…and Sunny the Aussie

Golden Jubilee

Pink Brandywine

Pink Brandywine...it may get pulled.

Golden Jubilee…it may get pulled.

 

After today’s class I know that my focus for the summer is to build my compost and focus on good healthy, living, soil for fall planting.

Click Here & Where the Shirt!

Click Here & Wear the Shirt!

 

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