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This is the height of my tallest tomato plant, its just slightly over 6 1/2 feet tall.

This called "Early Girl Tomato" and it was the smallest of the 3 I planted and I wasn't sure it was going to be healthy and survive.

 
 

Well I can now consider this garden experience a complete success.  I always wanted to make my own pickles and today I had the chance to taste a couple and I couldn't be more happy with how they turned out.

I wasn't too sure if they'd be as good as the ones my friends grandfather used to make but I have to admit these turned out incredible.



They were really easy to make, and I plan on making at least another 5 or 6 jars of them before the end of the season, hopefully.  I started these cucumbe...
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I spent the day setting up a new trellis in the garden.  It wasn't too difficult and I'll probably do some more work on it to improve the support as the plants begin to climb.



I primarily did this because the cucumbers were beginning to sprawl and I didn't want to be overrun with them taking over the garden.

Looking at the previous post Slugs and Soil the garden seems to be growing nicely in the last month.  We've been getting a lot of sun here and I've been watering them every other day or so ...
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The Garden - Today I did a lot outside from organizing the garage, to cutting the lawn to working on the garden.  A few things I did in the garden today should make a difference.

I went to Home Depot and grabbed 5 bags of garden soil, a container of slug / snail poison, and a couple tomato cages. 

The soil was primarily because I dug out some existing dirt around the cucumbers, I would have really saved myself a ton of work if I would have made the mounds / berms prior to transplanting the st...
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Seattle, WA -  It was 10 minutes away from setting a new record for the longest span without rain since 1982 where it lasted 29 days.

It was at the beginning of this long stretch of rainless weather in Seattle that I started planting my first garden.  I planted a few vegetables that were starter plants from Home Depot and also a couple packets of Boston Pickling cucumber seeds.  I was really surprised when almost all of them sprouted.

When I was younger my friend's grandfather used to grow cucu...
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June 15 2009

The garden is coming along great.


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