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You sure are keeping yourself busy and everything looks nice and healthy.
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Beautiful and so good to see those Mulla Mullas flowering for you



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It's paradise under lights! Flowers and all. 

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Sari, your strawberry photo just spurred a growing epiphany. I have two of the lower end purple type LEDs, and find they work better for flowers than vegetables. I can carry snapdragons and strawberries out to my garage at midnight after a few hours of LED's so they can chill and not stretch.
Always look forward to see photos of your garden progress!
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Looks like we are getting first harvest at Easter.
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Venus is my favorite micro. Your photos are beautiful!
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I moved tomato plants on Friday to the small heated greenhouse inside my HFGH 10x12 greenhouse. I am monitoring temperature with a remote sensor from indoors and I have also set up a cheap 360° wifi-camera in there. Now I can check my plants from my mobile phone. Picture quality is not good, but since I got that toy as a freebie with a magazine subscription I had to find some use for it.
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What a great toy, Sari! Is the camera electric or run on batteries?
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It is powered with a 5V USB plug-in adapter. I believe it could be powered with a power bank, if there is no electric outlet available.
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Summer came so quickly that I missed posting what was happening in May and June.
Greenhouse is filling up and we have eaten first tomatoes and a lot of cucumbers.
Outside everything else is growing fine, but my pickling cucumbers have not grown much since planting out. Container grown potatoes did not like the heat last week and looks like those should be eaten soon. We had some for lunch today and I emptied one container and planted some old potatoes with long sprouts in it to have fresh new potatoes at fall.
I am trying some new plants to grow this year in my small city garden. I hope the summer is long enough that corn and artichokes will give us some harvest.
New to me are also these onions, which were started from seeds. I usually plant just sets, but I want to learn how to grow onions from seeds. Ailsa Craig looks quite good, but Rossa Lunga di Firenze are lying down in a mess. I keep the onions covered with row covers to keep the onion flies getting into them.
Romaine lettuce, which I got the original seeds from @Bower are thriving again.
I need to pull the brassicas in the front, since those will bolt soon and plant more lettuce. I did sow more lettuce seeds to a plug tray couple of weeks ago and will plant those here. The row cover has kept the cabbage moths from getting into the plants, but it seems that slugs and snails are having a party in there. I have noticed that wolf spiders like to be in the covered beds, but maybe those do not eat the slimy gastropods. Last weekend I pulled a whole head of lettuce to make dinner and when I was washing it in the kitchen a spider with an egg sac jumped out it. Luckily I was able to catch the spider alive and took it back to the lettuce bed.
Over half of my tomato plants did not fit into the greenhouse, so those are planted in containers and kept next to house and garage walls. I grow mostly determinates and dwarfs outside.
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Greenhouse is filling up and we have eaten first tomatoes and a lot of cucumbers.
Outside everything else is growing fine, but my pickling cucumbers have not grown much since planting out. Container grown potatoes did not like the heat last week and looks like those should be eaten soon. We had some for lunch today and I emptied one container and planted some old potatoes with long sprouts in it to have fresh new potatoes at fall.
I am trying some new plants to grow this year in my small city garden. I hope the summer is long enough that corn and artichokes will give us some harvest.
New to me are also these onions, which were started from seeds. I usually plant just sets, but I want to learn how to grow onions from seeds. Ailsa Craig looks quite good, but Rossa Lunga di Firenze are lying down in a mess. I keep the onions covered with row covers to keep the onion flies getting into them.
Romaine lettuce, which I got the original seeds from @Bower are thriving again.

Over half of my tomato plants did not fit into the greenhouse, so those are planted in containers and kept next to house and garage walls. I grow mostly determinates and dwarfs outside.
Sari
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Everything looks fantastic!
It sounds like we're having a very similar season this year with more heat than usual and extra tomatoes - my extra plants are lined up outdoors as well.
I have two Sherwood romaines from a late winter planting just starting to bolt, so it looks like there will be fresh seeds of this favorite this season.
It's been so hot, I also started some corn seeds just for whimsy. It's a Pink Popcorn which I bought on special for $2, then when I read the packet it says they produce two small ears on plants 10-12 feet tall! I find that really hard to imagine, no stem of that length will survive our winds. I've been reading about some different heirloom corn though, and it turns out there are a few varieties only 2-3 ft tall and 60 days. I think I must get some of those seeds, for hot seasons to come. What kind are you growing?

I have two Sherwood romaines from a late winter planting just starting to bolt, so it looks like there will be fresh seeds of this favorite this season.
It's been so hot, I also started some corn seeds just for whimsy. It's a Pink Popcorn which I bought on special for $2, then when I read the packet it says they produce two small ears on plants 10-12 feet tall! I find that really hard to imagine, no stem of that length will survive our winds. I've been reading about some different heirloom corn though, and it turns out there are a few varieties only 2-3 ft tall and 60 days. I think I must get some of those seeds, for hot seasons to come. What kind are you growing?
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Thant corn is Golden Bantam. I found the seeds at a local garden center and the packet said that it should be a robust variety suitable for raised pallet collar beds. I started the seeds indoors before planting out. The stalks started to fall down in a thunderstorm last week so now I have put panels of a wire compost cage around them to keep them upright.
Many people here are now sowing seeds from the popcorn packages densely to large flower pots to get really bushy tropical looking planting for decoration. It looks kinda neat, but I plant mostly edible plants to my bigger containers, so I did not have any to spare for experimenting with corn seeds.
Many people here are now sowing seeds from the popcorn packages densely to large flower pots to get really bushy tropical looking planting for decoration. It looks kinda neat, but I plant mostly edible plants to my bigger containers, so I did not have any to spare for experimenting with corn seeds.
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I read that Golden Bantam is a good one.
Apparently you have to stick to one kind of corn (sweet, flour, or flint/popcorn) if you want to save seeds of the variety.
However, if you want to eat the immature ears as a vegetable, those varieties that produce a lot of ears would be great. I read that any kind of corn has tender mini-ears which you can eat fresh or also can or freeze them. They aren't so sweet as sweet corn, but nice all the same.
Corn is a pretty wild experiment for me... I can hardly believe people grow it here and get some, but it's true. My friend also starts seedlings to transplant, never direct seeding corn or sunflowers. She did lose everything to the hurricane last year, although they were only about 5 ft tall.
Apparently you have to stick to one kind of corn (sweet, flour, or flint/popcorn) if you want to save seeds of the variety.
However, if you want to eat the immature ears as a vegetable, those varieties that produce a lot of ears would be great. I read that any kind of corn has tender mini-ears which you can eat fresh or also can or freeze them. They aren't so sweet as sweet corn, but nice all the same.
Corn is a pretty wild experiment for me... I can hardly believe people grow it here and get some, but it's true. My friend also starts seedlings to transplant, never direct seeding corn or sunflowers. She did lose everything to the hurricane last year, although they were only about 5 ft tall.
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I just found first ripe tomatoes from Early Tanana grown outdoors.
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It all looks so well organised @svalli . You do a great job, however looking through the photo's I did notice that you have missed one square foot of space for planting! 
Seriously , hats off to some real efficient use of space, it all looks gorgeous and productive too.

Seriously , hats off to some real efficient use of space, it all looks gorgeous and productive too.
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geez, you are way ahead of me. plants look great.
except for a few hot days, the copper country just isn't getting the heat.
we finally get some rain, but temps are only in the low 60s. most everything
is alive in the garden, but just sitting there not doing much.
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except for a few hot days, the copper country just isn't getting the heat.
we finally get some rain, but temps are only in the low 60s. most everything
is alive in the garden, but just sitting there not doing much.
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Beautiful, @svalli! Planting those extra tomatoes against the house is a smart way to maintain a little extra heat around them. Everything looks so healthy. 

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Thanks for the kind words.
It is easy to crop out all unsightly things when posting photos. My kitchen garden cannot be called a potager, which should have well organized layout and be well kept. I have plants in all sorts of tubs in addition to the pallet collars. My greenhouse and garden were built on gravel on top of bedrock, because that way we were able to get a level area, this has then caused that I have to grow the plants in tall raised beds and tubs. Wild woodland strawberries and spotted dead-nettles are growing as weeds on the gravel, but since I am changing our yard to be pollinator friendly, I let them grow. Our small lawn is needing a cut right now, but white clover started to flower and I am saving those for the bees.
My perennial flowerbeds are also growing kinda wild. I have planted everything dense, so that there is no room for weeds to grow and the perennial flowers are fighting for room in survival of the fittest. Right now it looks like crane's-bills are winning and covering everything, but that is OK, since the bees seem to like them too and they flower after early alliums are done.

My perennial flowerbeds are also growing kinda wild. I have planted everything dense, so that there is no room for weeds to grow and the perennial flowers are fighting for room in survival of the fittest. Right now it looks like crane's-bills are winning and covering everything, but that is OK, since the bees seem to like them too and they flower after early alliums are done.
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Cucumbers in the new rope wick watered SWCs are growing so well that they are growing above the greenhouse's horizontal support pipes and also from my reach. Last night I went in there with a small stepladder and started to guide the cucumber vines towards the front of the greenhouse. Soon it will be a green tunnel in there with cucumbers hanging from above.
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