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first fruit

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:55:00 GMT

I harvested the first cucumber from my garden this morning, and we had it for lunch. It was good -- not astounding, but better than I've been getting from the supermarket.

Another day in the sun would have been good for it, but I was impatient. I'm going to give the next two more time to ripen, and hope for sunshine tomorrow or Sunday.

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cucumbers

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:37:46 GMT

There is a cucumber on one of my vines! I don't think it's ripe yet, and so will leave it at least another day, maybe several, but the first cucumber feels more like success than all the pretty bright-yellow flowers.

There are in fact a lot of flowers, and the vines have found the trellis. I think so far all the flowers are on two of the three plants; the third is growing, but more slowly.

Addendum (pulled out of comments): the third vine is also starting to flower. It looks like those may be male flowers, which would be useful if I'm right that most if not all of the flowers I'd seen so far are female.

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soil test

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:45:36 GMT

I sent a soil sample to the state lab a couple of weeks ago, and got the report back today. The main point is that the lead level is significantly elevated. They recommend a "sorbed lead test," and give links for information about that test, but I may just decide to take the easy way out and not grow vegetables in the back yard.

( more garden thoughts )

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