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Entries from March 2006

Weather delays

March 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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Not only has it be raining almost non-stop this month, but now we’ve hit a cold snap. I can’t remember the last time we had freezing weather in March (our typical last day of frost is February 15), but temps have actually dipped into the low 30s / upper 20s four nights in a row.
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My new seeds are here!

March 16th, 2006 · No Comments

The mail man just dropped of a nice fat envelope full of seeds from Pine Tree Garden Seeds. I really like Pine Tree becuase they have a broad variety of vegetable, herb and flower seeds, but they come in smaller packages that don’t cost very much. So rather than spending $3.99 on a packet of […]

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Re-building the greenhouse

March 4th, 2006 · No Comments

In an earlier post I wrote that I was going to re-cover my coldframe greenhouse. And despite a few days delay due to bad weather, I did finally get around to it.
About 10 years ago when I built the greenhouse, I had originally looked into getting a nice glass one, but I didn’t have the […]

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Weird egg

March 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

I was just pulling the eggs out of the chicken coop and found this:

It’s an egg that’s smooth on the front and back but puckered all around the sides like a throw pillow.
Wonder what this chicken has been up to…

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