Vegetable Garden Timelapse
It’s that time of year again! I’ve been moving the tomato plants I started under lights indoors to the garden bed in the back yard. This year I also sewed some seeds outside, including lettuce (thanks...
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Watch May fly by for my vegetable garden in under a minute.
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May was unusually cold and rainy, even by San Francisco standards, so the tomato plants in the back yard veggie garden have barely budged since they went in, but the salad mix has just exploded. The...
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A timelapse video of three weeks of growth in this year’s vegetable garden. The photos were taken from June 13 to July 2 … and then the batteries died. When things disappear it’s because they were...
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They Are Hugging
I grew carrots for the first time this year and wasn’t sure how they’d do. So, I have to admit, I sewed the seed into the garden bed a little thick, and I never bothered to thin them out. As a result,...
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I had the PlantCam on this guy for almost two months, hoping to make a timelapse from tiny fruitlet to red tomato. But, alas, he fell off before ripening. I blame the wind, which you can see whipping...
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If I’d Kept Him Any Longer, I Might Have Named Him
I’ve been sewing seeds in the vegetable garden outside for a few weeks now – the winter stuff you can plant anytime in San Francisco: carrots, spinach, and lettuce – and one by one, the seedlings have...
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Like Turducken for Vegetarians
A couple months ago I was slicing up a store-bought tomato for a salad when I noticed the seeds inside looked darker than usual. Upon closer inspection, I realized that they had germinated and were...
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A Fistful of Carrots
Oh hi! I know, it’s been a while. Miss me? The will to blog comes and goes, while the plant urge stays strong. Harvesting carrots. Photo by Heather Champ, shirt from You Grow Girl. As last year, the...
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My Tomato Desperate Measures
I love tomatoes. And I love San Francisco. But where I live and the veggies I love don’t always get along. Every spring since I moved to my current home in the geographical center of the city, I have...
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