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Thursday, April 27, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Well, I was very impatient to see what was going on with my seeds, so I scraped the top of the soil off very carefully with a tooothpick last night. So far it's been almost 4 days and the 1446 Eaton has not emerged from the soil. I am starting to lose hope with this seed, it still seems to be as deep as I planted it. The 1195 VanKooten that I planted a day later is almost up, and I have high hopes for it--now that my other one is most likely a no-show. The nice thing about this, is that I won't have to decide which one I want to grow--that decision can be excruciating, it's nicer when nature decides for you.
Bamboo update: Looks like my little "moso" is very unhealthy. I called the bamboo specialty nursery where I bought it and the lady said I may have overwatered it. I maintain that it was sick when i bought it--the leaves were already drying at the tips bigtime. The two new shoots dried up, so my expected growth for this season is finished (once the top of a bamboo shoot or culm goes, it stops growing).
The regular garden is doing great. Garlic is huge (good thing i planted in October--has made a big difference in growth). Shallots are up and out very well, and potatoes are sprouting as well. When I was weeding the garlic I found several potatoes sprouted from the previous year--so I just transplanted them to my potatoe bed.
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