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11 Entries.
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Monday, January 1
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Happy New Year to all!
Made it to the summit this morning of Mt. Holyoke. Views of the Connecticut River, Berkshires, NH, VT, CT. A Bald Eagle was circling the summit. Our first time up here.
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Saturday, January 20
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Boston Harbor Winter Wildlife Cruise. 20 degrees and a three-hour tour. No Snowy Owls this year, but a lot of Harbor Seals.
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Friday, February 16
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GPC Big Show in Kasterlee, Belgium. We had fantastic hosts! It was great to meet growers from all over the world. On Saturday there was also a separate offsite tour option. Congrats to all of the award winners! Learned a lot. Great people, great food, and great drinks!
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Saturday, March 30
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We had our SNGPG spring meeting in Exeter, RI today. Congrats to all who received awards.
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Saturday, April 6
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Started two Connolly 1,375 seeds today. Great color and shape, and a proven in small plots.
Also started a bunch of vegetable seeds. Celebrity, Super Sweet 100 tomatoes, and cucumbers will be started later.
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Saturday, April 13
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Today is opening day/clean-up day at the community garden in Boston. We raked and bagged a ton of leaves, and cleaned up branches and sticks that fell during the winter. While Boston only got about 12 inches of snow this winter, we did have a lot of wind. After clean-up, we paid the annual fee and signed the contract.
Once again, we went with Winter Rye as our cover crop-planted it around Halloween of last year. Took soil samples today that will be going to UMass soon.
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Saturday, April 13
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Corner shot of my girlfriend's vegetable garden. While the Winter Rye is a bit spotty in each of our gardens, it still did a very good job of blocking out weeds.
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Saturday, April 13
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The fence on the West side of my plot partially collapsed this winter and is now leaning over private property. A few posts rusted out and completely separated from the concrete. Boston Parks is aware-as far as when it will be repaired, who knows? As a precaution I will not be starting any plants on this side of the garden. Hopefully repairs do not lead to any plant damage in my garden.
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Monday, April 22
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Dropped off soil samples today at the Paige Laboratory at UMass Amherst. A beautiful day for a drive.
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Saturday, April 27
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Reminds me of a ZZ Top song from back in the day.
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Sunday, April 28
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Much better now in two gallon pots with stakes.
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