today's garden work
We certainly are lucky with our fall weather this year. Tee shirt temperature and nice rains. Blue skies and calliope leaf show. Today's...
Jumat, 30 Oktober 2015
Kamis, 29 Oktober 2015
looks like a good day for planting garlic
We had a torrential rain storm last night. My fall greens must have loved it. Now it's drying up and the sun is out. I brought a dozen b...
Looking back at Marie Curie’s radical discovery: How the Mother of Modern Physics might have used Google Apps
Posted by Erzsi Sousa, Product Marketing Manager (Cross-posted on the Google for Work Blog .) Editor's note: We’re jumping into our D...
Rabu, 28 Oktober 2015
suzie by the pond
Suzie is in each of these pictures. She runs off when I photograph her too close, but I was happy to get her in the distance. She's been...
Senin, 26 Oktober 2015
notes on Skippy's planting calendar app
- Use app for planning your 2016 garden: A gardener emailed me that she is already using Skippy's planting calendar app to set up her v...
Minggu, 25 Oktober 2015
pears - a bumper crop this year
I'm reviewing each of my crops this year. Here's the story on my my pears. I have two espaliered trees, a Bartlett and an Kieffer at...
Kamis, 22 Oktober 2015
my fall harvest
These are vegetables I picked last Saturday, the day before our first frost. I'll have to post a photo of our watermelon mar...
Colleges and universities find new ways to work and learn with Google for Education
Posted by Michael de la Cruz, Google for Education team Editor's note: In this post, we’re sharing some of the great work that colleges...
my cucumber experiment - cucumbers are not a fall crop
On August 7 (65 days before my average first frost), I planted several varieties of pickling cukes: Cucumber, Salt and Pepper (49 days), Cu...
Rabu, 21 Oktober 2015
A new kind of Classroom for 10 million students and teachers
Posted by Cinthya Mohr, User Experience Lead, Google for Education In a junior high class in Queens, New York, Ross Berman is teaching fra...
bread and butter pickles
My cucumber harvest failed miserably this year (beetles), so I went by our farmer's market and bought a big bag of beautiful picking cu...
Selasa, 20 Oktober 2015
my garden
Here's a photo of my vegetable garden now. The frost covers are off and draped over trellises or the fence behind. Looking at this pictu...
preparing the vegetable garden for frost
Here are things that are important to do in a vegetable garden the day before your first frost. - Pick any warm crop veggies left in the ga...
Senin, 19 Oktober 2015
boring garden tasks?
I was asked the other day about what are the garden tasks I enjoy least. ...... I'm not really sure of the answer to that. I suppose ma...
Doodle 4 Google is back! Show the world what makes you unique
Posted by Sophie Diao, Doodler, on behalf of the Doodle Team Today we’re kicking off the 2015 Doodle 4 Google art competition, where creat...
Sabtu, 17 Oktober 2015
freeze warning tonight!
I worked this afternoon to get my tender greens covered and the last of my frost-sensitive vegetables harvested. A frost, or even a freeze, ...
today's garden work
With a frost coming tonight, I did a lot of clean up at my home garden: - Pick the last of the green tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and waterm...
garlic sources for planting
Here's the list of garlic seed sources that people have recommended so far from my post a few days ago. They look awesome! I can't w...
Kamis, 15 Oktober 2015
Finding Math in the Everyday with Sesame Street and Google’s Course Builder
Posted by Kayla Nalven, Sesame Street Editor's note: Today’s guest author is Kayla Nalven, Content Specialist in Sesame Street’s U.S. S...
green tomatoes
Seems we might get a freeze or frost Sunday night. I picked 32 lbs of green tomatoes today! This caps off a pretty good harvest. I didn'...
Selasa, 13 Oktober 2015
sweet potato harvest
I started digging my sweet potatoes this week. I only dug a small area at the back of the bed. I was pleased to find a lot of tubers, but SO...
Senin, 12 Oktober 2015
today's garden work
At my community plot: - Clean up and compost the last of the squash vines. - Rack beds all smooth (except one with beans, fennel and tomatil...
Minggu, 11 Oktober 2015
ordering garlic - where do you buy garlic?
I FINALLY remembered to order my garlic. I hope it gets here soon. I'd like to plant it at the end of this month - in 2 or 3 weeks. My g...
chickens are molting
My chickens have started molting. The coop is covered with feathers. I guess they are shedding their dirty summer feather and will grow in ...
what caused my garlic to rot? rotation, rotation, rotation
I've been thinking about why half of my garlic crop rotted this year. In early spring, my garlic plants yellowed and curled and then di...
Jumat, 09 Oktober 2015
today's harvest
Lettuce, bok choi and herb fennel. What do I do with all that fennel herb?! I bought is not realizing that bulb fennel and herb fennel are ...
Rabu, 07 Oktober 2015
frost?
We're creeping toward our average first frost date... It would normally be October 10 and was right on schedule last year. This year, it...
Senin, 05 Oktober 2015
today's garden work
I was at my community garden plot. Today's work: - Pick the last of the winter squashes and one last summer squash: a nice Costata Roman...
Jumat, 02 Oktober 2015
potatoes - a tiny harvest
Some things grew great this year and others, well, :-( didn't. On my "didn't" list, potatoes. I thought they were doing we...
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