Right in My Own Backyard A Cornwall gardening experience

Right In My Own Backyard – A Brand New Garden

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:24:00 -0400

Alright so it’s August 8 2018, and I was wondering if I was gonna get this blog up and running again or not. I’ve been trying since I started my new garden, and that was back in June. So, here we are. I’m still not sure how this whole blog thing is gonna play out. It’s been seven years since I last posted, and 2 years since I even had a garden. I have a new garden now

Right in My Own Backyard - better late than never

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:32:00 -0400

tweetmeme_source = 'CynergyDiva'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; It’s funny how going out to do just one thing can turn into a two hour gardening session. I went into the garden on Wednesday to pluck a couple of weeds I saw around the tomatoes, and before I knew it, I was weeding and fluffing the whole garden. I then found myself planting more seeds; which I wasn’t supposed to

Right in My Own Backyard - I’m seeing red

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:02:00 -0400

tweetmeme_source = 'CynergyDiva'; There are a few things coming to bear in the garden now. The beets are getting deeper red stems and leaf veins, the strawberries are ripening and the radishes are showing little red tops. As happy as I am to see all this progress, I can’t help thinking it’s all still a little slow going. Is it me, or are things on schedule and as they

Right in My Own Backyard - The fruit of my labour

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:59:00 -0400

A couple of days ago I noticed that one beefsteak and one of the sweet million tomato plants had started to show the very beginnings of actual tomatoes. Today, the sweet million has two teeny tiny tomatoes and now, I can see the beefsteak tomato from outside the garden. I also found a little pepper starting to grow on one of the bell pepper plants, and the strawberry plants are

Right in My Own Backyard–A good growth spurt

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:35:00 -0400

tweetmeme_source = 'CynergyDiva'; The last couple of days have been really nice weather wise. Both yesterday and today I got up to really cool temperatures of around 7° or 8°. I don’t think it got any higher than 13° yesterday and today we are expecting no more than 20° I don’t know if the low temps are any good for the garden, but they’re definitely doing me a world of

Right in My Own Backyard – Divide and Conquer

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Sun, 29 May 2011 12:41:00 -0400

Note: It took some time to get the video and images processed, so I had to keep this post on ice 'til I got it all done. Sorry for the delay. May 26 11h30 a.m. I was just out in the garden getting some planting done but it started to rain. I got some of what I wanted to accomplish done, but not all. Still, I got out there about 9h30 and worked for about an hour or so.&

Right in My Own Backyard – The square foot layout

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:50:00 -0400

tweetmeme_source = 'CynergyDiva'; It’s Monday May 16; it’s still raining, and according to the long range forecast, we still have a couple more days of it to look forward to. I got stuck in as soon as the earth was delivered last Tuesday getting the garden remixed and laid out after a quick run to the garden centre to pick up the sheep manure and bone meal, I got my tunes

Right in My Own Backyard – More death and destruction

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Mon, 2 May 2011 00:43:00 -0400

tweetmeme_source = 'CynergyDiva'; The weather this past week has been up and down, wet and dry, and all kinds of stuff. On April 28 we had a wicked wind storm that not only meant restrictions for the international bridge, but totalled the willow tree next door. I kinda flippantly named a previous post “Death and Destruction”, and now in the face of tree decimation, I see that

Right in My Own Backyard – A Touch of Frost

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:14:00 -0400

Okay, so we never got the really bad road conditions that were predicted last week, so there’s only the one video post today. I guess around 2h00 or 3h00 the morning after I shot the video there was some ice rain but not enough to be too concerned about. We did get the negative temps and ground frost, and a couple of days after that we had a winter storm warning but nothing ever came

Right in My Own Backyard – Everybody into the pool!

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:59:00 -0400

The last few days have brought quite a bit of rain. You should see the garden . . . well . . . you will do when I get the video up. So, April showers bring May flowers, eh? All I can say is they bloody well better bring the vegetables too. This is crazy! It’s not like this every year . . . is it? I can’t remember it being like this. It rained again

Right in My Own Backyard - Death and Destruction.

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:59:00 -0400

No video this time. I haven’t done anything in the garden since I turned and raked over the dirt. I thought the landscaper was going to open last week, but I guess they’re still setting everything up. I’ve noticed that they’ve started bagging up some of the earth and stuff, so I guess it won’t be too much longer now. I know my Honey will be glad when the fence finally goes

Right in My Own Backyard - Prep Work

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:16:00 -0400

This morning I came downstairs to quite a surprise. 3 of my cantaloupe seedlings looked like they dropped from heart attacks. I don’t know what happened because they looked fine when I went to bed yesterday night. I was just getting used to the idea that I might have to buy tomato plants after all because they seem to be going bit by bit, and two of my pots of broccoli

Right in My Own Backyard - Spring is in the Air

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:50:00 -0400

I guess this should turn out to be a relatively short post since until yesterday there wasn’t anything new to report. The seedlings look as though they’re starting to slow down a bit in terms of growth, and I’m starting to feel hopeful that the weather will be co – operative for a timely planting. Yesterday it was so nice out that I was able to get out and shoot a new video of

Right in My Own Backyard - Spring Forward or Fall Back?

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:45:00 -0400

Holy Hannah, two posts in and I'm already procrastinating. I've got some video that I shot yesterday along with some new pics. Every time I get the camera out, I say to myself that I'm going to get the blog post done while it's all fresh. The thing is, the darn videos take soooo long to upload to Youtube. It’s thinking about that that really puts me off working on

Right in My Own Backyard - Garden Status

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:41:00 -0400

Well, I'm getting ready for the new season. Today my Honey went out and got some fencing so that we can keep the mutt out this year, - I think she ate more from the garden than we did - and on the 9th I started some seeds in egg

Right in My Own Backyard - What’s Going On?

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:47:00 -0400

I made a video last week - July 6 - but I’ve been running around too much to get any time to actually sit down and write, and there have been some interesting goings on, so I decided to just go ahead and make a new video. I had originally thought to just scrap the last video and replace it with the one I did this morning - July 13 - but I may just put both of them up anyway. At the time of

Right in My Own Backyard - July 6 2010

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Tue, 6 Jul 2010 00:18:00 -0400

It’s now 6h42 and I’ve just been an hour in the garden fluffing and tying stuff up. We’re in for a wicked heat wave over the next few days. We have a humidex advisory out – supposedly in the 40’s - for today, so I thought I’d better get out there early if I wanted to get anything done. I guess that makes me officially a farmer now. I guess it’s just going to

Right in My Own Backyard - A Blossoming Extravaganza

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:06:00 -0400

I’ve looked over the garden a few times since I shot the video I’ll be attaching to this post, and a lot of flowers have started to come out on quite a few of the plants. The cucumbers, peas, radish, & broccoli all have flowers now, and I think the green beans in the square foot garden are starting to show signs of flower buds. I’m seeing the bell peppers are really starting to

Right in My Own Backyard - Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:25:00 -0400

Well, it ended up coming down pretty good yesterday evening, so again, I didn’t have to water the garden. I really haven’t had to get the hose out too much since I started my garden. Watering isn’t my favourite part of the gardening process, so you won’t hear me complaining about the rain. So far the only thing that’s starting to gain fruit are the peppers. ** It looks like I’ll

Right in My Own Backyard - June is Busting Out All Over

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:27:00 -0400

There’s been quite a lot going on in the garden in a short time. Between my last video that I filmed on June 15 and this latest one I did on June 18, the yellow beans have taken off like crazy. I couldn’t believe my eyes! I had nine really good sized plants. Not too shabby considering only 3 days earlier I only had three or four that weren’t even totally up.

Right in My Own Backyard - Buds & Flowers

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:49:00 -0400

Evidence of a break in I was out in the garden for several hours a couple of days ago (Tuesday June 15) I had only planned to go out and do a little weeding, but it turned into what seemed like an all day thing. Naturally, the weeding turned into a fluff fest, - Some of you will remember I’m obsessed with fluffing the dirt up even where I don’t even have plants yet - and that

Right in My Own Backyard - Yellow Beans Added

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:52:00 -0400

We had quite a bit of rain over the weekend. Most of the day Saturday and all day Sunday. I’m not complaining though; not in the least. The way I see it I don’t really care much for watering the garden, so I really appreciate God picking up the slack for me. We had a break Saturday starting in the afternoon. I decided to have an impromptu gardening session that

Right in My Own Backyard - Someone’s Been Eating My Porridge

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:56:00 -0400

I've added more bricks to the design and put a few more plants in. I don't know what's getting in there, but right from the off, something has been enjoying the fruits of my labour even before there’s any fruit! One tomato and one cucumber top were first to go. Now I’m noticing the cantaloupe leaves are quietly disappearing. I suspect it’s birds. Whatever it is seems

Right in My Own Backyard - Rhubarb Crumble

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:01:00 -0400

Rhubarb My first backyard recipe actually comes from my neighbours’ back yard. They’re not fans of rhubarb, so they just throw it away. I had offered to take it because my Mum makes strawberry, rhubarb pies (not my favourite). It turned out Mum didn’t have any strawberries, and not wanting to waste the rhubarb I had to figure out something to do with it.&

Right in My Own Backyard - Planting Progress

noreply@blogger.com (The Cynergist) — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:47:00 -0400

The next few days are supposed to be wicked hot, so I got out early this morning to get some planting done. Today the humidex is supposed to be 38º, and this is supposed to keep up until at least Thursday. As I write this, it's already 27º and it's not even noon yet. So I better do my gardening work in the mornings. Yesterday I waited 'til evening which was