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Author: Jenny Smith

I'm Jenny Smith. I blog about life on the 300+ acres of rolling farmland in Northern Virginia where I live. I like tomatoes, all things Star Trek, watercolor, and reading. I spend most days in the garden fighting deer and groundhogs while trying to find my life's meaning. I'm trying to be like Jesus -- emphasis on the trying.
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Cucumbers planted!

Jenny SmithMay 23, 2020July 2, 2020

Jared finally fixed the broken trellis, so I put in my little baby cucumber plants today. I had planted three…

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bale garden, beans, cucumber, garden, leeks, lettuce, onions, peas, Squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, zucchini
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Catchup day

Jenny SmithMay 16, 2020July 2, 2020

Today is garden catchup day. It’s been too cold to work, so today we made up for it. We cut…

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Blackberries, flowers, garden, hollyhocks, leeks, rose, tomatoes, zinnia
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Tomato planting day!

Jenny SmithMay 14, 2020July 2, 2020

It finally came! I’m like a kid waiting for Santa, except instead of being excited to play with toys, I’m…

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bale garden, clematis, coronavirus, disease, fertilization, garden, irises, peas, planting, roses, tomatoes
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Self-control when gardening

Jenny SmithMay 11, 2020April 9, 2021

It is taking every bit of self-control I can muster to avoid planting my vegetables out right now, even though…

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beans, cucumber, garden, seed starting, Squash, tomatoes
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Italian grape

Jenny SmithMay 8, 2020July 2, 2020

The Italian grape tomato plant — last of the seeds I stole from Italy six years ago, and the only…

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seed starting, tomatoes
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How to double or triple your asparagus yield

Jenny SmithMay 7, 2020July 26, 2020

We end up with a lot of asparagus each year, and I mean A LOT. I have 25 asparagus plants…

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asparagus, garden
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Bear Claw blooms

Jenny SmithMay 7, 2020July 2, 2020

The tomato plants I ordered from Laurel’s Heirloom Plants in California came in on Saturday! She had them packaged really…

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asparagus, bale garden, beans, cucumber, flowers, garden, melon, peas, tomatillos, tomatoes
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Great weather but…

Jenny SmithMay 2, 2020November 27, 2023

It’s beautiful outside today! It’s 70 degrees with sunshine and a light breeze — almost couldn’t be better weather. It…

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beans, garden, leeks, melon, onion, Squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, weeds, zucchini
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Finished drip line, planting, sharing

Jenny SmithApril 30, 2020July 2, 2020

The weather was unseasonably warm yesterday, which means a thunderstorm is coming, That meant I needed to focus on getting…

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drip irrigation, fertilization, garden, seed starting, tomatoes
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Garden testing and infrastructure

Jenny SmithApril 28, 2020August 5, 2021

Today I’m going to post about the infrastructure we are adding to the garden this year in the form of…

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drip irrigation, garden, soil testing, tomatoes, trellis

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