Gardening

Gardening

Planted my window boxes

June 12, 2012
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Planted my window boxes

I planted five of these the other day using double petunias, coleus, sweet potato vine and spikes.  I also added some baby's breath seeds but don't see any sprouts yet. Here was my pathetic attempt at taking a close up of a petunia, I think it almost looks like an Andy Warhol painting.

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Garden Progress

June 11, 2012
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Garden Progress

As I've mentioned before, my garden, in it's second year, needed a fence.  Well, I'm happy to say that the fence is up!  Then I wanted stone to put down in the paths.  Check, the stones are in the process of being laid.  We have one load, about 3000 pounds of 3/4' crushed stone,...

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Where did June Go?

June 4, 2012
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Where did June Go?

Photo by Carol Brown Flickr creative commons It's June 4TH and I'm FREEZING!  It's been a rainy dark day and I just let my doggie out and brrr, it is down right cold out there.  I just checked the weekly weather forecast for this week and I can't believe that the low tonight will...

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My Favorite Spring Flowering Perennial!

May 18, 2012
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My Favorite Spring Flowering Perennial!

PRIMULA JAPONICA Since I took the master gardener course some twelve years ago, I have been studying plants and trying to match them to my specific conditions.  That is when I fell in love with the Japanese Primrose, (primula japonica).  I would scour a multitude of gardening books and just drool over the pictures...

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It might choke Artie, but it ain’t gonna choke Stymie!

February 21, 2012
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It might choke Artie, but it ain’t gonna choke Stymie!

  Photo credit: matthewbridges from morguefile.com Happy winter everybody.  I'm excited because I planted my artichoke seeds today!  I know it's only february but here in the mid atlantic zone - 5b, if one wants to grow artichokes and actually harvest some artichokes, I've read you have to start them in february indoors.  Granted this is my...

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My Square Foot Garden

February 21, 2012
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My Square Foot Garden

Last year was the first year I attempted vegetable gardening on my property. I always wanted a garden but knowing that my soil was full of clay and rocks, I was overwhelmed with the amount of work preparing the soil would be.  I was also suffering with Lyme disease and just not feeling up...

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