Now that the holiday season is upon us, do you have any advice regarding the best way to prolong the life of a cut evergreen Christmas tree? Is there any special solution I should place in the tree stand? (answer).
St Patricks Day means more than green beer and bagels to gardeners. It means its time to plant your peas. Although a time honored tradition, for many...
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The Philadelphia Flower Show, the largest indoor flower show in the world, just ended and our Guide to Philly, John Fischer, got there early to give us a glimpse of...
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Easter season means potted lily season. All lilies are beautiful, but the simple purity of the white Easter Lily is captivating. Choose a lily plant that will bloom...
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I got the word this weekend we had enough vegetables and not enough flowers in our garden beds so got the idea to start a butterfly garden. Upon telling my 6 year old daughter she got very excited and started talking how we can charge admission for people to see our butterfly garden. . . .
Today's high temperature was 55 degrees and tonight it will get down to 30. Exactly a week ago we got eleven inches of snow. By Thursday is was all melted and the thermometer topped 70!
Last year, the end of March was pretty hot and then we got a week of snow and ice in April! The weather here in northern Kentucky in March and April is always unpredictable. So if you want to be successful early in the garden, you need a good cold frame!
Years ago I had a good cold frame, but since I began intensive gardening again two years ago, I haven't yet managed to get another one. I wanted to make one last year but I was too busy with building the deck and with the vegetable garden re-design.....
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I have one more night left before I can sleep, then get up to try to clear some more of the allotment.It has rained every day so far, so I will be wallowing in mud. The temperature has fallen again so it will be cold and wet.I hope April brings warmer weather to warm the soil up. . . .
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Yesterday I reviewed the book “The Truth about Organic Gardening” by Jeff Gillman. I had the good luck of being able to do a Q & A with Dr. Gillman. Below the results…
Just we get it out of the way, are
you single?
looking for someone?
can I forward any emails from interested parties to you?. . .
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I find organic gardening to be an odd beast. A search on the internet would have you believe that the gardening world is overwhelmingly organic fanatics, while anyone who uses any sort of chemicals is akin to rapists and Osama Bin Laden .
I have long found this view to be disturbing. Just because something is natural does. . .
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I've always thought early, small crocuses are best when they are scattered here and there as if they popped up randomly on their own. Well, I (or I should say WE) have achieved that effect in the garden... the other half of this equation being the squirrels, who dig up the crocuses, and re-bury some of them in the oddest spots. It is always a delight to see various little bulbs popping up all over the garden, and guessing what they might be. The only problem with this human-large rodent partnership is squirrel math: an even split is eat six, plant one!
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You tell me: do I have blooms for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day?
These snowdrops are the furtherest along of all that I have. They have “dropped”; that is, their buds are no longer...
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I looked at last year's alloment plan and I'd noted down transplanting five PSB plants on 30/03/07. They seemed to grow away fine.
Nearly a year later I've just pulled them up with nary a PSB worth talking about. Anyone else failed with this crop? Reading the catalogues I had high hopes. You wait a long time but harvest when little else is available. Maybe I should have left them in longer but I needed to prepare and plant up the potato beds before I leave on holiday and they were in the way.
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Here's a video from the TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) of Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. This speech really made me stop and think. The idea that we could farm or raise animals on a piece of land and actually improve the land in the process is just awesome. More people need to start thinking like this.
The video is a little long but it's worth watching.
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At the last minute, I found a few more varieties of pepper seeds, bought some trays and quickly planted my pepper seeds on schedule - March 15. Same date as last year. . . .
In honour of both St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) and Spring (March 20th) falling on the same week I thought it was appropriate that I post some photos of the type of greenery and flower buds that I hope to begin seeing sometime in the next two to three weeks. . . .
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Say what? We have so much different crap falling from the sky all the time that they have to start making up names for it. Instability showers? Ok, I'll believe it. Hmmm...those must be instability weeds in my flowerbeds. :)
*Holy cow, I just found out it's a real thing!
instability shower—See convective showers—convective showers—Episodes of convective precipitation falling in an area no more than about 10 km wide and for a time period of less than about one-half hour.
See, I really do learn something new every day.
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Nah, I don't think so. Though I do hear a lot of, "I can't be bothered," and, "I don't have time to fart with plants."
Bonnie Blodgett: "This may come as news to you, but gardening is on the decline nationally. Quite a surprise to the soothsayers who were predicting just the opposite only five years ago."
According to Chandler Burr "no hyacinth exists in natural form in perfumes". Amazing, since its a note in some of the most well known ones from Estee Lauder's White Linen to Chanel No.19. This would apparently be the scent of phenylatic aldehyde, hydroxycitronellal, cinnamic and phenyylethyl acohols, terpineol and pheylethy acetate and more. . . .
I've been messaging with Melissa at Blotanical and we were talking about growing ginger. I bought a piece of ginger root at the grocery and will begin this experiment for Green Thumb Sunday. I'm going to pot it up and see what happens. . . .
I have been hearing the robin for quite a few days now, especially early in the morning. I did spot him/her a couple of days ago in the neighbour's tree but of course by the time I got my camera it was gone. Last night as I was walking between the kitchen and dining room the robin flew right past the window. It landed in the pine tree at the edge of the garden. I quickly turned on the camera and shot a few photos, but they are a little blurry. But it really is a robin isn't it?
this isn't one of my better photos but it will do until I can get a truly recognizable shot - for those of us that wear glasses, it's rather like looking at the robin without the glasses
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That lucky Carol. Apparently May Dreams Gardens is laughing up some flowers for her to enjoy. If any flowers are laughing out in my yard, I can't hear them--they're muffled by all of the snow that still remains!. . .
via Our Little Acre on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. This speech really made me stop and think. The idea that we could farm or raise animals on a piece of land and actually improve the land in the process is just awesome. More people need to start thinking like this.
