Kerry’s Garden

I am off this week. Its one of those ‘my’ weeks. Nothing pressing, catching up on projects, sleeping in if I want to. If I feel like doing something, I do it. If not, I don’t regardless of what list may have made of various todos. You know, a vacation. [...]

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I have added a couple of new gardening books to my library that I thought I would share.

I’ve mentionted Plant Propagation A to Z by Geoff Bryant here a couple of times in the past week or two. I had originally borrowed it from a local library and fell in love with [...]

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The Internet is a very dangerous place. It is just wayyyy to easy to browse the catalogs, click a couple of times and spend more than I probably should on plants.
I was baaaaad again today. I ordered 2 White Imperial currants, 3 Northblue blueberries and a book on Plant Propagation. [...]

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While out and about today in Cincinnati I stopped by a local store called Half Price Books. The name pretty much says it all. They sell new and used books and when I get over to that part of town I like to stop by and check out their latest stock. Today [...]

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June 15, 2005
The strawberry harvest is over and it is time to rejuvinate the strawberry bed. Mow, till, weed… in that order. Mowing happened the day before yesterday. A push mower set on the highest setting was used over the entire bed. It [...]

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One of the best gardening books I’ve read in a long time is “Garden Secrets” by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and Diane E. Bilderback. Most garden books tell you about how to grow plants which this book does. It goes beyond that though by including information on how day length and temperature affect germination, [...]

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