Kerry’s Garden

I saw a hummer visiting our tulips this morning which reminding me of the hummingbird feeder that I picked up on Monday. Time to get that bad boy out and filled with some sugar water. I picked up two stevia plants last night while at Lowes getting plumming parts to fix the broken faucet. One [...]

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I’ve been so busy doing stuff in the garden that by the time I get in and get cleaned up I am too pooped to post. Saturday I went to Eric’s. The weather called for some rain in the morning so I finally put my rain barrels out. We didn’t end up getting any rain [...]

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It was very hard not to get depressed this summer every time I looked outside. By the time I was able to get back outside after my surgery the drought was in full swing. My rain barrels helped some but when there is no rain coming for weeks on end empty barrels don’t do much [...]

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Slowly but surely I am getting my energy back. Today I mowed part of my part of the lawn. It was in desperate need and I did pretty good. We have a pretty good chance of rain tonight and tomorrow and the ground is bone dry so I emptied both barrels giving about half the [...]

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Today was one of those days that started out rough (headache and a trip to the chiropractor) but I ended up getting a lot of little stuff done after a 2hr nap. I transplanted some small containers of willow (scarlet curls and black maul from cuttings), lavender (2 minis I picked up from ebay), chives [...]

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The 70+ weather we had been having has brought out pretty much everything over the past couple of weeks. The currants are preparing to bloom, the blueberries already are, the blackberry and raspberries have a good 4-5 inches of new growth but no buds yet. The grapes are on about their third leaf. Last night [...]

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This evening I went to the basement to check on the cuttings and seedlings I have under lights. I noticed several of the kiwi cuttings had lost a leaf or two and others were trying to grow some blossoms. I decided to pull one out to see if there were any roots or if the [...]

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