Kerry’s Garden

The tomato seeds are in their little beds. I planted 1-2 cups of each variety with about 10-20 seed in each. In a few weeks these will be thinned 1 plant to a cup except for the patio toms which will have a couple of neighbors. I turned the heat aka 75 [...]

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Yesterday I logged 15000 steps. This includes the 6690 steps it took to mow my part of the yard. I know this because my cell phone has a step counter on it. Too cool eh?
Note to self. Do not mow over cut raspberry canes barefooted.
Lets see… into the ground [...]

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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), [...]

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In addition to the rain/alfalfa tea barrels I put together this weekend I also tied up my tomatoes. In years past I have used t-posts between every other tomato. In other words, two plants between posts. This year, being a bit short on posts I went to three plants between posts on [...]

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She SCORES again. Today I took a trip to B. & J.’s place to pick up some manure. They have a neighbor with a dozen or so horses, a rather large pile of aged manure AND a front end loader. Just the kind of neighbor every gardener wants. Two huge scoops for [...]

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Make a hose container of course.
This cast off redwood planter (actually 2 of them stuck together) was destined for the dump had it not been picked up by T. last fall. It wasn’t bottomless at the time but I could tell that the bottom wasn’t long for this world. I set [...]

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This is the first time I’ve dared to look since Saturday. We may or may not get a freeze tonight but it should be about the last one for this round and it shouldn’t be anywhere near as cold as it has been. I’ll take another inventory in the coming weeks to see [...]

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