Kerry’s Garden

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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The weather this year has made pretty much everything early except me. I seem to be slower this year at getting everything in the ground. This weekend I tied up the tomaotes, planted the eggplant and some more hot peppers (cayenne and tobasco), a couple of pots of cucumbers as well as some basil I [...]

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I started out this morning planning to spend just 2 hours outside. I had a project that I thought was due on Monday and needed to get on it asap. Lo and behold I found out it wasn’t due till Thursday so… 10 hours later I am exhausted but oh so much is done. No [...]

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I took full advantage of the weather today (sunny, hi in the mid 40s) to get some things done in the garden that really needed to be done. The grape vines I purchased from Miller Nurseries came in the mail this week. Candace and Reliance went into the ground at the edge of the strawberry [...]

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I was greeted by a nice surprise when I got to work this morning. A bag of mixed flower/veggie seed and some seedless grape vine hardwood cuttings were on my desk. Eric had told me that he might cut back his seedless concord grape vine this weekend and I told him I would love some [...]

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I said I was only going to get two but I ended up picking up 3 grape vines last night via Millers. I located a publication on growing grapes in Ky from the Univ. of Ky (great ag college there). I’ve worked with 3 of the 6 authors of this publication during my time at [...]

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5′x40′ Herb Bed I needed some place to put the herbs that I had been gathering in containers over the last 5 years so I decided a strip next to the back patio (and just outside the kitchen door) was as good a place as any. So far I have spearmint, chocolate mint, valerian, St. [...]

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