Kerry’s Garden

Wooo hooo finally a bee. I have been complaining that this year I have seen ONE honey bee and that wasn’t even in my yard. Typically I see one or MAYBE two bumble bees pollinating my blueberries each spring. I was getting kind of nervous as I hadn’t seen one yet and some of the [...]

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Many people are surprised when I tell them I grow kiwi in Kentucky. No, not the fuzzy brown kiwis you can pick up at the local grocery. These are hardy kiwis, specifically Arctic Beauty. They are quite hardy, like the dappled shade and love to climb. A male and a female plant is needed for [...]

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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 went my yellow carpet [...]

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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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Today was the first day I felt like doing anything so I took advantage of it. I scattered some dill and cilantro/coriander seed in one of the beds, planted a strawberry bag and ostrich ferns I picked up at wally world. The ferns went into a couple of cups on the heated bench while the [...]

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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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