Kerry’s Garden

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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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 the Indeterminate Big [...]

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A group of fellow gardeners and I have gotten together at work and formed a very loose and informal gardening group. Its really just more of a group of people interested in gardening than any kind of organized club. We have had a lunchtime presentation given by Eric (my landscape gardening mentor and friend) on [...]

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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 how these [...]

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A quick trip to the yard this morning left me in amazement. I swear when I checked things a couple of days ago most of it was still in it’s winter slumber. This morning there was growth everywhere I looked. Most of the willows have leaves as do the roses, kiwi, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, blueberries [...]

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Woo hoo my lucky day. I found 2 volutneer Stevia plants about 10 inches tall. I had grown some there last year and let them go to seed. Its funny, when I was weeding the bed a while back I noticed this clump of stuff coming up. I didn’t pull it because I thought it [...]

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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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