Kerry’s Garden

I wrote this up back in early October but some how it never got posted. Thought I would share it.
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It’s Sunday evening and I’m sitting at my computer at about 11:30 pm contemplating retiring for the evening when I hear, “KERRY THERE IS A POSSUM ON THE BACK PORCH!!!!”
The problem with that statement (other [...]

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Three weeks ago tomorrow I had some minor surgery. I was only out of work for 2 weeks but this past week it was all I could do to get through work. By the time I got home I was exhausted. The garden received NO attention. This morning I was out [...]

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This past week has been spent trying to get things done before my surgery on Monday. Wednesday through half of Friday was pretty much shot thanks to another procedure this week. Needless to say my garden hasn’t had the attention it deserves. I knew going into this season that this would be [...]

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This evening after work I decided to empty out the small alfalfa tea barrel and give the tomatoes, peppers, a couple of roses and eggplant a feeding. About 15 minutes into it the following conversation occurred with my neighbor from way across the yard (we have no fences between the properties)
Neighbor: “Do you smell [...]

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This is a quick story about a journey through three countries or ‘a gift that kept on giving’.
I read about Kiva from another blogger a little over a year ago. Kiva is a non profit organization that connects small business owners in developing countries with people around the world willing to help with [...]

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Last week two of my great aunts crossed over within about 24 hours of each other. One, Aunt Lillian, I had known since I was a child. She was my grandmother’s brother’s wife, my mom’s aunt. She and her husband Doyle were two of the sweetest, most gentle souls I have ever [...]

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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 [...]

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