Kerry’s Garden

The trials and tribulations of one Kentucky gardener…

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Entries Tagged as 'Musings'

Christmas in April and Grandma

April 28th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Flowers · Herbs · Musings · Ornamentals

Facelift

March 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Out of much frustration while trying to play with the this blog I decided to update WordPress. After doing so I quickly found that the old ‘theme’ wouldn’t work with the new blog so it was off to find a new theme. I didn’t realize that I would be looking at upwards of 1200 of [...]

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Getting Back Into It

February 27th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Another year has come and the decision on whether or not to have a garden this year was one I pondered for the first time in a long time. As evidenced by the dearth of posts from the latter part of last season, my free time has been drastically curtailed. I’ve decided to cut back [...]

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Tags: Figs · Fruit · Musings · Propagation · Tomatoes

Long Time Gone and Wrecked

September 24th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Has it really been that long since I have posted here? An illness in mid summer kept me inside and out of the garden. The blackberries rotted as did pretty much anything else out there. I was able to can 50+ pints of tomatoes and freeze a few berries before that though. Once I was [...]

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Rosetta@home

June 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Another non gardening post but one I just have to share. Ever heard of Rosetta@home? Here is a blurb from their site: Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer [...]

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In Memory

May 26th, 2006 · 5 Comments

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Tags: Flowers · Musings

The Keys to the Universe

March 20th, 2006 · 6 Comments

I was reading on another blog about how most Americans are clueless when it comes to gardening. I always knew I wasn’t normal… Being a city kid I had never seen a farm and only had a vague notion of what a farmer was. I knew chickens and cows had something to do with it [...]

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