Kerry’s Garden

The trials and tribulations of one Kentucky gardener…

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Entries Tagged as 'Musings'

A New Look

March 20th, 2006 · No Comments

With the change of seasons comes a change of look for Kerrys Garden. I have four backgrounds that I use for the different seasons of the year. Normally I forget to change the background till a week or two into the new season. Tonight I decided to put an end to that. I wrote a [...]

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What a Sight to Behold…

March 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Yesterday I received the Brown Turkey fig and Northblue blueberries I ordered from Miller Nurseries. Since all were destined for containers that is where they went. Of course they came on one of THE rainiest days (weekends) we’ve had in a long time. So, there I am standing out in the pouring rain (thunder off [...]

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Tags: Blueberries · Figs · Fruit · Musings

Kiva – What an Awesome Idea

March 11th, 2006 · No Comments

I was reading Amy Stewart’s blog about Kiva, an outfit that connects small business owners in poorer countries with people willing to loan a little help. In a nutshell it goes like this. You loan a specific small business as little as $25. They pay the loan back (terms seem to be typically a year [...]

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Garden Blogging on the Go.

February 18th, 2006 · 10 Comments

I got the greatest birthday present this year. My daughter and partner bought me a Palm T|X. I LOVE this thing. It has a 312Mhz processor, 128 megs of memory, will take up to a 2 gig sd card, 480×320 display (portrait or landscape), builtin wireless for syncing and the internet, bluetooth, will play movies, [...]

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95 and counting

January 2nd, 2006 · 5 Comments

My grandmother Verda turned 95 today. I called and sang her happy birthday. I’m sure she could have gone another 95 years without hearing my singing again. Grandma loves gardening. She hasn’t had one in several years as she now lives in an assisted living facility. I wished she lived closer, I would like to [...]

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Zone What???

December 21st, 2005 · 2 Comments

Today at work I had the following conversation with a couple of co-workers… “I would never live north of zone 6 but zone 7 would be perfect. It is in the upper end of some plant ranges and the lower end of others” “Zone 8 would be my ideal but I agree nothing north of [...]

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67,702, 67,703, 67,704…

November 18th, 2005 · No Comments

Well its official. Since Nov 18, 2004 I have rec’d 67,704 email messages. A mere 68% or 45,791 of these were spam. That leaves just 21,913 valid emails for me to go through. If I’m a little late responding to your email you now know why.

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