Kerry’s Garden

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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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Eric gave me a couple of pads of prickley pear cactus last fall. These went into the ground at the time but didn’t root before winter. I know this because something knocked them out of the ‘hole’ and they sat there all winter, uncovered, looking shriveled and purple. Eric swore to me that they would [...]

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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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The large sassafras trees are starting to bloom. The birds really enjoy the fruit, the Japanese Beetles the leaves. Personally I like the root. A little sassafras tea on a cold winter day. mmmm This iris is either Lumicite or Lumilite, I cant read the writing. Its fairly short and pretty I think. My two [...]

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Some years back we had 4 apple trees where we lived. Each year they would get the characteristic yellow spotting of CAR on the leaves. I always looked for the alien looking galls on my neighbor’s cedar tree but was never able to spot them. This morning as I let the dog out I glanced [...]

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Almost 2 weeks ago (or was it 3??) I took some cuttings from my weeping willow and curly willow 4′ tall treelets. Last night I potted up many of the weeping willow. These cuttings were quite small in diameter. I’ve had great luck in the past rooting larger diameter cuttings. I wanted to see how [...]

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