Kerry’s Garden

She SCORES again. Today I took a trip to B. & J.’s place to pick up some manure. They have a neighbor with a dozen or so horses, a rather large pile of aged manure AND a front end loader. Just the kind of neighbor every gardener wants. Two huge scoops for [...]

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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 [...]

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The weather this year has made pretty much everything early except me. I seem to be slower this year at getting everything in the ground. This weekend I tied up the tomaotes, planted the eggplant and some more hot peppers (cayenne and tobasco), a couple of pots of cucumbers as well as some [...]

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The plan was to get the two 3 gallon pots of asparagus I started from seed last year planted out into the garden this spring. I had a spot picked out at the back edge that would hold about 75 plants just fine. Well as per usual this time of year the ground has been [...]

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Feb 6, 2005
Scattered some oriental poppy seeds in flower bed. I couldn’t find the poppy seed i got from the plant swap last summer.
Checked blackberries, aok. The severe cold didn’t get to them. Probably because of the snow cover.
Planted some of Mallie’s Mimosa in a 4″ pot and sat in miss kim lilac barrell [...]

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