Kerry’s Garden

The rain we have been getting has really helped everything look great. I just love all the colors this time of year.

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With last year’s drought a distant memory I am preparing for this year’s garden. Things are pretty soggy outside and have been for some time. I am sure the trees are loving this moisture. It hasn’t been very cold but fortunately cold enough to keep things dormant so far in my yard. This wet and [...]

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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 in the garden by [...]

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Here is the False Indigo flowers I mentioned yesterday. This was one of my mother’s day presents from the kid last year. Good kid there. This iris was at the house when we moved in. I thinned out the bed and planted a number of the starts here year before last. This is the first [...]

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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 basil I [...]

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We must have had quite a storm while I was gone last night watching the May Festival Chorus rehearsal. We have one medium sized branch in the lawn and lots of things were leaning in the same direction. According to the bucket sitting on the back porch we had over an inch of rain. Nothing [...]

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96F with a heat index of 107. We received about 1 3/4″ of rain yesterday morning so the humidity is up to about the ‘soup’ level. The older I get the harder the heat is to take. Just about 10 years ago I used to work outside all day in this stuff. If I tried [...]

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