Kerry’s Garden

Yesterday I logged 15000 steps. This includes the 6690 steps it took to mow my part of the yard. I know this because my cell phone has a step counter on it. Too cool eh? Note to self. Do not mow over cut raspberry canes barefooted. Lets see… into the ground went my yellow carpet [...]

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I’ve been so busy doing stuff in the garden that by the time I get in and get cleaned up I am too pooped to post. Saturday I went to Eric’s. The weather called for some rain in the morning so I finally put my rain barrels out. We didn’t end up getting any rain [...]

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Today was the first day I felt like doing anything so I took advantage of it. I scattered some dill and cilantro/coriander seed in one of the beds, planted a strawberry bag and ostrich ferns I picked up at wally world. The ferns went into a couple of cups on the heated bench while the [...]

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I am off this week. Its one of those ‘my’ weeks. Nothing pressing, catching up on projects, sleeping in if I want to. If I feel like doing something, I do it. If not, I don’t regardless of what list may have made of various todos. You know, a vacation. The better part of this [...]

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It was very hard not to get depressed this summer every time I looked outside. By the time I was able to get back outside after my surgery the drought was in full swing. My rain barrels helped some but when there is no rain coming for weeks on end empty barrels don’t do much [...]

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Slowly but surely I am getting my energy back. Today I mowed part of my part of the lawn. It was in desperate need and I did pretty good. We have a pretty good chance of rain tonight and tomorrow and the ground is bone dry so I emptied both barrels giving about half the [...]

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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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