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Post by stepper on Aug 3, 2019 11:43:54 GMT -6
I have to agree with you that using a weed whacker in a home garden seems a bit extreme. Alas and alack! One of my starter pots of tomatoes has gone on the fritz. We've starting hitting days with 100 degree temps and while I still have them protected from direct sunlight because they aren't big enough yet, I'm thinking the heat was too much. Is that a dinner bell I hear ringing? 'Cause BLTs are on the short list of favorites - especially with fresh garden tomatoes!
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 3, 2019 22:48:01 GMT -6
I know, I know. I am not that devious though - in action, anyway. But that doesn't stop me from plotting in my head!
Yeah. Such plotting has lead to best sellers. So, food for fodder for a murder mystery.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 11, 2019 8:02:55 GMT -6
A little bit of free time + nice weather = time spent in my gardens.
Gotta get out there now, while I have the chance!
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Post by Phalon on Aug 13, 2019 5:11:29 GMT -6
I did it! Whoo-hoo! Actually completed one major garden task on my list of many major tasks - and it actually turned out to be way more major than I anticipated: it took me about 4 hours to complete. It seemed so simple - remove a shrub in the narrow garden between the driveway and the house.
It's a Virginia Sweetspire, one of the first things I planted when I started the gardens. It has very fragrant white flowers in early June, and gets great fall color with leaves ranging from fire-engine red to burgundy - really beautiful, but it's a suckering shrub that spreads by underground runners that had gotten way to big for the space; it's only about 3 feet tall, but 7-8 feet wide! I've "made" other shrubs from the suckers over the years, giving some of them away, and planting some in the ravine garden that are now as big as the mother shrub. It took me so long to dig out because there was no main root ball - just a maze of runners. I'd dig a little, and have to cut roots, then pull the cut roots. It was fascinating, and oddly satisfying - I'd pull and pull, and suddenly whoosh!, an entire branch would disappear underground 3 or 4 feet away and come up where I was pulling. It reminded me of a carnival booth at the county fair when I was a kid that's just on the fringes of my mind - I can't really remember exactly what it was, except there being a huge cluster of strings. You picked one to pull, and if you were lucky it led to a prize. Or something like that.
Now I've got this big empty space, just waiting to be filled!
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Post by Phalon on Aug 25, 2019 6:49:40 GMT -6
I didn't get a chance yesterday morning to make my almost daily Whoosh posting. I was too busy laboring over nearly 75 photos, trying to pick just one that I thought was the best.
For the past few years, we've run a month-long nursery Facebook photo contest in late summer; it's kind of my baby - I came up with the idea, come up with most of the themes, and make the posts; I was trying yesterday morning to post the winner, and just couldn't decide. We all vote on the submitted photos, but the problem was we all had different favorites - actually we each had lists of favorites. Each week we pick a different theme, and at the end of that week, we pick a winner that receives a gift certificate for the nursery. The subject matter of the photos must revolve around gardening or nature. Last week's theme was "movie titles", and the entries were very creative. I waited until I got to work to make the post announcing the winner for the week, finally coming to a consensus among us. We ended up with two winners, each of them had very clever interpretations of a movie title that related to their photo.
One of the winners came in yesterday to pick up her gift certificate. She was so cute - very excited to win. She's submitted multiple photos each week so far, and said she's really looked at things in nature differently and more closely than she ever has in the past. When I post the themes, I give a few examples to try to get people thinking; one of themes this year was "patterns", and a couple of the examples I gave were patterns on a leaf, flower, or a butterfly's wings, or of sunlight filtering through the trees. The woman said she's never noticed how beautiful these little details could be; her drive to work now down a tree-lined road dappled with sunlight, is completely different now. And that's pretty d@mned cool, I think.
BLT's on the menu again tonight - because the only time we have BLT's is with fresh garden tomatoes!!! Actually, the only time we ever have bacon is when we have fresh garden tomatoes!
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 21, 2020 15:25:15 GMT -6
This blogger turned his gardening blogs into a book: Reggie Solomon.
Blogs:
http://www.urbangardencasual.com/ http://www.tomatocasual.com/
Book:
I Garden: Urban Style
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