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The Obsessive Gardener (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I know it may be hard for a lot of people to believe, but when it comes to some things, I am not the best planner. Like my vegetable garden. I usually wait til the last minute and run out to the big box to buy plants and seeds, usually getting everything into the ground around, oh, mid-June. And as I'm planting I realize that I bought seeds that I already have 4 full packs of - like Bloomsdale spinach....
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
You may remember my plea to help get this anti-pesticide documentary seen. Well, that was before I'd seen it myself and now that I have, I can recommend it not just for its powerful message but for the fascinating person...
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The Obsessive Gardener (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was a beautiful day today and I got a lot done, but mostly I spent time in my garden (and a little time on my roof:). When I get enough money, I am going to get this power line underground. It is a nuisance for over head shots and when we want to sit outside and enjoy the stars. This last week I even finished filling the new vegetable beds with compost. I also planted about 60 garlic cloves and...
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The Obsessive Gardener (Free subscription) | yesterday
I love garlic! And I was reading about garlic planting on so many blogs that I just had to find a way to get it done this fall in my garden. I hadn't purchased any specialty garlic for planting, instead, I just headed to the grocery store and bought 8 bulk garlic bulbs. I did this a couple of years ago with great success. The garlic doesn't taste the same after it grows in your garden - it improves...
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | yesterday
GardenRant edition. The whole newsletter is right here. Feel free to admire my new front-yard fence! It's natural cedar and replaces a chain-link fence covered with English ivy (memories of which are fading fast.) Here's the before and after, with...
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Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This Dahlia has been growing beneath the Sambuca Nigra shrub, and is blooming away now. Despite the cold weather and incessant rain it has grown into a beautiful pink bloom. The garden is starting to close down, ready for its winter slumber. The flower is so heavy that it hangs down. I had to hold it up to photograph it. This is only the Second Dahlia bloom this year. There was a single Crimson one...
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A Study in Contrasts (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Seriously, is this not one of the weirdest blog post titles you have ever seen? It's definitely been a strange stretch of days, both garden- and cooking-wise, though, so the title "fits" my week pretty well! The weirdness started on Sunday night, when I freaked out a little bit because the temperatures were supposed to drop down into the low 30s for the first time. I had left my tomato plants...
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Am I the only person who finds fall as labor-intensive in the garden as spring? My daughter's Dill's Atlantic Giants: Almost too big to move Man, there is a lot to do. Crops have to be harvested. There is nothing...
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This story that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle a couple months ago got me thinking about the fate of garden photographers in the digital age. Used to be that a photographer could spend a lifetime shooting plants and gardens,...
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Guest Rant by Xris, the Flatbush Gardener Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been making the news rounds for a few years now. It's old, if still current, news. Dire outcomes from the loss of honeybees have been proffered. For example,...
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Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I took this photo at St James park in London, with the sun behind the tree. I love the effect of the light illuminating the leaves of the tree. The sun is already going down here. I have slept after my nights and seen the garden briefly. The Japanese Maple has nearly lost all its leafs. The garden is slowly starting to slumber. The only thing that is growing is all the bird seeds that have germinated...
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Cold Climate Gardening (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I am cited as a “winter survival pro” at Seasonal Wisdom: http://ping.fm/NLW8i
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It’s always best to tread lightly when discussing garden statuary that doesn’t totally suck, but I was intrigued by some emails I received discussing a trend toward “spiritual” rather than “religious” imagery for the garden (especially among genX gardeners). The...
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
And for the first time in years. Thanks to early frosts, the Norway maple leaves on the front hellstrip, which normally I loathe even more at this time of year because of their reluctance to change color or drop, have...
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Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
They’re everywhere! Or at least advice on how to repel them is—and so is the persistent, if faint, smell from a box of organic repellants I am planning to bring to a suburban friend to test. Though deer have not...
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