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Found in the Garden

May 25, 2021 By Carol Leave a Comment

For those who read my last post, I'll share an update. I found my gardening knife. It was lying on the stone edge of one of the raised beds in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral. In plain sight. The replacement knife, with a sharpening stone, arrived the next day. So now I find I have a gardening knife, a back up gardening knife, plus a back up for the back up gardening knife. I've found it useful at times to have multiples of the same tool. Other things I've found in my garden … [Read more...] about Found in the Garden

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Lost in the Garden

May 23, 2021 By Carol 4 Comments

I recently finished a long session of weeding by losing my gardening knife. Some gardeners call these useful knives hori-hori knives, and they are quite useful for weeding, planting, and even cutting an edge on a flower border, if one decides to do that by hand. They are also easily lost, I've found, ironically, as this is not the first time I've lost mine in the garden. I lost this particular gardening knife several years ago and only found it after I bought a second knife. That knife … [Read more...] about Lost in the Garden

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Keeping Track of Plants

April 30, 2021 By Carol 2 Comments

Tucked in a little triangle of ground between the house and a little path of pavers I made to get to the hose spigot, I found some ice plants, Delosperma, blooming the other day. I know I did not buy these but recall getting some as trial plants. I did a quick search through my email and I found that in 2016, I indeed got some Delosperma to trial, but I kind of think I planted those in the back garden somewhere. If this one in the picture is one of those, then it is a Jewel of Desert® … [Read more...] about Keeping Track of Plants

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What a Gardener Can Do

April 19, 2021 By Carol 4 Comments

We've reached that time of spring around here when we are not yet frost-free but a freeze could hurt a little bit. Especially if you are one of those gardeners who simply couldn't wait to plant out annuals that don't like frost and you didn't have me whispering—shouting—in your ear that it is too early to plant out annuals and vegetable plants that don't like frost or even temps in the 40s for that matter. What about pansies? Pansies will be fine, as will violas and daffodils and other … [Read more...] about What a Gardener Can Do

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First Mowing and a Garden Visitor!

April 1, 2021 By Carol 1 Comment

My thoughts wandered, as they often do when I am mowing the lawn, but they came into sharp focus just as I was mowing the last little section in the front. By the way, I generally wait as long as possible in the spring before mowing the back lawn because of the flowers I've planted in that lawn over the years. The crocuses have finished flowering, but the Glory of the Snow are in their prime. Fingers-crossed that they are still blooming for the big Easter egg hunt. I suspect they will … [Read more...] about First Mowing and a Garden Visitor!

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Mother Nature Would Like to Remind You

March 27, 2021 By Carol 1 Comment

Did you dream all winter about how lovely your garden was going to be this spring and summer? All the pretty flowers, the perfect vegetables, the song birds singing. I sure did. I always do! There's something about winter and snow and cold to give a gardener illusions (delusions?) of how in the spring their garden will once and for all become the very definition of perfection. It will be a paradise of your own making. And then Mother Nature reminds you... There are going to be some … [Read more...] about Mother Nature Would Like to Remind You

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