Tag: garden
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In The Garden: Early July
The upside to the rainiest summer in my memory: the lawn and garden are more lush than ever before. My wife’s tireless gardening and newly cultivated photographic eye have made for some vivid scenery around these parts. I’m not sure why I never posted this before–but ain’t it pretty?
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I’m Ready For Some Blogging; Yes, And Some Football
It’s been a beautiful week, in terms of weather. We’re at the tail end of a five days of lovely, warm weather–Summer’s last gasp, I suspect-=-a little warm, but blue skies and puffy clouds, regular but not incessant rains that have kept everything green and vital, and cool nights. I’ve been keeping busy in both…
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Rainy Morning Meditations
It’s been a good summer, and today is a good day: the outdoor work hanging over my head has been suspended by gentle rains and I woke this morning to discover the low clouds–fog, mist, call it what you will, have confined my visibility–my experience–to a few hundred yards. A gentle wind shakes droplets of…
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Garden Enemies
As a gardener, I have a lot of enemies to which you likely give little attention. At the top of the list, of course, is the diabolical eating machine known as Whitetail Deer. You know him as Bambi. He ought to be in a freezer, but you’ll find him–or, more likely, her in my yard…
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In The Garden: Zombie Gnomes!
Let this be a warning–it’s getting to be garden season, my yard is a disaster area of broken stuff, half-finished projects from last year, fallen stuff, stuff that got crushed by fallen stuff, an old fiberglass truck cap, some seriously maintenance-ready cold frames, and one highly abused trampoline that has really and truly seen better…
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The SHAG-WAGON Parked On My Fence
So, we garden–the front part of our .67 acre plot is somewhat presentable–flowers, trees, a chemical-free lawn–but the “back 40″ is under my domain and reflects my particular Appalachian redneck sensibility. At present, the lawn tractor sits in the middle of the lawn with a flat tire (as good a place to leave it as…
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Garden Fever…
Here’s what we need to add to the garden this year… We’ve got a final, 12′ x 50′ strip of garden–once home to the concord grapes we inherited with the property, that had a virus and would tease us each year with a generous fruit set before every grape withered on the vine a few…
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