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Tag: Gardening
Three things I love about spring.
In honour of the sunshine, I’m cramming a whole bunch of things I’ve been thinking about lately under one heading. Things I love about spring: 1) Worms! Over the past few weeks I’ve been turning beds and planting seeds in my raised boxes and… Continue Reading “Three things I love about spring.”
So far planted in 2011.
Now here’s the garden update! The last couple of days have been really cold and wet, but despite all that, the garden seems to be moving steadily into spring mode with tulips starting to emerge and lots of lovely budding branches (like the raspberry… Continue Reading “So far planted in 2011.”
Super productive Saturday!
I am uploading the first photos for the 2011 garden season to my Flickr account, but needed to take a stop in here to gloat a little at the tremendous amount of work we got done in the garden this morning: irrigation system installed… Continue Reading “Super productive Saturday!”
Intuitive gardening.
I have to admit – for all my researching and garden planning – when it comes right down to it, I’m an intuitive gardener. Which essentially means that no matter what the planting charts and guides say, I don’t do anything outdoors until it… Continue Reading “Intuitive gardening.”
In the Bookshed: Backyard Bounty
Backyard Bounty Linda Gilkeson New Society, 2011 Often when I’m reviewing gardening books these days, I am called to reflect on just how completely off-base I was in my early gardening attempts in the mid-nineties. For example, when Linda Gilkeson writes about double-digging and… Continue Reading “In the Bookshed: Backyard Bounty”
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