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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: “Empire of Seeds”
More people are growing fruits and vegetable at their homes while they practice social distancing pic.twitter.com/8W2xTn0ZvL — Reuters (@Reuters) May 20, 2020 Many thanks to commentor The Mighty Trowel for a lovely Sunday essay on seeds and human connections. Ruby Tandoh, in Medium, on “The Life and Dreams of Esiah Levy”: The seeds would arrive …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Mrs. Raven’s Flowers
From eminent commentor Raven: I’m not big on descriptions but these are picture of the yard beginning with the cherry blossoms and wisteria mixed together. She planted wildflowers on the side of the house and the roses are the centerpiece of the backyard. We also took down a big bradford pear and started butter beans …
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Sunday Garden Chat: A Poem for Cherry Blossoms
From indefatigable gardener and well-read commentor Ozark Hillbilly: Beauty Is not less For falling In the breeze. I’ve probably got it all wrong. It comes from James Clavell’s Shogun. I no longer have the book, and while I wrote it down in a journal of stuff I liked, that is gone too. I tried to …
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My Yard Is Such a Disaster I Don’t Know Where to Start
Cabbage, beets, broccoli, horseradish, and first run of tomatoes are in. The tomatoes are basically the first wave at Omaha Beach. I had enough babies this year that I am putting these out super early and if there are no more frosts and they start producing super early in the summer, great. If not, well, …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: California Oak Savannah
From long-planning California commentor Scout211: Pictures from my yard and garden this time, all taken on May 1. First, one of the last wildflowers that bloom in our area for the year, White Hyacinth Brodiaea, Triteleia hyacinthina: Next is one of the native California bushes that we planted about 10 years ago, the California Carpenteria …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat
From commentor Jeff G: I grow tulips in a pot every year. This is this year’s tulip. And, via commentor Aleta, some seed-starting inspiration: From the Downeaster, “The Maine Farmer Saving the World’s Rarest Heirloom Seeds”: When Will Bonsall was growing up in Waterville in the 1950s and ’60s, his family lived modestly, and their …