From commentor Ema Ema: Inspired by WaterGirl’s One Good Thing thread, here is one good great thing from my [Central Park] garden – blooms! White… Pink… Red… Yellow… Cyclamen…
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From commentor Ema Ema: Inspired by WaterGirl’s One Good Thing thread, here is one good great thing from my [Central Park] garden – blooms! White… Pink… Red… Yellow… Cyclamen…
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We also have a certain someone (who just learned about ISO settings) splashing in a puddle like a duck.
And here is a real garden duck.
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We only got an inch or two of slushy snow blowing across from the Midwest’s late-season snowstorm during Friday night / Saturday morning, but I’m just as glad we didn’t take the leafing-out potted roses out of the garage yet…
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To nobody’s surprise, I am still allergic to oak-leaf mold, especially damp oak-leaf mold, but at least there’s several bags waiting on the curb for tomorrow’s first-of-the-season monthly pickup. (Yeah, yeah — if I wanted compost, I could pick some up for free when the city’s finished cooking it. And oak leaves make lousy compost, …
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From diligent gardener & faithful correspondent Marvel: We are finally seeing warm Spring weather here in the Willamette Valley. Sunny, clear, high-60s & low-70s — a perfect time to get out there and tempt every speck of pollen to do its worst. Me? Pegging 11 on the allergy scale today. The ornamental gardens are doing …
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The grafted pear tree we planted last year is in bloom (first up: Anjou) and looking healthy – yay.
Our small gated garden, built last year behind a veritable stockade (against the roving bands of deer hereabout), has undergone a difficult & unwanted rebirth: Last year, as I began reconditioning the soil for their first Fall planting, I found that the beds were totally root-bound after having produced only modest Summer crops. These roots, consuming nearly every square inch of soil therein, had nothing to do with what we planted and had not developed from flown/blown-in seeds during the brief (& row-covered) growing season. Apparently, the custom soil blend we ordered was faulty, likely a problem with compost that had not been properly “cooked.”We ended up removing & replacing all that soil a couple of weeks ago. Hope spring eternal, huh?
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An empty ‘tomb’, waiting for resurrection, seems theologically appropriate to the season and the holiday.
Here north of Boston, the white daffodils have sprung up very lush… but not floriferous, unfortunately. Think they need to be dug & divided, come Fall.
Finally got around to calling this year’s mail-order tomato list to my favorite mail-order supplier, who sounded a little harried. She said they’d been getting ‘at least four times as many orders’ this year as last, so I guess people are either panicked about supply lines or just expect to have more time around the yard this summer!
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Here’s an experiment — commentor Jeff G sent a video clip of his blooming clivias: . Some tips from @gwmag on going to the #allotment during the #CoronavirusLockdownUK https://t.co/BnpOtXgagG — Andrew Wilcox – I?sheds (@unclewilco) April 2, 2020 From the British site Allotments & Gardens: In the UK, allotments are small parcels of land rented …
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From commentor Ema Ema: At the top is a picture of my real life garden – two, maybe three, plants of unknown … everything. And this is my pretend garden. My pretend garden has lawns, trees, lakes, and flowers. (Please pardon the speech bubble, couldn’t contain my inner tween.) The only problem with my pretend …
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by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)| 22 Comments
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Folks, What with all this at-home time more and more of us will have, I bet some folks are looking outside and fancying a bed extension or additional containers. This Spring, I’m all-in on containers, and will take my time making my beds and permanent vegetable garden through this year, with the goal of some …
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Thanks, again, to commentor Mike in Oly: A selection of photos I took at my dear friend’s garden in Ilwaco, WA. She and her partner tend their small garden just blocks from the port of Ilwaco, in a very interesting microclimate. The flat landscape required mounding for the flowerbeds in order to deal with excess …
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