Because your host sucks, I waited until this morning to deal with my seedlings, so I was late getting the picture to AL in time for this morning’s garden chat. I had an amazing germination rate and very few failures per pod, so I took the strongest seedlings and put them in peat pots: The …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: “Looky What I Found!”
From the indefatigable Ozark Hillbilly: I snapped this one of the Woofmeister last week. Somehow or other he never lays down on them. Maybe he enjoys seeing them at this time of year as much as I do. Another promise of impending spring, here in the Northern Hemisphere, from the Washington Post Winter may still …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Seeds Are A Promise
(h/t John Cole, Blogmaster) . From the Washington Post, an update: “On its 10th anniversary, dispelling myths around the Arctic Circle’s famed ‘doomsday’ seed vault” — ‘Tis the time of year to get seeds for the coming growing season. On Monday, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle got a delivery of more …
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Look at All My Babies
Going to be a good crop this summer, I know it.
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Hearts & Flowers Day
… or, as us relationship lifers call it: Amateur Evening! Photo courtesy of ace photographer & funny dude Ozark Hillbilly. And speaking of flowers, from the Washington Post — “How the rose trade lifted Colombia – and nearly erased an American industry”: The majority of roses Americans give one another on Valentine’s Day, roughly 200 …
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Sunday Morning Wildlife Chat: Life (or at Least Finches) Will Endure
Quick garden-related note: I’ve already been, shall we say, less than totally successful at cutting back on the number of mail-order tomatoes I put on hold during the dark winter days (and it hasn’t even been much of a winter here north of Boston, just yet). Mostly because of the dozen plants I impulse-ordered during …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Starting
. Reposted from late-night Friday, the Blogmaster: … I don’t know if I will save any money, but I do know that I will be able to use the kind of seeds I want, and not have blight or anything from factory produced plants. The biggest reason though is that I like spending the time …