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Best Laid Plans
If there is one thing I need to let go of, it is the obsession with meticulous planning. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Garden, Plants, Spring
Tagged asparagus, borage, coneflower, eggplant, French tarragon, garden planning, germination, groundhog, grow lights, hollyhock, lavender, lemon verbena, lettuce, low-bush blueberry, monthly garden tasks, no-till gardening, peas, raspberry, seed catalog, seed starting, seeds, sweet potato, vegetable garden, zucchini
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Late Starts
It should come as no surprise that my veggie garden this year didn’t go in on time. Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Garden, Plants
Tagged broccoli, chard, cornflower, drought, fall cleanup, garden design, garlic, kale, lettuce, raised beds, sasanqua camellia, vegetables, woodland sunflower, zucchini
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Eleventh Hour
‘Tis the season, at last, for dealing with the last dead or dying scraps before wrapping up the garden for the winter. (Don’t worry: the blog will continue. And I’ll have more time for it!) Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged allium, aronia, black vulture, black-eyed Susans, Butterfly bush, carrots, chard, cilantro, coneflowers, COP26, Coreopsis, Cricket Hill Garden, fall, Festiva Maxima, foxglove, frost, garden quilt, garden tasks, garlic, George Orwell, Greenpeace, kale, Kousa dogwood, lettuce, loquat, lychee, mango, mangosteen, medlar, Montauk daisy, parsley, pawpaw, peonies, plants, Rebecca Solnit, reblooming iris, salt-marsh hay, shallots, United Nations, vultures
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Falling Behind
Every year before this one, fall has come like a kind of reprieve. All those tasks still undone turn moot. Weeds keel over and expire of their own accord. Way too late to plant more veggies; sigh of relief there. The rodent marauders have done pretty much all the visible damage they can manage, and I happily leave the overweening hosta to them. But not this year. Continue reading
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Tagged aronia, beans, climate change, elderberry, fall, frost, garden tasks, garlic, hakonechloa, landscaping fabric, lemongrass, lettuce, Michelle Obama, mulch, pandemic, peas, plants, sage, seed catalog, shallots, snow peas, weeds
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The Department of You Think You’ve Got Problems
Every once in a while, I learn something that puts my problems into perspective. There are degrees of bad. There’s too much rain in one week, for example, and there’s the Greenland ice cap melting. There’s a very dry June, and there’s the Dixie wildfire and then the Caldor wildfire. But let me take you halfway round the globe and invoke the experience of my friend R. Continue reading
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Tagged arugula, Bali, basil, bush beans, cabbage moth, carrots, chard, downy mildew, Heliconia, houseplants, late planting, lettuce, Monstera, peas, pest prevention, pests and problems, plants, rabbit, radishes, shiso, snakes, woodchuck
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