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Reconstruction, garden variety
Here it is November, edging into the middle of the month, and for a brief and lovely week, the march of the seasons hit pause-and-rewind.
The warm spell put me back on the hook, though: things I had thought were past praying for, all of a sudden weren’t. Things I thought would just have to wait till spring, now became not only possible but even, perhaps, mandatory. After all, there were (and still are) piles of mulch and topsoil in the driveway, waiting for me to do something with them. They must be dealt with, or horrors will happen…. Continue reading
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Tagged cedar, chard, chicken wire, fall, garden tasks, geranium, hardware cloth, herbs, mulch, pests and problems, raised beds, soil, tarp, woodchuck
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Lazier gardening is in style at last!
Fall is arriving so early this year. Too early for me, now matter which standpoint I’m looking from: how much time and effort I’ve put into getting things to grow, only to see them keel over; or the timetable of advice on fall cleanup. Every time I go out to the garden, I find evidence of demise Continue reading
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Tagged bees, cleanup, coldframe, dahlia, dogwood, fall, garden tasks, hakonechloa, heuchera, mulch, peonies, pests and problems, plants, squirrel
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