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Spring Fevers
Does this ever happen to you during winter? You start out with all these ideas about how you’ll make the winter cozy and/or productive and/or b-e-a-r-a-b-l-e, and before you know it, none of that has happened and the seed catalogs have piled up and there has been no knitting, barely any pickles or chutneys made, and no chestnuts roasting by an open fire. Nor has the stack of must-read books receded by one millimeter. Continue reading
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Tagged bonsai, climate change, cold stratification, daffodils, early planting, garden tasks, grow lights, indoor planting, Joe Pye weed, last frost date, New England aster, planting calculator, plants, raised beds, red columbine, seasons, seed starting, seeds, snow, spring, Ukraine relief, Wild Seed Project, winter
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Getting seedy
You may recall that a couple or three posts back, I said it was way too soon to order seeds. I continued blissfully to think that. Somehow, I had myself convinced that April is when I need to think actively about gardening again.
I do consider gardening a kind of magic. But it has to start with something. Quite a few somethings, actually, but most of them were already outside under the February snow just waiting for the starting whistle. One crucial something, though, relies on me to act, and, I realized as February shazammed into March, act fast.
That something is seeds. Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, foodscaping, garden tasks, grow lights, herbs, no-dig gardening, plants, seed catalogs, seed starting, seeds, vegetables
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