USDA Zone 5a
Journals (26)
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This year's failures will drive next year's SUCCESS!!
I put the tomatoes out too early!! With the late frost we suffered about a 95% loss. Also, MORE MULCH needed overall! With the time constraints of working full-time and raising two kids, weeding is NOT an option. Next year the entire garden will have a THICK layer of straw mulch to keep weeds ...This entry is about Steenasunshine's Vegetable garden.
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The "yellows" are in full bloom
Every year my front garden is taken over by the yellow of my heliopsis plants. They are self seeding and I find that every year there are more and more plants. They have even self seeded in the middle of my raspberry bushes.
This entry is about Garden4ever's Perenial border garden.
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My backyard garden is full of beautiful July flowers
This entry is about Garden4ever's backyard garden.
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I look forward to my July garden. I have many different varieties of daylilies. The Stella D’oros are the first to bloom. I have black-eyed Stellas and regulary ones. I am anticipating the others to bloom shortly.
This entry is about Garden4ever's backyard garden.
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Carrots, A Novice Broccoli Mishap and Coriander
First of all, I’m excited because I just harvested some small carrots (they were too close together, so I had to pull some). They are quite tasty. :) Also, I’ve had my first true novice gardener mishap. I’ve discovered that my broccoli plants have worms. This was only after acci...
This entry is about Jsthwrth's Raised Bed garden.
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Raised bed is complete and planted
I finished the raised bed retaining wall a couple weeks ago. Despite my enthusiasm, we had to wait for contractors to get back to us to arrange for topsoil delivery. My wall was a bit taller than they expected, so they took the liberty of removing a few stones (which were GLUED in place) and fi...This entry is about King Family Garden's Vegetable garden.
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Week 2 Progress Report- Manwarren Vegetable Garden
Wow! Our garden is off to a great start. The plants are growing up and out really nicely. Damian is having so much fun learning how sun and water work to grow plants. A couple of the banana peppers are ready to be picked. I can almost taste them on a sandwhich right now. Yum! The chili pepper ...
This entry is about Sarah Manwarren's Manwarren Vegetable garden.
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Last week we Manwarren’s (Sarah- aka Mom and Damian age 3.5)broke ground on our very first garden ever! We really didn’t break ground at all actually. We built two 36 square foot garden boxes and filled it with organic gardening soil. We got a late start so we decided to pick out the ...
This entry is about Sarah Manwarren's Manwarren Vegetable garden.
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Laid down a path of cocoa mulch from the sidewalk to the water meter. Now the front yard smells like chocolate cupcakes…mmm….This entry is about Brightmedusa's Front yard shade garden.
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Just back from the garden. My fingernails are still rimmed with a thin line of black earth…the spring garden, which was very good this year, lush and lovely, is definitely over… So today: I tried to thin & rearrange things in hope of a good summer garden. We’ve had good r...This entry is about Glebegardener's Big garden salad garden.
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