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May 2007 Archives
3:47 PM Thu, May 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau  Email
The garden I love the most is my English garden. Things are just starting to happen there. In another week or so, the arbor should have some roses on it!......
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3:05 AM Thu, May 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Tall bearded iris -- I think it's Indian Chief, from browsing photos at the Historic Iris Preservation Society. Our old house came with the little stand above, which fights for sun. I weeded and fed them about a month......
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2:25 AM Wed, May 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Cabbage Pride I started the Garden Blogs List years ago, part blog post, part bookmarks. Over the years I've kept adding to it as garden bloggers around the world found it and asked to be put on the list.......
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11:11 AM Mon, May 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
New gardeners plants vegetables in containers during one of 12 urban container-gardening workshops led by volunteer URI Master Gardeners in 2003. The 5-gallon buckets they're using are large enough for a tomato plant, according to the chart below, and......
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9:13 PM Sun, May 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
Part of my front yard on this last Sunday in May. Enlarge it. Don’t you get backaches from all the work you’re doing,” asked a man who has been renovating the house next door, just yesterday. I told him......
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12:28 AM Sun, May 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Dave Weyermann Email
One of the first things to come up in the vegetable garden is asparagus. It’s the crop that keeps on giving, as asparagus can produce year after year without much fuss. It takes a few years to be able......
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10:29 AM Sat, May 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
I went to the Southside Community Land Trust’s plant sale last weekend and got some annual plants -- Sunflowers, Zinnia, Celosia. I think the event was successful and I even signed up to be a member. I have several new......
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4:06 AM Fri, May 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
“ A real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil… If he came into the Garden of Eden he would sniff excitedly and say: ‘Good Lord, what humus!’..” KAREL CAPEK (1890-1938)......
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12:58 PM Thu, May 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
OK. I love deer. They're beautiful creatures, and my husband takes photos of them every time they step into the yard (sometimes in families of five). But enough is enough. I want them to stop snacking on my annuals (I......
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12:22 PM Wed, May 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
I have had an herb garden for about nine years or so, and have planted everything from anise hyssop to yarrow. Because I'm in Smithfield and because the spring has been a little harsh, most of the herbs are slightly......
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10:20 AM Wed, May 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
First, some background: Does Pressure-Treated Wood Belong in Your Garden? is a dated (1998) survey of earlier choices. (It's from Kitchen Gardener, which is no more, online at Fine Gardening, both by Connecticut's Taunton Press.) It begins, A couple of......
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3:49 AM Tue, May 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
London photographer Ollie O'Brien -- angryhaggis at Flickr -- volunteered at yesterday's press preview of London's Chelsea Flower Show. He took 55 photos on his lunch break, the largest collection I've found so far, including this "Fantasy House" garden.......
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11:35 AM Sat, May 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
In comments on A 'lawn' full of flowers, Karen Anne wrote, I have been hoping one day to see what your yard looked like, ever since I noticed all your photos of wonderful flowers in the gardening slide show. How......
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5:36 PM Fri, May 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
If you can't be at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, this might be the next best thing. Mix yourself a Pimm's cup and get a preview of this year's show, which opens Tuesday, courtesy of the Telegraph.......
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10:16 AM Fri, May 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
Starting next weekend, you can help plant a kind of grass you'll never have to mow. Save the Bay is kicking off its 2007 eelgrass planting season with harvests at Kings Beach in Newport on Thursday and Friday, then transplanting......
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12:10 AM Fri, May 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
I start seedlings on top of my fridge, which backs into a closet. The bottom heat helps them germinate, but when they're up, then what? I don't have enough sunny windows to keep them happy, and they get leggy......
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4:54 PM Thu, May 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
Everyone likes to try something new. A new plant is usually cheaper than a new tool or pair of shoes, and it doesn't clutter up the closet. Wouldn't you know, a few local organizations are planning plant sales this weekend.......
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4:39 PM Thu, May 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
In the beginning Last summer In the beginning – I knew nothing of gardening or planting. I could not really differentiate weeds from flowering plants. I was not sure which end was supposed to be up when planting tulip......
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10:53 AM Thu, May 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
March delivered "bud blast" to my 15-year-old rhododendrons this year -- turning half of one shrub almost entirely brown but wreaking a little less havoc on the other two. I'm not sure if I did the right thing but, impatient......
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9:51 AM Thu, May 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
Last Saturday's URI East Farm open house set an attendance record, with about 3,000 people showing up on a just about perfect day to buy plants, pet some animals, and interrogate master gardeners. (I still know nothing about tomatoes, OK?......
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3:53 PM Wed, May 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Photo by Sheila Lennon - Click it to enlarge it. Raised bed with broccoli, spinach, lettuce, garlic and giant allium, an ornamental. Its giant purple flower globes are startlingly beautiful. Later: There are also green onions around the perimenter.......
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12:58 PM Tue, May 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
If you're like me -- an amateur gardener who loves the smell of fresh warming earth -- this is the season for you. My name is Karen Bordeleau, and I live in Smithfield, which can be a rather fickle place......
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