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Where the wild plants are
I heard something interesting once. If you see a plant leafing or flowering really early in the season, it's bound to be a non-native species, getting the jump on its local neighbors in the race for resources and growing space....
June 1, 2007 5:40 pm
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Hooray for iris
I, too, am grateful to my Irises. Most of mine are of the bearded species. I have a good quantity of Siberian Iris in my backyard, but only a few Dutch Iris in the front. I hope to add...
June 1, 2007 1:31 am
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Early shots
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!...
May 31, 2007 3:47 pm
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Heirloom iris, a childhood memory
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...
May 31, 2007 3:05 am
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Updated: The Garden Blogs List
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....
May 30, 2007 2:25 am
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Container veggies: How big a pot, how much soil, companions
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...
May 28, 2007 11:11 am
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Gardening stretches the body, eases the mind
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...
May 27, 2007 9:13 pm
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How I grow, nuke and grill asparagus
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...
May 27, 2007 12:28 am
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