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July 2007 Archives
2:59 PM Tue, Jul 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine  Email
While working over a wire story about mulches for this Sunday's Lifebeat Home section, I came upon this undated but tidy summary of peats from House and Garden. It explains a lot. I'd heard about the controversy over the use......
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5:15 PM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
OK. So it took more than the lure of a day in the gardens to entice me this weekend to Elm Bank, headquarters of the Massachusetts Horticulture Society, in Wellesley, Mass. I went up for their yearly fundraising antiques......
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9:25 AM Sun, Jul 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
"Have you pulled your garlic yet? You should," asked my colleague Sara Cooke Friday. She had given me bulbs from her husband's garden to plant last fall, and periodically checked in to see how they were doing.. "I pulled......
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11:20 AM Fri, Jul 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
Creeping myrtle is found in all corners of my yard. It forms a wide circle under an old cedar tree, borders my vegetable garden on its south side and thrives along the entire south side of the house. It's an......
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7:00 AM Fri, Jul 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Reader Marshall Votta of Greenville wonders if anyone has tried the Noodlehead sprinkler, whose flexible tubes promise pinpoint watering. "I was thinking about using it for some Japanese holly and mountain laurel which seem to need more attention with water......
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10:33 AM Wed, Jul 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
The front garden after weeding Out in the garden, Out in the windy, swinging dark, Under the trees and over the flower-beds, Over the grass and under the hedge border, Someone is sweeping, sweeping, Some old gardener, Out in......
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2:34 PM Tue, Jul 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
My garden's a bust for the moment. I'm going to have to put in some serious yard-girl time soon, replanting shrubs and restoring beds trampled in a good cause. But for those of you feeling a little more inclined to......
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4:35 PM Mon, Jul 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
You know they're out of control when you set your alarm to go off early on Saturday morning, get dressed in already-dirty clothes, apply bug repellent, put on an old hat and your mud shoes and head out to the......
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12:54 AM Mon, Jul 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Click this photo to enlarge it . Amazing what comes from a squash seed. Just amazing. Imagine if they were huge.........
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10:56 AM Fri, Jul 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
If you garden, you know a few bugs. Meet some more. This is stunning macrophotography -- closeups of living, improbable bugs, frogs, scorpions, moths, mantises and small monsters, well lit and in perfect focus. These, and many more, are at......
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11:02 AM Thu, Jul 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
While making dinner last night, I glanced up to see that deer eating my apples again. Unless there is a very bad deer incident in the future, this is the last time I will mention these critters. They're on my......
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8:02 PM Wed, Jul 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
I used to be an annuals snob. I don't know why -- maybe a marigold doesn't pose as much of a challenge as, say, an America rosebush. But the older I get, the fewer challenges I need, so I've......
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8:45 AM Tue, Jul 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
In my previous blog entry, I hinted that spare time these days, for me, is a hard thing to come by. This was the first year since I've lived in Exeter that I haven't pruned my fruit trees. I've probably......
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1:56 PM Mon, Jul 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
As one who changed from a field-type vegetable garden to raised beds, I strongly recommend others do the same. Raised beds have a number of advantages: 1.The plants are higher and easier to reach. 2.Likewise the undesirable plants (weeds) are......
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9:19 AM Sat, Jul 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
My heart sank when I pulled into the driveway after a 4 week absence. The weeds are everywhere. Some flowering plants are so over grown and the sunflower toppled over. Branches of red perennial Hibiscus fell to the ground, blocking......
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2:49 PM Fri, Jul 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
I come to the blog from Exeter where I've lived for 22 years. It's not the garden spot of western Rhode Island, at least not on our side of town. You can drive a shovel into the ground in ten......
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9:43 AM Fri, Jul 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
I’m guilty. I slaughtered two shrubs this week. They were sickly, and they were in the way of the painters, so they had to go. But they were living, carbon-chomping, oxygen producing things, and I snuffed them merely because they......
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2:05 PM Thu, Jul 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
I don't know about you, but whenever we plant 8 cucumber plants, none of them make it very far in the growing cycle without getting eaten by a woodchuck, attacked by some fungus, or just shriveling up. However, whenever we......
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4:49 PM Tue, Jul 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
Click photo to enlarge it. Jackie and Wayne McCarthy of North Kingstown have one of the largest, certainly the tallest, water gardens in the state. Their creation, next to their bed and breakfast, is one of 34 gardens on......
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3:46 PM Tue, Jul 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
Master Gardener Martha MacBurnie has one of the most creative, beautiful landscapes in South County. It was recently featured on the cover of a national home and garden magazine, has been on numerous garden tours over the years and will......
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11:41 AM Tue, Jul 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
I know what my mom’s hydrangeas are doing right now. Looking pathetic. Like she’s been away for a month, withholding vital fluids. The truth is, they’ve had plenty of water. They’re just hot. They’ll perk back up when it cools......
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12:00 PM Sun, Jul 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
Journal photo / Kris Craig Master Gardener Rudi Hempe at a woodchuck hole at URI's East Farm in South Kingstown: In their battle with growers, the woodchucks are winning The blog editor recently posed this question: "Are you just......
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