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Archive for 'Lasagna Layering'

Bulbs and Brush

Posted: October 24th, 2004 by Lisa

We finally attacked the bed where I want all of the new bulbs to go. I was dreading it, but it wasn’t that bad. We pulled all of the glads and dahlias, and I’m amazed at how great that soil is. This is the new bed I did this spring, with the lasagna method and

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Posted under Bindweed, Brambles, Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Clearing, Forsythia, Gardening, Gladiola, Lasagna Layering, Mulch, Pasture, Reviews, Sheep, Soil, Stone walls, Tractor, Weeding, Weeds, Worms, dahlia.
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Ambitious New Bed

Posted: April 18th, 2004 by Lisa

Frank still thinks I’m nuts, but I worked my tail off today putting in that new bed where the lilacs I planted aren’t going to make it. I think it is probably twenty feet long, and it entailed much digging up of sod and dirt, hauling of much crap, and generally hard, physical labor. I

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Posted under Chips, Coffee Grounds, Grass Clippings, Honey Bees, Lasagna Layering, Lilac, Mulch, Pallets, Raised Beds, Shredded Paper, Stone walls, Weed Whacker, Weeding, Weeds, Wishlist.
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Working in the Rain

Posted: October 4th, 2003 by Lisa

It rained all day today. It was more than a drizzle, but it wasn’t that cold, and because we have so many things to do, we worked out in it anyway. Frank dealt with it far better than I did, because I got whiny and cold and complained a lot, and he seemed to have

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Posted under Bulb Hound, Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Garlic, Harvesting, Lasagna Layering, Mice, Potatoes, Reviews.
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And so starts August

Posted: August 2nd, 2003 by Lisa

We’ve had pretty heavy rains all week this week, and the flowers in bloom in the garden are really starting to show the strain of all the water weight. The Shasta daisies in particular have mostly flopped over and started to rot, turning into a most unattractive slime heap. Ick. So I went out and

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Posted under Bindweed, Coneflowers, Crazy Daisy, Deadheading, Delphinium, Frogs, Gardening, Harvesting, Hollyhocks, Lasagna Layering, Lily beetles, Planting, Potatoes, Rain, Reviews, Soil, Star Gazer, Tiger, Weed Whacker, hydrangea.
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A Picture-free Entry

Posted: July 8th, 2003 by Frank

Lisa’s out of town, and the weather continues hot but no longer totally oppressive. I watered the potatoes and mushrooms, then finished replacing the zone 7 sprinklers with dripperline. I got about 50 feet up on the upper center bed as well, but it needs another run. I was getting hungry so I quit at

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Posted under Irrigation, Lasagna Layering, Mushrooms, Onions, Peppers, Potatoes, Reviews, Tomatoes, Watering, Window Boxes.
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Building Mushroom Beds

Posted: June 29th, 2003 by Lisa

We got out in the garden nice and early today, and really got a lot done. Frank ordered some mushroom spawn from Fungi Perfecti. Of the three kinds he ordered, two are back-ordered, but we got the Blewitt, so wanted to get the bed built for it. So first, we hauled the logs that we’d

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Posted under Back Hoe, Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Lasagna Layering, Lawn tractor, Mushrooms, Raised Beds, Tractor, stropharia.
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The Forgotten Bed

Posted: June 21st, 2003 by Lisa

The weather’s been nice enough in the evenings lately that we are spending time sitting out in the gazebo with a glass of wine. One of the things I noticed last night was that I haven’t touched my forgotten bed, the one directly behind the gazebo. It can stay forgotten for much of the year

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Posted under Burdock, Coffee Grounds, Deadheading, False Indigo, Gardening, Gladiola, Irrigation, Lasagna Layering, Planting, Pruning, Raised Beds, Stinging Nettles, Weeding, dahlia, gazebo.
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After work work

Posted: June 16th, 2003 by Lisa

It’s so pretty today that we really can’t stay inside for long. We went outside for a bit of fiddling at lunch today, and again right after work as well. The sun is out, the air is warm, and it’s like Summer magically happened overnight. The butterflies are out in full force, too. All sorts

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Posted under Butterflies, Clematis, Columbine, Deadheading, Fish, Lasagna Layering, Lupine, Potatoes, Weeding, gazebo.
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Spreading more compost

Posted: September 16th, 2002 by Lisa

We got outside in the garden after work today, mostly because it was beautiful weather and puttering out there gives us an excuse to get out there. I messed around on the trampoline as well, which was fun. But mostly, we spread compost. In particular, we are moving back toward that area where we cut

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Posted under Bindweed, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Lasagna Layering, dahlia.
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The Frog Bar

Posted: September 14th, 2002 by Lisa

We need to name our pond something like Heron’s Hang-out or Marlow’s Frog Bar or something. We’re down to three fish left, from the eight we started the year with. Poor things. The frogs seem to be hanging in there, but several times I’ve found wading birds of different flavors in the edges of the

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Posted under Burning Bush, Cats, Fish, Frogs, Lasagna Layering, Lawn, Mushrooms, Pond, Princess, Pumpkin, Roses, Sedum, Soil, Wild birds.
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