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Archive for 'Deadheading'

One bed down

Posted: October 26th, 2003 by Lisa

Okay, we got that one bed, the primary one for the spring flowers, put to bed for the year. It turned out to be a huge amount of work, but I’m hoping to not have to repeat it in the spring. We covered it all with a couple of inches of beautiful black compost and

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Posted under Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Deadheading, Marmalade, Mulch, Planting, Princess, Pruning.
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Pretty, Busy fall weekend

Posted: October 25th, 2003 by Lisa

It actually turned out to be quite nice today. Sure, it was windy, which makes it difficult when I am trying to rake leaves, but still, no snow except in the really shady spots like the front porch, no rain, pretty warm, and sunny. Not bad after two days of snow. We got outside pretty

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Posted under Coffee Grounds, Compost, Deadheading, Harvesting, Honey Mushrooms, Mulch, Ornamental Grass, Potatoes, Spreading, Weeding.
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Sticking Snow

Posted: October 23rd, 2003 by Lisa

Well, there’s no getting around it. It stuck. I woke up this morning hoping the snow had turned to rain overnight, and instead I saw two inches on the ground and the snow was still coming. It’s pretty, I admit, but I’m not ready. I need more fall, please. I like fall. To outline the

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Posted under Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Compost, Deadheading, Firewood, Mulch, Planting, Pond scoop, Spreading, Tractor, Weeding, peony.
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Back

Posted: September 15th, 2003 by Lisa

I’ve been out of town for over a week, and I’ve missed my garden so much. As soon as I got home, Princess, Yoda and I went out to see how it was doing without me, and to see what’s in bloom at this point. I was out in Sacramento and San Francisco where it

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Posted under Burning Bush, Deadheading, Gardening, Marmalade, Obedient Plant, Princess, Roses, Sedum, Yoda.
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Taking a break

Posted: August 16th, 2003 by Lisa

Whew, it’s hot out there. I am not, however, complaining. We’ve had so much rain (almost 8 inches so far this month alone) that I haven’t been able to really do much in the garden, so I’ll take hot over hot and raining any day. We went out into the garden pretty early this morning,

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Posted under Building, Chips, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Deadheading, Fish, Grass Clippings, Harvesting, Lily beetles, Milkweed, Pallets, Peppers, Pruning, Reviews, Sawdust, Self, Shredded Paper, Tomatoes, Weeding.
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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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Another Saturday

Posted: July 26th, 2003 by Frank

Lisa’s home, and we got a good Saturday afternoon in the garden. She deadheaded the lambs ear to the annoyance of the local bumble bees who were still chowing down. Needless to say, there were a bunch of other flower stalks ready to go, including our two poppy blossoms. She’s planning to try to start

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Posted under Bumble Bees, Clearing, Deadheading, Japanese beetles.
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Catching up in the flower gardens

Posted: July 14th, 2003 by Lisa

Because we spent the majority of the weekend doing stuff out in the new garden, not much got done in the flower gardens at all. So we went out after work today, really just to do a walk-through because we thought the bugs would be awful, and ended up staying outside for a couple of

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Posted under Blackflies, Deadheading, Deer flies, Hens & Chicks, Japanese beetles, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Princess, Vetch, Weeding, Yoda.
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Drastic Deadheading

Posted: July 12th, 2003 by Lisa

It’s hard to believe that this is my first real deadheading run on the window boxes, but I don’t think the boxes themselves really took off until the cold and rainy June weather stopped. So once hot and sunny July started, we got a couple of weeks of gorgeous growth on the whole set, but

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Posted under Chips, Compost, Deadheading, Grow lights, Shredded Paper, Window Boxes.
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Busy, beautiful Saturday

Posted: June 28th, 2003 by Lisa

We got a lot done today. Frank’s big to-do item was to turn the compost. The far right bin of the old set (right near the house) is our finished stuff, and has collapsed down to less than half a bin. It’s too late to spread that stuff now, so he was hoping that the

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Posted under Boulders, Building, Compost, Deadheading, Gardening, Horsetail, Lawn, Lupine, Pallets, Potatoes, Turning, Weeding, Window Boxes, tulips.
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