Archive for 'Pruning'
Posted: March 19th, 2005 by
Frank
I pruned the ornamental crabs and gave the branches to the sheep. They nibbled a little, but weren’t really interested. Checked the hives. Mine buzzed audibly and I saw one flying bee. No sound from Lisa’s. Many dead bees in the feeder, none moving. Took the feeder off to bring in and clean. Saw a
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Posted under Crab Apple, Honey Bees, Pruning, Sheep, Trees, Wild birds.
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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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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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Posted: August 14th, 2003 by
Lisa
We went to the grand opening of a Home Depot in Keene last night. Their nursery isn’t great, but we did get some good deals. We were a bit disappointed in how many zone six and seven plants we saw. Keene might be zone 5, but most of the hill towns around Keene are
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Posted under Batik, Bearded, Compost, Gardening, Iris, Lawn, Night Owl, Orange Parade, Planting, Pruning, Rain, Sarah Bernhardt, Soil, Sunny, Worms, peony.
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Posted: July 15th, 2003 by
Lisa
I tried to introduce the cats to the catnip plant that I planted earlier this year. I caught Yoda chewing on my clematis earlier in the evening, and I hate to scold him because he’s such a scaredy cat and I don’t want to scare him, but c’mon. Not on my clematis! None of them
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Posted under Design Ideas, Gardening, Marmalade, Pathways, Planting, Pruning, Red-twig Dogwood, Yoda, gazebo.
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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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Posted: June 1st, 2003 by
Lisa
Gah, more rain today. But we knew it was coming, so we got out there early in the morning to finish up stuff that really had to get done. It’s getting very late to plant dahlias and glads, and I’m glad they are all in now. I wasn’t sure where to put them. The spot
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Posted under Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Gardening, Gladiola, Planting, Pruning, Rain, Soil, dahlia.
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Posted: April 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
I started outside this morning wanting to finish the bed directly in front of the front door. Though I’d done the majority of that bed, for some reason I stopped short of the most visible part, which was dumb, but I started there today, and what a huge difference it made! First off, I tackled
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Posted under Chives, Fish, Flowers, Gardening, Gladiola, Grow lights, Irrigation, Newts, Planting, Pond, Pruning, Shady garden, Soil, Splitting, Weeding.
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Posted: July 28th, 2002 by
Lisa
I’m just not safe out in the garden these days, at least not if we have someplace that we need to be by some certain time. Even if I’m dressed and ready to go on time, there’s always just one little thing I want to do, like dead head a plant or something. The next thing you know, my hands are dirty, I’m digging something up, and my previously fine outfit to go out in is smudged and I need to do a quick change. That’s what happened out there today. I was thinking if I dead-headed the pinks, I might be able to get a new flush of blooms this year, so I took the pruners out while waiting for Frank to finish up something he was doing before we left. Lesson learned: don’t garden in a white shirt!
Posted under Deadheading, Pruning.
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