Archive for 'Window Boxes'
Posted: May 8th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with
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Posted under Bjarki, Blackflies, Chickens, Death, Ewes, Farm Life, First Date Out, Horse Housing, Lambs, Llama, Mosquitos, Sawmill, Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, mega-catch.
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Posted: April 11th, 2007 by
Lisa
I’m a bit tired of this prolonged winter. The snow was almost gone when we got this recent coldsnap and accompanying snow. The puppy loves it, of course, and I should be used to it, but we have so much to do that needs good weather that I’m getting frustrated. My to-do list just
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Farm Life, Garden Shed, Gardenporn, Greenhouse, Hatching, Horses, Reviews, Sheep, Sheep Sheds, Snow, Window Boxes, Yoda.
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Posted: March 20th, 2007 by
Lisa
There was a shipping problem with my order of plugs from the Jollies. Just because last year I’d had them delivered to where I was in exile, they shipped them there again. The poor dears spent four days in unheated warehouses before finally being delivered to me today. There was only a bit of damage,
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Dogs, Ewes, Farm Life, Wind, Window Boxes, melampodium.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2004 by
Lisa
I can’t believe how many window boxes I got up and running. Most years, I can do twelve of them on a good day. It usually takes me a few hours, I do them four at a time, and after three rounds of four, I’m wiped out and ready to do something else. They are
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Posted: March 12th, 2004 by
Lisa
I’ve been planting yet more seeds — I started some marigolds for my window boxes, some cilantro for my kitchen, and I’m trying my hand at melampodium, notoriously hard to grow from seeds, but I can never find it in the nurseries around here and I love it. I also transplanted out my pansies, moving
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Posted under Grow lights, Seed Starting, Window Boxes, cilantro, marigolds, pansy.
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Posted: February 1st, 2004 by
Lisa
I think this is the official start to the 2004 Gardening Season. The only way to indulge my gardening obsession while living in Zone 4 is to start my plants from seed, under lights. I started four flats of pansies today. Well, to be perfectly accurate, three of pansies, one of violas. After much
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Posted under Gardenporn, Lantana, Seed Starting, Viola, Window Boxes, pansy.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2003 by
Lisa
It’s stress relief to get out in the garden, even if just for an hour, after work in the evenings. This year has been so wet, though, that mostly tonight we got out there because the lawn was long enough to cut as hay, and it was finally dry enough to mow. All of the fall flowers are in full bloom right now, and looking quite lovely. I need more of them, though. I’m mostly green, with a few splashes of pinks and yellows here and there. Oh, and some purples as well, with the asters and obedient plants. We haven’t had a freeze yet this year, so the window boxes are still in fine form as well. The leaves on the trees are getting more and more color. I think we’re still two weeks from peak color, though.
Posted under Asters, Lawn, Obedient Plant, Sedum, Window Boxes.
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Posted: September 20th, 2003 by
Lisa
We’re finally home on the weekend again, and worked ourselves until we were exhausted outside today. Marmalade kept us company no matter where we went outside. It was very cute. The first thing we did was get started again on the firewood. We heat with wood on the first floor of our house, and in
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Posted under Blewitt, Chips, Elm Oyster, Hypsizygus ulmarius, Firewood, Harvesting, Marmalade, Mulch, Mushrooms, Reviews, Sawdust, Stacking, Window Boxes, deck, stropharia.
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Posted: August 31st, 2003 by
Lisa
We spent all of today working on getting that downed tree out of the driveway, and it hasn’t been a good day for equipment, making it all more difficult. Frank’s Stihl chainsaw was broken yesterday by having the tree fall on it, and he bought a spare at Home Depot last night, but he really
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Posted under Chainsaw, Chipper, Design Ideas, Firewood, Japanese beetles, Lawn tractor, Lily beetles, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, Wine, gazebo.
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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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