Archive for 'tulips'
Posted: June 18th, 2007 by
Lisa
I am slowly moving my way through a couple of my flower beds, but it is really slow going after two years of neglect. It is so easy to get so overwhelmed that I just want to quit and start over. I’m trying to stay focused, trying to enjoy it rather than seeing it as
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Posted under Bindweed, Farm Life, Lilac, Lily beetles, Mulch, Ragweed, Vetch, tulips.
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Posted: May 1st, 2007 by
Lisa
That’s my girl, giving me my first two ewe lambs of the season. Perfect! My favorite and most tame sheep gives me girls, yay! She’ll show them the ropes, and keeping them tame won’t be hard at all. Way to go, Minxy! She had them both cleaned off and claimed, great for a first
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Posted under Chickens, Farm Life, Hatching, Honey Bees, Lambs, Trailer, Weeding, mega-catch, tulips.
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Posted: March 27th, 2004 by
Frank
Lisa spent the week in LA and took the red-eye home last night. While I was waiting for her, I scooped as much crud as I could out of the pond, and turned the pump back on. We lost all our fish for the second year in a row. We told the landscaper we wanted
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Posted under Algae, Daisy, Fish, Foxglove, Hollyhocks, Lamb's Ear, Lavender, Pond, Poppies, Tractor, daffodils, tulips.
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Posted: October 8th, 2003 by
Lisa
We finally got out there to pull the glads and the dahlias. We’ve had four or five hard frosts already this year. (Isn’t this early for that? It feels very early.) So we went out after work tonight and ended up working a bit in the dark, but that’s okay. The glads are really reproducing
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Posted under Compost, Gladiola, Mulch, Planting, Poppies, Princess, Yoda, daffodils, dahlia, tulips.
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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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Posted: June 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
The heat wave continues here. It got as high as the mid-90s again, which just saps my energy and keeps me from wanting to do much outside at all. The string algae in the pond suddenly appeared today, from all of the hot weather, I guess. Frank fished most of it out with the net.
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Posted under Algae, Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Columbine, Fish, Foxglove, Lupine, Madame Hardy, Pond, Sunny, tulips.
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Posted: June 9th, 2003 by
Lisa
It’s amazing what a couple of hours after work can do out in the garden. I was just going to do a little deadheading on the tulip bed, and before you know it, we got quite a few things off the to-do list. I did get the tulips all cut off, and Frank spread bonemeal
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Posted under Bleeding Heart, Deadheading, Iris, Mice, astilbe, daffodils, tulips.
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Posted: May 18th, 2003 by
Frank
Lisa had to take the train down to DC today, but the train has been rescheduled to leave at three, so we were able to get in little more gardening before she left. While we were up in Claremont to get the fish on Friday, we stopped in at Wal-mart to pick up some potting
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Posted under Catnip, Cosmos, Lavender, Peppers, Planting, Tomatoes, daffodils, tulips.
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Posted: May 17th, 2003 by
Lisa
Of course, it didn’t freeze last night. Our weather station says it went down to 37, so everything probably would have been okay even without all the covering up I did. But since there’s another frost warning tonight, it makes sense to just leave them all right where they are and covered them up just
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Posted under Coneflowers, Cosmos, Day, Delphinium, Fish, Horsetail, Lily, Mulch, Plant Swap, Pond, Weeding, primrose, tulips, water lily.
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Posted: April 19th, 2003 by
Lisa
It’s Saturday, it’s warm, I’ve been gone all week, and I couldn’t wait to get out there in the garden and get going. I started this year with my least favorite bed. I figure if I start the spring clean up here, or perhaps I’ll keep it under control and stop avoiding it so much.
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Posted under Bindweed, Compost, Gardening, Mice, Mulch, Mums, Sawmill, Splitting, Weeding, Weeds, Zebra Grass, daffodils, deck, heather, tulips.
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