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Some Clarification and Whats Growing this Week
Good Morning Everyone!! It’s a perfect day in Salem! I want to clarify my statement in yesterday’s post about peonies taking time and patience to grow. It’s not that peonies are a high need plant,...
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A Big Pot of Potatoes!
I tried to plant potatoes in a raised bed a few years ago with no success at all. My memory of the failure is that we thought that raccoons might have dug them up. We found the seed potatoes...
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Sweet Peas, Veggies and Herbs!
First of all, thank you, thank you for all of your wonderful suggestions yesterday about what to do with the Green Monster! I’m newly energized and I’m working hard on pulling that area together. I...
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What’s Happening in the Garden
It’s always fun to return after a good amount of time away from the garden to see the changes. Here’s what we came home to this week after our twelve day road trip. Our pot of potatoes took off! The …...
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Zucchini Rotini
The zucchini is growing faster than we can eat it all ready. Here’s a quick and simple dish that I made for dinner on Sunday. It was delicious!! The Rotel tomatoes made it quite zippy. My family likes...
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What’s Happening In the Garden- July 28
We’ve had pretty unsettled weather here this week. Lots of thunderstorm warnings and showers. We did have drought early in the spring but from my perspective our summer has been pretty typical. Plenty...
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What’s Happening in the Garden — August 24
I’m a bit behind on my “What’s Happening” update. Packing and going to camp in New Hampshire took lots and lots of time. We didn’t exactly rough it (other than sleeping in tents) on this camping trip....
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What’s Happening in the Garden-September 8
Good Morning! We’ve made it through the first three days of school here. That always feels like a huge accomplishment to me. All of my kids seem to be happy and settling in well in all of their new...
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Cucumberly Neighbors
My very sad excuse for a cucumber this year… holy moly what happened here? The very lovely cucumbers that our dear neighbor Becky sent over… these are real cucs! What my youngest daughter did with one...
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What’s Happening in the Garden, July 30, 2014
I truly can’t believe that it’s been almost a month since I posted a garden update. Where does the time go? We’ve been doing everything… camping, hiking, visiting, working, gardening… you name it!...
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What’s Happening in the Garden- May 31, 2015
Hello from finally rainy Salem, Massachusetts! I haven’t posted in quite a while. There’s been so much going on here; sick children, graduating children, coming home from college children, going to...
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About those Onion Seedlings…. and… Spring is Springing!
Here’s my first tiny little dose of spring for you… It’s really going to happen! I believe that this particular crocus is always the first one every year. It’s in the exact same spot of my front yard,...
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