24th May - 21st JunMonthly Top Blog Posts on Gardening

21 Jun

Drama in the driveway

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I’d thought there must be a cat prowling through the garden with all the fuss the robins and bluejays were making. I went outside, flip-flop in hand (they’re excellent flung at neighborhood strays) and found that the…

15 Jun

June Blooms day

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A very small post today because a. it’s very hot so that the garden isn’t awash in blooms and b. some pics came out of focus but its too hot for me to go and try to get new shots.I love the deep fushia and green…

10 Jun

Pots

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Usually the plastic pots you get at the garden centre come in black, green or brown. Sometimes you get them in jazzy yellow, pink and blue. What they all have in common is they block out light to the roots of plants.Now…

Pretty Rain Barrels and The USPS that Lose Them

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Rain barrels tend to be ugly, monstrous things that you hide in the back corner of your house or risk the neighbors wondering when you are going to be sharing the moonshine you are distilling. I have seen these beasts…

08 Jun

First Real Harvest - Spinach

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The spinach I planted last fall overwintered and produced a beautiful new crop this spring.From GremlinThe plot is about 4 feet by 2 feet, and the variety of spinach grown is “Melody”. I’m going on my third…

Iris

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Bet you thought I fell off the face of the earth! Actually, my daughter and her husband have bought a new house— so new, in fact, that it isn’t completely finished. Activity levels are at a new high around here…

Princess Haiku aspires to a small chrysanthemum garden

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I am going to try to grow some of the amazing rare flowers, that I have featured in other posts on my blog. The special elder man that gave me these flowers and introduced me to the “Way of the Chrysanthemum” left this…

06 Jun

Soon to be Off for a Well Deserved Magical Adventure

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Tomorrow morning we are cleaning all of the carpet in the house. We rented a carpet cleaner and will pick it up at 7am. While the carpet dries, we are taking off for a little weekend adventure to see Brian Michael, a…

05 Jun

First Class Tomato

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My SIL was in a nearby town during one of her many business trips. We had talked previously about her picking up a cherry tomato plant on one of her visits so I had saved one of the basket tomato cups back ‘just in…

04 Jun

The View From Here

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The view from here is wonderful, as long as my back is to the garden, and my gaze goes across the road, across the far side of the valley.Turn around, and–oh! All sorts of plants in pots,.[[ This is a content s…

03 Jun

Catnip

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Paisley’s lesson today is the art of enjoying catnip! “Oh yes sniff sniff catnip!”Babie watches patiently and learns. Lots of yummy catnip chop chop! “Lip smacking catnip*enlarge this photo to clearly see her smackin…

02 Jun

In My Kitchen Garden

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Eight Tomato Plants (No, Really, they’re in there)Realization of the Day:It’s the second of June and I have a pathetic total of 9 tomato plants in the ground - which is more than double yesterday’s count of four. Most…

Tommy update

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All of my Tommy plants have dry white patches on their leaves due to wind damageWhere has the sun gone?Peas are doing well despite the slugs being out in force. I arrived at the plot yesterday to be greeted by a long…

31 May

wild………about wild flowers

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sheeeeesh. Can’t believe it’s been 12 days since I posted. What HAVE I been doing? Well, I went a’travelin’ to Sumpter, OR over Memorial Day weekend to a friend’s cabin. And what to my wondering eye should…

Chive Blossom Dipping Oil

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Last year I had a ton of chives go to blossom and I felt like I wasted an opportunity. I’d been thinking of making chive vinegar but The Husband was feeling all italian and asked if it was possible to make Chive…

30 May

Mail call

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It was windy and gray and humid and threatening major rain when I came home. But it was clearly meant to be a gardening day. See what came in the mail?I took advantage of what I gather is a recurring offer of Spring…

28 May

Food Growing Get-Together, Looking for a Place

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Those of you reading this who haven’t seen the previous posts, we are planning a food growing bloggers get-together in the UK. I made a second post about it here.A suggestion was made to ask the Oxford Botanical…

MOSAIC URN.This is the latest project that D has started and

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MOSAIC URN.This is the latest project that D has started and it’s going to take some time. The tiles for the black swirls are tiny and he needs hundreds of them.Here is the start of it, with the larger tiles in copper…

Rising Through the Weeds

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I don’t handle change well. I like my routines, every day the same as the one before it. But therein lays stagnation so sometimes I force myself to go outside of my comfort zone, to stretch my wings like a butterfly…

Growing Strawberries

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I really must get these new strawberry plants in the ground. They’re producing berries even though they’re sitting on my patio in the peat pots that I bought them in. I’m not complaining and in fact I’m very happy…

27 May

Make Potpourri from your garden

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Potpourri has always been synonymous with moth balls, smelling salts and basically anything ‘grandmotherly’. You could open any drawer in the guest bedroom and guarantee a small spray of the stuff. And if that wasn’t…

The spice road

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It’s been a long time since I completely started over with my spice rack. I ditched my spices when I moved to Iowa, but already had a spice rack of sorts waiting for me when I got there, so I didn’t have the…

Maiden Hair fern,sedum,heuchera

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We have been getting weather that plants love. Hot for a few days and then a major downpour. I have only had to water my garden once this year. Everything keeps doubling in size in a matter of days!

Captures

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I’m pleased with the way my pots with the coleus, petunias and lobelia are taking off. No signs of critter munching yet. We have noticed a lot of caterpillars around the yard (they fall on us too!) I got that little…

Little marvels, and the not-so-marvelous

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Little Marvel peas forming on the vineThe pea pods are beginning to swell with their precious pearl-shaped orbs inside. I don’t have many pea plants this year — only about 7 or 8 plants grew from an older packet of…

Potatoes in a Garbage Can?

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I really enjoy trying new things in the garden. It makes my friends and neighbors consider my vegetable garden as “weird”. For me though, the weirder the better. People think its odd that I grow white and black…

"Good Enough" Gardening

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Doublefile viburnum.It was a great weekend. The weather finally warmed up, and we spent most of the weekend outside. Saturday we gardened, Sunday we went to my mother-in-law’s Memorial Day barbecue (where I also kicked…

Captivating Bluebirds - A Book Review

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.Henry David Thoreau ~ 1852Romie and I saw our first bluebird last spring. We were working in the garden, near an ornamental birdhouse, and I saw a flash of brilliant blue out of…

Fox Attack & Ruffled Feathers

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When you first get chickens everybody tells you that the fox will get them. We've had ours for a couple of years now  without any bother from predators (except a visiting dog that killed five). For quite a while we…

Making More Mint

www.yougrowgirl.com19 commentsSocialRank

Mint has got to be one of the easiest plants to grow. Just plop it into some reasonably rich soil in a reasonably sunny spot and watch it take over. Evidence of its opportunistic habit probably lives in your garden…

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