Tag: garden
group name: gardening
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January 08, 2009 04:31 PM EST --
I sure wish I had an orange tree in the back yard, but the next best thing is the best and sweetest Florida oranges from Publix.
For the past couple of weeks, my family has . . .
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June 13, 2009 06:01 PM EDT --
The beautiful bright-red Royal Poinciana trees are blooming all over Florida these days, and I am so in love.
I dream of the day when my husband and I can afford . . .
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May 05, 2009 08:06 PM EDT --
This afternoon the boys and I needed to cool down in the backyard, once the shade began covering it and the breeze kept it cool. Our walk home from school was very hot in 89 degrees sunshine, and although . . .
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April 08, 2008 11:14 PM EDT --
Accompanied by both our kitties I took a walk in our garden today.
First, let me introduce you to Mini-Kitty Fluffball.
She acted particularly frisky today, chasing the lizards in . . .
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March 31, 2008 01:13 PM EDT --
My favorite plant and flower festival is a fun event with music and food and crafts and antiques and exhibitions, held every year on Earth Day.
We usually make a day of it, since there are . . .
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February 20, 2009 12:28 PM EST --
This is not the first year I have grown my own potatoes . But it is the first year I grew such a large variety of them. I mean, I don't even know how many varieties, I grew. Here are some:
Red . . .
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April 22, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
The E-box--How to make one for your deck!
Last year someone told me about an E-box that she had ordered and grew amazing veggies with just three of them. She paid somewhere between $40-$50 for them. . . .
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March 20, 2009 08:00 AM EDT --
Companion Planting Companion planting is an excellent, all natural way to help control pests and problems in your garden. When it’s used in vegetable gardens, companion planting can also help enhance . . .
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March 20, 2009 06:02 PM EDT --
Well, I meant to get to this post a week ago...but things just got out of hand this week. And now that Michelle Obama has announced her spectacular vegetable garden , I feel as though I have to rise . . .
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March 01, 2008 08:24 AM EST --
Instead of growing our daffodils and other spring-flowering bulbs formally—in beds and borders—we naturalize them.
This reduces care to almost nothing. What a pleasure just to plant, knowing . . .
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May 21, 2008 12:42 AM EDT --
The first thing you need to do is learn a little bit about flowers in general. You need to learn the difference between annuals and perennials, for example. Annuals need to be replanted every year, but . . .
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September 05, 2008 05:30 PM EDT --
Summerpics from the Fort Worth Botanical G ardens
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April 15, 2008 10:37 PM EDT --
Gardening is a great activity for the entire family to get involved in. Kids love to plant seed and watch them grow. They also love to eat what they raise.
Square foot gardening - no weeding, no digging, . . .
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July 11, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
Come sit with me for a bit in my garden. I'm getting lonely spending my free time in the kitchen processing all my fruits that are coming ripe now.
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April 26, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
I'm so tired
My back is killin' me
I've used the fingernail brush four times today
I'm havin' to wash my feet before I get into bed
The quack grass has taken over the raspberries . . .
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June 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
When you’re ready to start planting a garden of any kind, the first thing you’ll need to do is actually plan where things will be planted in your yard. By planning your garden first, you’ll . . .
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September 08, 2006 10:19 PM EDT --
(Seven photos, for those with dial-up...)
It had been several years since I wandered through the exquisite Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary along Theodore Wirth Parkway in the heart . . .
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February 21, 2009 05:48 PM EST --
I am so excited that my neighbor Elisabeth Thibodeau (Liz) and I are going to yardshare this year! I have a big veggie garden area, a greenhouse, 4 old growth grapes, a bunch of raspberries, 4 blueberry . . .
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July 26, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
Amazing how much our garden has grown in just under 2 months time.
This is June 2, 2008. We planted the garden May 4. so this is a little under a month since planting. It was . . .
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March 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT --
Last Thursday I planted my seeds for some of my vegetable garden and a few flower seeds. We've got one good window in the house that gets really good light. So that's where my small . . .
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