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Six on Saturday: July 4th 2020
Happy July 4th! It’s a glorious day here in Indiana! Hard to limit to six for this Saturday, because the daylilies are opening everywhere, the potager’s plants are becoming loaded with produce, and everywhere I look there is color and … Continue reading
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Tagged cipollini, gardening, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, kitchen gardens, melons, peppers, potager, Six on Saturday, sunflowers
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June 2020: Monthly review
2020 will be a memorable year simply because of Covid, but I’m beginning to think it will also be one that I’ll recall as one of the prettiest. Last year we had such a wet, wet spring that most field … Continue reading
And suddenly it’s JULY!
Outdoors, it definitely FEELS like July, or maybe even the hot, hot days of August! The melons, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers are springing into action with pounds of fruit setting on and vines climbing to the moon. But it’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dames Rocket, France, gardening, hollyhocks, Indiana gardening, lavender, potager, triple daylily
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Today’s changes
Just knew it was too good to last! The nice shower we got over the weekend was apparently enough to soften the soil so the Japanese beetles could emerge, and out they came. I saw this one on a rose … Continue reading
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Tagged blackberries, gardening, growing roses, Indiana gardening, Indiana weather, Japanese beetles, potager, Roses
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Six on Saturday: June 27, 2020
For this Six on Saturday, we’re focusing on the food! It’s nearly the end of June, but the potager seems more like Mid-May in some ways. The crops are lagging behind “normal.” In checking past journals, “normally” by now I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, growing vegetables, Indiana gardening, kitchen garden, melons, potager, Six on Saturday, spinach in summer
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To Bean, or not to Bean….
I’d been looking at the fava beans, or broad beans, for several days, feeling the pods and wondering if I should pick them. But, since I was already dealing with peas, strawberries, beets, elderblow and broccoli I dillydallied and procrastinated. … Continue reading
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Tagged broad beans, fava beans, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, kitchen garden, potager
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Summer arrives…
Summer sneaked up on me this year. Of course, with temps in the 90’s it felt as if it were here before the actual day arrived, but it didn’t really register in my mind. Unnoticed, there was no celebration of … Continue reading
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Tagged edible flowers, gardening, herbs with flowers, hollyhocks, Indiana gardening, mixed borders, potager
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Six on Saturday: June 20
Despite the many negatives of the “isolation period” the positive is that for the first time ever, I am here to see each and every “first bloom” of the season! Usually I’m traveling, attending conferences, speaking at symposiums, going on … Continue reading
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Tagged blue alliums, flower gardens, gardening, Indiana gardening, perennials, rudbeckia, Six on Saturday, sunflowers
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Mysteries in the Garden
This morning, after reading several blogs by new gardeners, I took a meander around my own potager, and thought “Yes, I can see why they are confused and uncertain.” A new gardener who plants a packet of “Green Arrow” peas, … Continue reading
Six on Saturday: June 13
Just as these are strange times, these are a strange selection of “Six on Saturday” photos. Not related, but as I ventured around the gardens on this second Saturday in June these are the things that stood out as crossing … Continue reading
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Tagged daylily, elder, gardening, Indiana gardening, penstemon, Six on Saturday
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