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Tag Archives: gardening
Rain Garden: Just Say “No” to Watering
I like to conserve resources, like… effort. Take the rain garden I recently finished building. Sure, I shoveled and wheelbarrowed a dump truck’s worth of soil, and hand-built a thirty foot long retaining wall. But, once I get the flowers … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Local, Native plants, Recycling, Water
Tagged berm, bumble bee, butterfly, Danaus plexippus, flowers, gardening, Jerusalem artichoke, Monarch, rain, rain garden, retaining wall, stone wall, Sunchoke, swale, water
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You Say Tomato
It is the end of the July and my tomato plants are in full gear. I have had some issues with soil drainage causing some tomatoes to crack, but I think overall they are doing well. I have been sampling … Continue reading
Posted in Fruits, Gardening, Organic Food, Vegetables
Tagged Black from Tula, Brandywine tomatoes, gardening, grilled cheese and tomato, grow your own, harvest, heirloom tomato, home garden, homegrown, juicy tomato, Maryland, meaty tomato, Mid-Atlantic, organic gardening, roasted tomatoes, slicing tomato, summer fruits, Summer garden, summer vegetables, Sun Gold, tomato and basil, tomatoes
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Testing the Soil
This is my first year with a rather large garden all to myself. I went from 6 pots to a 4×12 plot in a community garden. I was trying to go all organic from soil to plant, but the soil … Continue reading
Posted in Fruits, Gardening, Local, Native plants, Organic Food, Vegetables
Tagged accomplishment, Black from Tula, Brandywine tomatoes, community garden, critters, eggplant, gardening, green beans, harvest, herbs, home garden, jade cucumbers, jalapeno, kale, Mid-Atlantic, mulch, mustard greens, okra, organic growing, organic methods, pea plants, pesticide, pests, Romaine, rouge zucchini, seeds, spinach, Sun Gold, sweet peppers, tilling, weeding, zucchini patch
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Mulch and Faith
My beebalm (Monarda didyma) and anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) plants showed their first flowers of the season about two weeks ago. For the beebalm (also known as oswego tea), it is its first flower ever, so I’ve talked about it … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Local, Native plants, Natural Health
Tagged Acer negundo, Aesculus pavia, Agastache foeniculum, anise hyssop, Asimina triloba, bee balm, beebalm, berries, berry, bird, black haw, blackhaw, blossom, box elder, boxelder, bumblebee, Cercis canadensis, Eastern plants, faith, flower, garden, gardening, hummingbird, local garden, magnolia, Monarda didyma, mulch, native plant, native species, nature, North American plants, Oswego tea, paw paw, pawpaw, plants, plum, Prunus Americana, red buckeye, redbud, slug, tree, viburnum, Viburnum prunifolium
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