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Posted by admin to Bob Cantisano, California, Farming, Reaps, Rewards, San Juan, United States, organic on 2007-11-14, 21:00:00
I was chatting with my friend Amigo recently. Yes, that sounds redundant, but it's the name he goes by: Amigo Bob Cantisano. Considered by many to be the best organic farming adviser in the United States, he was giving me an eye-opening look at his line of work. For more than 30 years, he has helped growers make the transition from chemical to organic practices. (His Web site is at http://www.askamigo.com.)
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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-14, 12:55:34
Fall garden cleanup can be a rather sad time for many gardeners. Yet for others, it signals a time of gardening preparation in anticipation of the growing season next year!
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Posted by admin to Dirt, Frost,, Winter, composting, expiriments, food, garden, leaves, mulch, neighborhood, photos, snow, spring, veggies, weather, weeds on 2007-11-14, 12:49:00
54*, 34% humidity, W 15 mph wind, cloudy
With the rest of the week predicting freezing weather and possible snow, I KNEW my time has run out for puttering around in the garden. It was all business this morning for me. I got up first thing and drove around the neighborhood to leaf piles and loading up on them. I didn't have to go far before I hit the mother load of maple leaves. I brought them
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Posted by admin to Flowers, photos, roses, seeds on 2007-11-14, 12:39:00
They may not be the prettiest flowers ever, but I am shocked and amazed that I still have Flowers at all in the middle of November.
Lady Bird Johnson rose (The one that you can never photograph the color)
Blurry but this is a cardinal lobelia.
A self seeded sweet alyssum.
Cyclamen.
This sunflower has seen better days, but it's flower has lasted over a couple weeks!
Calendulas.
Pansy---the
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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-14, 09:23:21
If you own Tampa real estate or live anywhere in Florida for that matter, you'll need to own about chinch bugs or they will destroy your lawn within a year. It has happened to me.
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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-14, 09:09:29
Bonsai is a Japanese word that came from the Chinese words "pun sai", which means 'tree in a pot'. It can also be a shrub or a vine and not just trees. The growing of a bonsai was a Chinese practice that was brought to Japan some 5 centuries ago where it was transformed as an art form.
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Posted by admin to Helenium, catalogues, crocus, new house on 2007-11-14, 08:39:00
Am on a day off today after two long days at work. My move date has been postponed by a week due to the estate agents retraining!!
I will have to wait a week more to get my garden! The weeds will be thinking they have survived another year!
I love projects, and the winter one will be to renovate the back garden to its past glory. It showed signs of being cultivated once.
I got a brochure today from Crocus, with some beautiful Tulips and daffodils for sale. Spring bulbs.
I will need to buy some and plant them in a large bowl untill I can get them into some soil.
My window daffodil bulb from cheltenham is showing signs of growth now.
More time to plan the winter garden, and collect boxes for moving day. My plants will all need boxes to travel in to new windowsills.
I saw a lovely half moon three layer shelf today ( called an Etagere) in the crocus book. I will keep writing seed lists from all my flower catalogues that I have accumulated.
A week more of garden dreams...
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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-14, 08:01:46
Many people say they talk to their plants and give them love and good cheer. These people swear that their plants grow better and like them, they just have an intuition about it all. Well, now scientists have discovered that plants like certain types of harmonic resonance, it helps them grow better. Yes, they like some types of music, but most people already suspected that anyway, so the scientists, well they are a little late on their discovery once again.
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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-14, 07:34:00
The wild gingers are pretty inconspicuous in our garden until late fall, when Winter has begun some serious winnowing... then one day you suddenly realize that these are pretty cool little plants. This is Asarum minor Dixie Darling, from Plant Delights Nursery. I actually should change its label to the now recognized genus hexastylis, where the evergreen gingers have all been placed, but on my list of things to do it's so far down that I'll still be talking about it when Halley's Comet makes its next appearance. Under whatever name, it is indeed a lovely little woodlander for dry shade. Its new leaves in spring are green with silver webbing; in late fall it starts getting hints of pink, deepening to burgundy, then to maroon during the winter. Its flowers in spring are reddish purple with white spots. Asarum (Hexastylis) minor is native to the mid-Atlantic states, west into Tennessee and Kentucky, where it is sometimes called 'Little Heartleaf'.
I look forward to having large patches of evergreen gingers, but in this climate they are quite slow-growing, and the comet might be here before that occurs, too.
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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-14, 03:37:38
via Garden Voices
reBlogged
to whimsy
on Dec 31, 1969, 6:59PM
Originally Posted by Old Roses
