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Posted by admin to Dirt, Waldeath, Winter, animals, books, chores, food, girlgonegardening, houseplants, roses, seeds, spring, summer, tools on 2008-03-06, 08:29:00

28*, feels like 19*, 73% humidity, WNW 10 mph wind, cloudy, FLOOD WARNING It was a difficult morning to wake up today. I slept a sound 8 hours, which is more then the norm for me. 6 hours in the winter, and 4-5 hours in the summer is my sleeping schedule. I was tempted to just stay in bed instead of getting myself motivated for the day. After all, I had things to do like feed the animals, water

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Posted by admin to Dirt, LOVE, Mr. Hyper, Sasha, animals, daylily, ferns, ghetto, grass, herbs, holidays, houseplants, pets, snow, weather, weekend, work, yellow on 2008-03-04, 07:02:00

28*, feels like 18*, 63% humidity, NE 12 mph wind, cloudy, FLOOD WARNING The thousand dollar dog is in big trouble. Mr. Hyper blamed the cats on getting into my ghetto grow light stand, knocking it down, eating my ferns, unpotting them, and eating most of the catnip plants soil and all. But I knew better. I was angry. I had been babying these plants, tenderly administering my love to them. I had

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Posted by admin to California, Dirt, Flowers, Grow-A-Long Fun, Mr. Hyper, animals, birds, books, crafts, garden, hiking, leaves, rocks, seeds, snow, spring, veggies, weather, weekend on 2008-03-02, 06:14:00

37*, feels like 30*, 67% humidity, SE 9 mph wind, fair It's supposed to be 53* today later. I plan to take advantage of this nice weather, you can beet on it! I was thinking I should go to the heron rookery, to check out the nests today, as March is the best time to view the nest repairs without the confusion of leaves in the way. But Mr. Hyper, after seeing the pictures of the fun I had last

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Posted by admin to Dirt, fruit, herbs, hostas, photos, roses, seeds on 2008-01-12, 10:26:00

These are "Very Berry" wintergreen seeds..... I planted them in a peaty seed starting mix, threw them into a plastic baggie and put them into the fridge with the rose seeds already there. I also planted hosta "New American Hybrids" mix into peat pellets in a cool window sill.

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Posted by admin to Dirt, daylily, holidays, links, seeds on 2007-12-31, 18:33:00

May tomorrow find you with no hangover and 5 lbs. lighter! Have a healthy and happy new year everyone :). David in Greensboro, NC said... Hi Nickie,I don't know the first thing about harvesting and growing stuff from seed...I collected some daylily seeds last fall and have them here on my desk...What do I need to do with them before I stick them in some dirt? Any other advice would be much

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Posted by admin to Dirt, girlgonegardening, links, roses, seeds, trees on 2007-12-26, 08:26:00

35*, 78% humidity, calm wind, fair (Dang, It's a nice day!) It wasn't long ago at all that I was wondering if my hellebore seeds would take 3 years to sprout.... http://girlgonegardening.blogspot.com/2007/12/seeds.html Well, they don't. Nope. I looked this very morning, and low and behold, not 1, but 2! seeds have sprouted on me. WOHOO!!!! I am so proud of myself. I guess soaking them first in

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Posted by admin to Dirt, Freya, bug-eatting plants, bugs, cheapskate finds, houseplants, photos, veggies on 2007-12-15, 07:58:00

I've been drawing flies. Now before I get any "maybe you should shower more often comments", they are not THOSE kind of flies. These are those annoying little flies that flit about the soil of houseplants, so I came up with a possible solution (and an excuse to harbor more plants....) How about a bug eating plant? This one was practically FREE. I didn't know it was on clearance when I picked it

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Posted by admin to Dirt, Flowers, animals, barefoot, birds, bugs, composting, fruit, garden, holidays, neighborhood, rabbits, rocks, roses, seeds, snow, trees, veggies, white, wildflowers on 2007-12-09, 12:17:00

Some of y'all may have seen these lists bumping around in the blogger world and so I too will list what makes me happy (or just 8 of them as it takes very little to make ol' girl gone gardening happy). Here they are in no particular order: 1) Starting plants from seed. Sure, sometimes there is some cursing involved like "Oh crap-noodles! MOLD!" but overall it is an engaging and fun experience.

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Posted by admin to Dirt, Frost,, Winter, fruit, leaves, trees on 2007-11-23, 17:33:00

25*, feels like 19*, 69% humidity, SSW 5 mph wind, fair As you can tell from the temperature right now, I think winter is here! This morning dirt in the garden had that frost heave thing going on where the dirt is raised in bumps from freezing water in the ground. It's kind of cool looking actually. Most leaves are gone off the trees though the blueberries still cling stubbornly to a few bright

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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