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Posted by admin to Mr. Hyper, animals, backpacking, family, friends, girlgonegardening, grass, green, hiking, spring, trees, video, wildflowers, work on 2008-03-03, 07:15:00
46*, 100% humidity, sw 6 mph wind, Rain, FLOOD WARNING, FLASH FLOOD WATCH
I'm going to talk about me for a few minutes, mainly because I'm in a meditative mood. Contemplating the state of things, perhaps brought on by the coming spring and the new job. You see, there are two sides to the coin of Girl Gone Gardening, an that is mainly why I keep two blogs. There used to be only one main blog,
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Posted by admin to Flowers, LOVE, cheapskate finds, leaves, photos, seeds, shrubs, snow, summer, weather, wildflowers on 2007-12-13, 16:58:00
31*, feels like 20*, 78% humidity, WSW 16 mph wind, cloudy
I have a new lover. His name is Penstemon smallii. I bumped into him at the clearance table at the nursery in late summer. At first I wasn't too impressed with him. He seemed....cheep. So I did a background check on him and found out that they tend to like a more dry climate so I thought he and I wouldn't stand a chance together. Still,
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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 Freya, Mr. Hyper, Winter, animals, blue, herbs, idiots, neighborhood, photos, seeds, wildflowers on 2007-12-04, 13:15:00
34*, 64% humidity, calm wind, cloudy, SEVERE WEATHER ALERT: Snow Advisory up to 6"
Every now and then I do a search on Google or yahoo for 'Free Seeds'. You never know just what will pop up. Just the other day I discovered Burt's Bees has a free wildflower seed offer. Last year I received 2 packets of herb seed from Celestrial Seasonings teas. Well going through my seed stash I found the
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Posted by admin to Flowers, Grow-A-Long Fun, blue, books, cheapskate finds, fruit, garden, herbs, hostas, seeds, tomatoes, trees, veggies, wildflowers on 2007-11-24, 19:16:00
28*, feels like 22*, 82% humidity, SSW 6 mph wind, fair
My Pinetree catalogue came in the mail the other day but I didn't have time to go through it and make my order. This year it's going to be quite sizable---
Seeds:
Nutribud Broccoli (open pollinated)
Falstaff Brusselsprouts (Open pollinated)
Slim Jim eggplant (Open pollinated)
Dill's Atlantic Giant Pumpkin -----for the giant pumpkin grow
