AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
vegetables
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Gardening 101: Ten Lessons Learned
This week marks three years since we’ve been in our house. That means I’ve now had three years of gardens, and with those three years of experience has come a lot of learning! I didn’t really know anything about gardening, and still feel like I don’t…but I do know that I’ve learned some things along…
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Digging for Buried Treasure
Can you identify? I think it’s just some variety of green chili pepper… My garden is not doing so well. I’ll be honest. I’m disappointed. The heat, and my sporadic watering, coupled with the deer and squash bugs have left my garden lacking in produce. The deer have eaten my Swiss chard again, so I…
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Oh, Deer! (and other tales from the garden)
I have had a new visitor to my vegetable garden this year: deer. We have a field-ish type area behind our house, scattered with trees, and there are deer that live back there. From time to time we’ll see them in the backyard, but until this year, they’d stayed clear of my garden. A couple…
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Squishing the Squash Bug
I have squash growing in my garden this year. I’m not sure what type, though. They’re volunteers of sorts, though I really hoped they’d be there. Last year, after Halloween, I discarded all of our pumpkins and various squash and gourds into my garden to see what would happen. I had quite a variety last…
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Cooking with Swiss Chard
I decided to grow Swiss chard in my garden this year. I’m not exactly sure why, but I think this is what happened: I went to the farmer’s market sometime last summer and was lured in by the bright stalks of the multi-colored Swiss chard one of the vendors was selling. It was so pretty…
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What's New in the Garden…Since Yesterday!
When I come home from work in the evening I like to take a stroll through my garden. I find it relaxing and peaceful and fun. I say that as if I actually had a large garden to spend time walking through — my garden area consists of a path about 20 feet long, leading…
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May Gardening Update
At mid-May I would say that my garden this year is well beyond where it was last year at this time. Certainly, my perennial garden has progressed much differently. I think all of my tulips came in May last year, but this year they’ve been gone for a couple of weeks now! Sadly, that means…
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Getting an Early Start on Gardening
I was planning on the beginning of March be the start of my gardening season—meaning, I would start some seeds indoors to be transplanted into my garden after a couple months. I did start some seeds: tomatoes and several types of peppers. I also put some lettuce seeds in a container, to hopefully get an…
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Adventures in Gardening – This Year's Progress to Date
Well, seeing as though it’s almost July, I thought it would be time for a gardening update! I have been enjoying my gardens quite a bit this year, have already harvested some out of my vegetable garden and have seen lots of new flowers blooming this year in my perennial garden. The vegetables I planted…
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Dreaming of Spring
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At the Water's Edge 