Tag: gardening
group name: lifeisaball
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May 27, 2008 12:05 AM EDT --
The garden is coming along despite my inability to do much with it so far this year. Here is the view out my bedroom window.
The Dwarf Korean lilac is almost in bloom as . . .
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March 31, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
As many of you know, I've been absent from these hallowed spaces for several months, since Christmas brought my mother-in-law to our town. Frustration is a favorite motivator for me, and I have used . . .
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June 11, 2007 02:34 PM EDT --
This beautiful, ancient Southern Live Oak tree in my neighbor's yard is now dead of a completely preventable cause!
This beautiful tree, which is well over 100 years old with a crown that easily reaches . . .
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July 23, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
May of 2005 I attended my first Spring Planting Festival on a farm hidden in the hills outside of the small city of Mansfield, Missouri called Baker Creek Farm.
Mansfield might be better known . . .
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August 18, 2008 08:25 PM EDT --
I got the camera out today. So I thought I would share a few of my new additions to the garden this year.
Anise Hyssops and Sun Chokes by the front porch. I rather like my surroundings . . .
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August 18, 2008 08:53 PM EDT --
Played today with some of my freshly dried beans and corn from the garden(not to mention the peppers and garlic and tomatoes)!
I hulled these from dry pods, washed them and boiled them till . . .
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August 02, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
I really didnt know what to expect for today when I made plans this week to visit with an internet garden forum friend.
Last week she had posted a thread stating she had some pepper plants that . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
It may be January, but my thoughts are of spring.
I start in mid to late December organizing seeds and starting my logs and journals for the new year.
Since I have a large cold frame/ sort of house, . . .
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July 21, 2007 01:08 PM EDT --
Most of you know of my journey ....and my attempts to test my abilities at growing organic and heirloom.
Nothing is more plesant, even in small ways, than reaping the fruit of your labor.
After the mass . . .
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June 06, 2008 10:33 PM EDT --
I only have to spend a few moments bent over my green bean patch to remind myself, that what I have done over the last two years is working. In the last three days I have harvested 2 pounds of lovely, . . .
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July 29, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
It's just around the corner... a two day festival in the heart of southern Missouri!
Come join in on the famil fun August 5th and 6th 2007!
MUSIC
FOOD
gardening lectures
auction
Shopping . . .
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September 10, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
Yesterday the local garden club of Forsyth Missouri celebrated 50 years of service to the community.
Our local garden club is a small self- funded group of 20 local residents who live in the . . .
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February 20, 2008 12:36 AM EST --
It has been a LONG week, blame my off humor title on that. I can say that the state of the garden is STRONG and mean it, and have pic's to back it up!
Over a month ago I began posting pics of my . . .
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August 12, 2008 12:03 AM EDT --
By goll this has been on roller coaster of a year!
I know that I am a creature of extremes, but who would have thought gardening would be so emotional.
But alas, no poetry this month, just a reality . . .
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August 09, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
I have returned, but I have not come back yet. My head and heart are still at the farm.
It's not so much that it was the perfect weekend, I have come to know that perfection is not a tremendously . . .
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March 06, 2008 05:36 PM EST --
March is a wonderfully horrible month when obsessed with gardening.
It is the month that nature begins teasing us with serious spring overtures.
Little peeper frogs suddenly are up . . .
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December 17, 2007 08:51 PM EST --
Last Thursday night might have been just another cold December night in small town USA..but here in Forsyth for a few hours the city garden across the street from Taney county courthouse prepared the . . .
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April 19, 2008 09:56 PM EDT --
Life can be fun in between the drudgery of everyday have too's.
I just though I would share my momentary encounter with world renouned romance novelist
Janet Daily!
I have always know she . . .
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May 29, 2008 08:28 PM EDT --
Today I met with Mother Nature
to discuss upcomming affairs
her office was perfumed
with the dew drenched aroma of mint and blossoming wild flowers
I brought along my possibilities . . .
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March 19, 2008 12:30 AM EDT --
Halfway into March here in the Ozark Hills of South West Missouri, spring has sprung a leak! After a day and a half of continuous rain, there isn't much for me to immediately look forward . . .
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