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gardening Archive

A long road to the garden

It’s been a long road to the garden.  I bought seeds back in March and hoped to get them in the ground by mid-April.  I planned three beds and had bought wood to frame out two.  During that wood purchase, I broke the window of my car, which put an end to the building exercise. [...]

Garden Beds

Well, I’ve been a little behind schedule due to my Achilles…but I managed to cobble together my garden beds two weekends ago, and filled them with dirt this past weekend.  I ordered topsoil from a local nursery.  It was anything but TOP.  I was a bit disappointed.  I did some more research and found that [...]

Exactly where I want to be

I had one of those moments tonight where you just realize that you’ve got it pretty good.  I’m exactly where I want to be.  I’ve spent a long time working to get here.  Things just kind of fell into place over the past 6 years.  2002 was a mess, but from April 2003 it all [...]

Seeds in Some Earth

I’m very excited today because I finally got some seeds into the earth this morning.  I have been meaning to get some seeds started for about a month now and it just has not happened due to broken car windows, and injuries…The latter being the fundamental problem because it really slowed me down. I’m happy [...]

Weekend in review

So I had my list of things to do for the weekend.  Here’s a list of things that got done Picked up starter fertilizer at the hardware store. Raked Half of the yard, with vigor to get up dead thatch. Seeded said half. Fertilized said half. Purchase Fake Owl to put in yard to keep birds [...]