Just received an email from a woman who’s just moved to Manitoba. Is there anyone out there with experience gardening in a really cold climate that can help her? Post your answer in the comments.
“I have just moved to The Pas, Manitoba (Zone 1B) from southern Ontario (Zone 5B). I am looking to correspond with […]
Entries from August 2004
Can you help?
August 31st, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · 7 Comments
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Garden Angst
August 29th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
For the past two (or is it three?) weeks, I have been putting up with a strained ligament or tendon that connects from my thumb to my wrist. I can still do most normal activities, but any kind of grabbing or pushing, from using scissors to wiping the table, makes me realize that I hurt […]
Categories: Garden chores · What's up/blooming
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More lawn “plants”
August 22nd, 2004 by Alice Nelson · 1 Comment
Here are some additional plants in our lawns that are not lawns. Some I had forgotten and some I hadn’t identified. Wild chamomile (pineapple plant), lambs quarters or pig weed (can be cookied and eaten;tastes like spinach), chickweed, rose mallow, butter and eggs, and sand spurrey. There are probably more!
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Garden Desire
August 19th, 2004 by Judy Miller · No Comments
Just got a huge bag of lovely daffodils, 100 dn1 for $15. I should be able not only to finish the row along the side of the quonset barn but put in a row in the lavender field and share a bunch with Mom as well. A lady saw me loading them into […]
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Really coldclimate
August 17th, 2004 by Alice Nelson · No Comments
Ever been to a county fair where the only tomato entries were green tomatoes? Noone had ripe ones up here. I’m not sure mine will ever get riipe. We’re due for another cold spell. And some of the potatoes at the fair were the size of golf balls. My flowers are blooming beautifully, though! […]
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‘Nother blog
August 9th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
Here’s another garden blog, recently discovered via Don of Hands in the Dirt. It’s the Garden Journal of Eating Peanuts. Emphasis on organic and permaculture gardening, mostly vegetables, it seems. Not sure of location. And no RSS feed that I could find. Drat!
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When is a Weed not a Weed?
August 7th, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · 1 Comment
Last Saturday and this one I weeded the patio bed, each time just enough to get one of my potted plants into the ground. Last week it was Molinia caerulea ‘Variegata,’ and today it was Polemonium caeruleum ‘Brise d’Anjou.’ Both of these have yellow variegation in the foliage which I intend to complement the flowers […]
Categories: Garden chores
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