A Detox Program for Addicted Gardeners
December 12th, 2005 by Kathy Purdy · 3 Comments
The optimistic gardener has developed a five-step program to enable gardening addicts in cold climates to cope better with their winter-imposed withdrawal from outdoor gardening. Sure, it’s a case of “physician, heal thyself,” but if you read her blog, you’ll know the treatment is necessary. In fact, it may already be too late. Stop by and extend your sympathy.
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Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. •
USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural;
Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian
Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level:
intermediate
• Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY
native plants, gardening with/for children
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Walter Jeffries
// Dec 20, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Or if it is too late there is always the greenhouse tunnel and the window box… Me, I have a secret garden under the sea.
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Joshua
// Dec 20, 2005 at 11:47 pm
Yes, far too late for that. If I went into the foot or more of snow covering my garden in subzero windchills and started saying such things, you may think I’ve gone mad! But what else would winter do to a grower pent up in the house than go mad?
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runelady
// Jan 2, 2006 at 11:18 pm
I plant containers for our booth at the medieval faire. It’s a stained glass booth. I decided, in a mad moment to preserve some of the tall spikey thingys for next year to save us a bit of cash. I then saved the begonias and some of the vines. They’re existing in my basement in front of my double glass doors. Some of the begonias won’t stop blooming. It’s rather nice, and if I can, I’ll get my hubby to post a picture of it all. A bit of garden inside. Now if I just remember to water them. My blog is called Familiar Echoes and attached to my daughter’s - Everything Is Under Control.
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