Chores

By Kathy Purdy April 15, 2009 – Posted in: Garden chores, Garden Tweets
3 comments

Compost turned today. Long-lost kitchen thermometer found. Now if they could only find the measuring cup . . .

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.

~Monty Don in The Complete Gardener pp. 142

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Meadowlark April 18, 2009, 1:02 pm

Wait. Did you find it IN the composte!!!! That makes me laugh. 🙂

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Kathy Purdy April 18, 2009, 1:12 pm

Yes, it was in the compost.

Chiot's Run April 15, 2009, 8:01 pm

I always get a good laugh when I find something in there, I have found one of my expensive cutco knives, spoons, and various other funny things.

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