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Incompetent Gardener: September 2009

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. A Change in the Weather. Monday was windy and I found this Baltimore Oriole nest on the ground under a Buckeye tree. I was pleased to find it because in the late Spring was sitting under the tree with my friend Bob and he asked: "What was that bird." Oblivious as I often am, I replied, "What bird? Tonight they are predicting a mild frost. The roadside asters are quite lovely this year. Their flowers will persist all but a very hard f...Hardy...

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Incompetent Gardener: A Change in the Weather

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. A Change in the Weather. Monday was windy and I found this Baltimore Oriole nest on the ground under a Buckeye tree. I was pleased to find it because in the late Spring was sitting under the tree with my friend Bob and he asked: "What was that bird." Oblivious as I often am, I replied, "What bird? Tonight they are predicting a mild frost. The roadside asters are quite lovely this year. Their flowers will persist all but a very hard f...Hardy...

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Incompetent Gardener: April 2009

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. At the end of the last post, "Bob's herb Garden" I asked what I was forgetting. Bob wondered about the three raspberry plants he took. Raspberry leaves are often used in herbal teas and for certain medicinal purposes, so qualify as herbs even if I wasn't thinking so. Which is the species name for European and Asian raspberries. Splitters hold that the native raspberry of North America is a separate species Rubus strigosus. But the cultivar name ...

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Incompetent Gardener: June 2009

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Something I've been meaning to post at that blog was that we had three nights of hard frosts around May 20th. I have thought to make my garden less dependent on mowing. Permaculture is truly an idea for the ages. But figuring out the transition from here to there is the hard work, and the puzzle I haven't yet solved. I wonder if our economic systems are similarly resilient? Recently The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience.

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Incompetent Gardener: Raspberries

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. At the end of the last post, "Bob's herb Garden" I asked what I was forgetting. Bob wondered about the three raspberry plants he took. Raspberry leaves are often used in herbal teas and for certain medicinal purposes, so qualify as herbs even if I wasn't thinking so. Which is the species name for European and Asian raspberries. Splitters hold that the native raspberry of North America is a separate species Rubus strigosus. But the cultivar name ...

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Incompetent Gardener: Saving Seeds

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, August 26, 2009. I'm utterly incompetent in blogging here. Really a blog is a good form of garden diary, but I'm afraid either on paper or in bytes a diary is of little use unless it's used. I hardly clean up very throughly, indeed mostly I let things go until the Spring. That provides cover for insects and animals. Ack! Perhaps the easiest flower seed of all to collect is the orange Cosmos Cosmos sulphureus. That picture is a bit misleading as the common types...

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Incompetent Gardener: Hand Tools

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Tuesday, April 7, 2009. That post is called Dirt. I didn't think too much when writing, just wrote about what I've been doing lately. Instead of reposting it here I thought to write about that some more. Actually, since I've been using hand tools a lot lately, I thought about an old Incompetent Gardener essay on hand tools and insert links. Drat, that's not so easy, so I'll just write. Called A Farm for the Future. I do use some power tools, but most of my gardening is do...

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Incompetent Gardener: Bob's Herb Garden

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Weeds thrive in most of my garden beds and in most there is a steady march of encroaching grasses. I'm neither proud nor embarrassed about this, just the fact. One of the things about gardening among weeds is that many wonderful flower garden plants simply cannot survive the competition for long. Whatever they are I hope they grow for Bob. There are so many interesting species and cultivars. That Sempervivum can be fun to collect and grow. That ...

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Incompetent Gardener: Resilience

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Something I've been meaning to post at that blog was that we had three nights of hard frosts around May 20th. I have thought to make my garden less dependent on mowing. Permaculture is truly an idea for the ages. But figuring out the transition from here to there is the hard work, and the puzzle I haven't yet solved. I wonder if our economic systems are similarly resilient? Recently The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience.

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Incompetent Gardener: Wherin the Incompetent Gardener Discovers Tussy Mussies

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Gardening for adventure and fun. Wednesday, August 26, 2009. Wherin the Incompetent Gardener Discovers Tussy Mussies. The Incompetent Gardener Discovers Tussy Mussies. August 29, 2005. I love to wear flowers and I should make a point of doing it more often. August 28, 2009 at 7:16 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Wherin the Incompetent Gardener Discovers Tussy Mu.