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Maggie's Garden: Getting Ready For The Rain
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Getting Ready For The Rain. We are being optimistic even though this winter we have experienced the worst drought in 20 years. We decided to try to learn from previous winters and prepare for rain ( if it ever gets here! This picture from last winter gives you an idea of what I am talking about. So the first step was to install perforated drain pipe to help the drainage problem. Then the truck from the rock quarry dumped the drain rock for us to spread over the fabric. And a...
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Maggie's Garden: Iris Winter Clean Up
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014. Iris Winter Clean Up. I am way behind on winter clean up around here so I am working overtime to catch up! In the front of our property, next to the dirt road, is my Iris garden. This little plot of dirt was originally just a temporary place to plant my Irises until I could properly prepare a spot for them. Well, that was 16 years ago. Not only did I not move my original tubers, I have added many more over the years. Here is another "before" picture. And I remember how fun it i...
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Maggie's Garden: October 2013
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Thursday, October 24, 2013. La Coop Grand Hotel.Part 2. Way back in March of 2012 , I blogged ( and bragged ) about the great deal I bought via Craigslist. I scored a huge shed that was dismantled for $50! My husband and his military buddies rebuilt the shed for my new chicken coop. This is what it looked like after they reconstructed the shed. And this is another angle. What a great shed, soon to become the chicken coop of my dreams, for $50! I could not have asked for cuter pictures of my chickens!
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Maggie's Garden: April 2011
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Monday, April 11, 2011. Time For Our Trip! Given that our pasture is way too empty, this trip could not come at a better time! We have been anxiously waiting for this time to come! We are going to Okinawa for 2 weeks to visit our son, daughter in law, and 2 adorable grand kids. This will be a great adventure I am sure! Now, I am the type of person who does not like to fly, so I am nervous about such a long trip but cannot wait to get there to see my family. I had no choice. We will see what happens!
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Maggie's Garden: Fre....Fre.....Fre.....Freezing!!!!!
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Friday, January 3, 2014. For the last few weeks we have been experiencing a cold spell. Now, normally it is cold this time of year, even freezing for a night or two. But this cold spell has been going on for weeks with the average temperature at night being 25-30 degrees! Now that is cold for us folks in Northern California! I mean really, if I wanted to deal with frozen pipes, hoses, and chicken waterers all the time, I would move to the East coast! That is my Bougainvillaea plant that I have been babyi...
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Maggie's Garden: July 2011
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Saturday, July 16, 2011. A couple of things I forgot to include yesterday regarding the trip to Okinawa's Orchid Botanical Garden.the name of the place! Tropical Dream Center http:/ oki-park.jp/. And of course, I could not forget to add this picture.can you find my son? As you enter this huge complex, they have all these great looking animal structures made out of flowers.check them out! Two of my personal favorites were;. More pictures from Okinawa in the next post, back to the home front. The promise o...
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Maggie's Garden: December 2013
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Share Your Christmas Card and Link Up! Today I am co hosting a link up with Kara from Ramblings of a Marine Wife. To see all of your Christmas cards. Too simple and did not convey our message. Now what? After getting reassurance that they were not THAT BAD, I decided that they would work if I wrote a little something on each one. So that is what I did and now I am glad that I sent them out. A new tradition is born! Links to this post. Monday, December 9, 2013. Each week we w...
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Maggie's Garden: January 2014
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Resolutions Or Something Like That. For the last 28 days I have read so many great blogs, and Facebook posts about New Year Resolutions that my head is spinning. Don't get me wrong, I love them and plan never to stop reading them. No, don't do it, don't write about resolutions, keep writing about gardening, no, don't do it! While I felt obligated to do my annual New Year's resolutions, I set myself up in the usual ways. I signed up for a free 10 day online workshop about ho...
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Maggie's Garden: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Thanksgiving And Resolutions In November. And this is the conclusion I have come to for this Thanksgiving; I am truly grateful for so many things. First and foremost for me this year is the simple fact I am here to be thankful. My brush with cancer this past year has renewed in me the wonder of my life and how blessed I am. I am grateful that my son, husband, and stepson served our country in foreign lands during deployment and made it back home. My friends. You know who...
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Maggie's Garden: Rain! And Saving Seeds.
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Friday, February 28, 2014. Well, my last post worked! We are now in the middle of two powerful, wet storms hitting northern California. While we are not out of the woods as far as the drought goes, right now all I can say is YAY! Or, like I experienced one time with a Tomato plant, your plant will be from one of the hybrid parent plant and be nothing like your original plant. That being said, below is the method of seed saving that I have had the best luck with. Below, I am using my heritage Red Bell Pep...