“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you’ve got. ~T. Roosevelt Every now and then a random conversation will spark an idea for a blog post. Yesterday I mentioned that liquid kelp is a valuable and nutrient rich fertilizer for plants to a vegan friend who [...] I have a primrose blooming outdoors, but the weather prevents me from presenting it today. Therefore I offer you a picture of the indoor garden eggplant which now stands at 22″ tall with leaves that measure 10″ in length…and just look at those flowers! Share this post Hide Sites Yesterday hubby and I celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary. (My how the time flies!) To celebrate we planted raspberries and thornless blackberries. Truthfully we weren’t “celebrating” by planting berry canes but we had several to plant and Mid-March is the ideal time for planting them. Our gain is your gain, if you haven’t [...] I like rain, actually. ~Bill Rodgers The rains have moved in and happy outdoor seed sowing days have come to an end for now. It was wonderful to be out in the sunshine (in short sleeves no less!) turning over the winter rye and marking furrows for tiny seeds. The warm [...] I spent the first glorious warm day of March planting out seeds for the first of the spring garden crops. Every season has its rite-of-passage and nothing signals the birth of spring for this gardener like plunking in the faded pearls of pea seeds. A sweet return to dark crumbly soil and fresh spring air [...] Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~Theodore Roosevelt With the “official” first day of spring merely eleven (!) days off, it’s a good time to plan monthly garden chores. It’s helpful to keep track of progress and record [...] “It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
Every gardener has given thought at [...] “While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below.”
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