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Great Gardening Books: Designing the New Kitchen Garden

June 21st, 2008

I just finished reading Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook. This is a great book on kitchen gardens. There are a lot of great photos of 3 kitchen gardens. Just the kind of book I like! If you’re considering putting in a potager give this book a read.

You Know You’re a Gardener

June 20th, 2008

You know you’re a gardener when you realize you just spent twice as much for a load of manure than you spent on groceries for yourself for the month!!!

Before & After

June 20th, 2008

I like before & after photos. It’s always good to see how much you have accomplished.

A month and a half later:

Roses

June 19th, 2008

I have 2 white rose bushes that I adopted 5 years ago. They are supposed to be climbing roses, so they were planted on both sides of our front porch to climb up the posts. Well, they’re not hardy enough for zone 5 to be climbing. They’re so finicky, always with some black spot or aphids. Since I don’t like to use pesticides in the garden and I don’t want to baby plants, they will be gone next year – anyone interested in some white semi-climbing roses? They are beautiful and they bloom all summer long.

White Roses

Busy Bees

June 18th, 2008

I always enjoy watching the bees at work.

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This is a daily journal of my efforts to cultivate a more simple life, through local eating, gardening and so many other things. We used to live in a small suburban neighborhood Ohio but moved to 153 acres in Liberty, Maine in 2012.

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