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In the Garden

June 15th, 2008

I like to take a walk around the garden in the morning to see what’s blooming. This morning I noticed that my foxglove are taller than I am and the first Echinacea is in bloom. Here are some photos from the garden this morning

Raised Beds

June 13th, 2008

This year I decided to put in some raised beds. My full-sun area is limited (due to the huge trees on 3 side of my small lot). I can either grow some veggies in my front yard or in a small area in the back yard. Since, I’m not quite ready to tear up the lawn and plant potatoes, I chose the back. The back yard used to be a gravel driveway before we moved in, so the ground is compacted and full of gravel. Since I couldn’t dig down, I built up. I had Mr Chiots build me a few raised beds this spring. I mixed up a beautiful soil and away I went. Here’s a photo of a few of the beds after they were built and filled.

Garden Journal

June 13th, 2008

This blog is going to be a journal of my gardens.  I always wish I had written down when I started my tomatoes or when the tulips bloomed last year.  Now I will have it all in one place.  Hopefully I can keep it up.

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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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