Tag: nature
group name: gardeners
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January 17, 2007 04:23 PM EST --
By Tom Christopher, Contributing Garden Editor---
I used to threaten my son when he was little with promises of squid for dinner. He's tough; he never responded with more than a groan . . .
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April 27, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
As an eager new gardener, I try to reign in my enthusiasm for the ideas and things I'd like to do in my yard. I remember the first spring and summer I spent in my house, I spent it in awe watching . . .
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June 29, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
Any local gardeners out there willing to offer some expertise?
I am looking after a garden on the south side of my Saint Paul building.
Last summer it became clear that "south side" . . .
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April 16, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
Let's play a game. Guess what I am? Answer on Thursday and the winner gets virtual kudos.
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May 17, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Hooray!! The plants are in the ground. I had some time last Friday being away from work and I picked up a flat of herbs and a couple of four packs of marigolds at a local big box grocer that has a garden . . .
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October 03, 2006 02:04 PM EDT --
By Tom Christopher, Contributing Garden Editor---
Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd loom large in American plantsmanship. North Hill, their 7-acre garden in southern Vermont, is a place of pilgrimage, attracting . . .
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October 11, 2008 10:40 PM EDT --
Common wisdom has it that Autumn is the time to bend our backs, gather and put by Summer's harvest, and prepare the family for the long dark nights, barren branches, and icy coffin of winter storms. . . .
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June 07, 2008 09:20 PM EDT --
When we moved into our new house four years ago, I knew I would have lots of gardens to move. The owner had been elderly and the gardens were overgrown and out of control. Well each year I weeded and tried . . .
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November 16, 2006 08:38 PM EST --
With the gardening season drawing to a close, you might want to consider "dusting" your garden. Adding sawdust, that is.
Sawdust is a terrific material for enriching the soil with humus, which . . .
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November 16, 2006 04:44 PM EST --
By Tom Christopher, Contributing Garden Editor---
I hope next spring to begin the planting of a garden around our house in western Massachusetts and, given the size of the budget, I know two things for . . .
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April 26, 2007 04:22 PM EDT --
I am a novice gardener. My house plants seem to do well. Since I have turned my attention to outdoor gardening, I think my eyes have been opened to some of the interesting and creative gardens that are . . .
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December 26, 2007 06:47 PM EST --
When the poinsettia's bracts age and lose their aesthetic appeal, there's no reason to throw it out. With proper care, dedication and a certain . . .
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April 17, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
Watch this short how-to video and then make your own short video celebrating Minnesota's nature, outdoors, and environment.
From your little corner of nature in your garden to Minnesota's . . .
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March 18, 2009 07:46 PM EDT --
Spring Thaw (03/18/09)
We're well into our Spring thaw, snowmelt trickling, rather than tumbling down the concrete gutters of our suburban street. Rain is predicted over the . . .
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June 08, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
When we moved into our new house four years ago, I knew I would have lots of gardens to move. The owner had been elderly and the gardens were overgrown and out of control. Well each year I weeded and . . .
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August 16, 2006 03:59 PM EDT --
By Tom Christopher--
Consistency, I admit, has never been my strongpoint. I've always taken comfort in Emerson's remark in Self- Reliance about it being "the hobgoblin of little minds". . . .
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March 08, 2009 06:05 PM EDT --
Signs of Spring and Hope
Signs of spring are steadily arriving-last night's switchover to Daylight Savings, the start of high school track season, the manic-depressive blizzard/melt/blizzard . . .
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November 08, 2008 06:40 PM EST --
I paced the down the boardwalk in Stillwater this afternoon, a solitary splash of hot pink and denim against damp concrete, heavy water, and grass made translucent and brittle with repeated freezing. . . .
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August 24, 2007 12:32 AM EDT --
Have you ever noticed that after good thunderstorm your plants and grass have a growth spurt, and are even healthier? That is because Lightning creates natural a natural fertilizer.
Most of the . . .
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April 23, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
Well the fantastic weather over the weekend, and the much needed rain, has certainly perked up the garden. My daffodils bloomed last week, the day lillies are vigorously coming forth and my Iris . . .
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