Tag: summer
group name: gardeners
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July 03, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
Things in the herb garden are going swimmingly. That's a figure of speech of course because there hasn't been much water in the Twin Cities other than from my garden hose. I've been using . . .
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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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December 17, 2008 08:06 PM EST --
Second Monday in December, 2008
Last night brought four inches of straight-falling snow that draped lawns, pines, and off-streets in heavy fleece, and left a pudding of salt and slush on . . .
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June 20, 2009 09:10 PM EDT --
Elm forest update:
Ooey-gooey, it was gluey, Waited too long, and it smelled like compost.
Covered in mud and mosquito bites
But the gutters are clean,
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September 13, 2008 05:59 PM EDT --
It's been pouring all afternoon, rain so heavy it drops vertical lines from heaven to earth. Ground level is saturated and steamy, and the roads hiss and plash from cars rolling home from the . . .
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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 06, 2009 05:35 PM EDT --
June 6 th , 2009
A chill rain pounds away at the pockmarked parking lot, explodes and drizzles down the plump hoods of new-issue SUVs and smaller, more energy-conscious imports. Strips of yellow-grass-greening . . .
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June 19, 2007 03:32 PM EDT --
The herbs are going gangbusters, though I need to do some weeding. It's been too hot for anything besides watering and staying on top of budding flower stalks on the basil, dill and cilantro. Since . . .
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July 25, 2009 11:33 PM EDT --
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
Some sing the praise
Of the red, red rose.
Of the exotic orchid,
They’ve many of those.
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July 11, 2008 01:39 PM EDT --
I am still on my mission to use hundreds of homegrown cherry tomatoes. So, this week I made a batch of "sun dried" tomatoes or what we call "Mater-Chips."
We do this every . . .
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June 20, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
This year, the solstice occurs exactly at 2:06 P.M. EDT June 21, heralding the beginning of summer!
from Wikipedia:
A solstice occurs twice a year, whenever Earth's axis tilts the most toward or . . .
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May 20, 2008 05:33 PM EDT --
There is a lot going on at Bachman's this June, come check it out! All events are FREE and open to the public.
Iris Society of Minnesota's Annual Iris Show
Sunday, June . . .
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