Tag: gardening
member name: Lou Anne L.
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January 08, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
It may be January, but my thoughts are of spring.
I start in mid to late December organizing seeds and starting my logs and journals for the new year.
Since I have a large cold frame/ sort of house, . . . more
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June 06, 2008 10:33 PM EDT --
I only have to spend a few moments bent over my green bean patch to remind myself, that what I have done over the last two years is working. In the last three days I have harvested 2 pounds of lovely, . . . more
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August 18, 2008 08:25 PM EDT --
I got the camera out today. So I thought I would share a few of my new additions to the garden this year.
Anise Hyssops and Sun Chokes by the front porch. I rather like my surroundings . . . more
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December 29, 2007 10:11 PM EST --
Soak 3 oz chopped garlic in 2 tsp of mineral oil for 24 hours.
Disolve 1/4 oz oil based soap( like palmolive) in a pint of water and
add this to the garlic mineral oil combination and . . . more
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February 20, 2008 12:36 AM EST --
It has been a LONG week, blame my off humor title on that. I can say that the state of the garden is STRONG and mean it, and have pic's to back it up!
Over a month ago I began posting pics of my . . . more
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January 16, 2008 10:44 PM EST --
This past week I have been spending some time enjoying Shannon's Cook's Challenge!
In these challenges there are many very common ingredients that one might take for granted, and still others, . . . more
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August 18, 2008 08:53 PM EDT --
Played today with some of my freshly dried beans and corn from the garden(not to mention the peppers and garlic and tomatoes)!
I hulled these from dry pods, washed them and boiled them till . . . more
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July 23, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
May of 2005 I attended my first Spring Planting Festival on a farm hidden in the hills outside of the small city of Mansfield, Missouri called Baker Creek Farm.
Mansfield might be better known . . . more
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May 29, 2008 08:28 PM EDT --
Today I met with Mother Nature
to discuss upcomming affairs
her office was perfumed
with the dew drenched aroma of mint and blossoming wild flowers
I brought along my possibilities . . . more
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August 13, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
With the Missouri heat index holding above 100 for better than a week now, and no relief insight untill(forcasted) Sunday, I was wondering how others in Missouri and in other states are maintaining . . . more
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August 02, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
I really didnt know what to expect for today when I made plans this week to visit with an internet garden forum friend.
Last week she had posted a thread stating she had some pepper plants that . . . more
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July 29, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
It's just around the corner... a two day festival in the heart of southern Missouri!
Come join in on the famil fun August 5th and 6th 2007!
MUSIC
FOOD
gardening lectures
auction
Shopping . . . more
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August 09, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
I have returned, but I have not come back yet. My head and heart are still at the farm.
It's not so much that it was the perfect weekend, I have come to know that perfection is not a tremendously . . . more
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March 06, 2008 05:36 PM EST --
March is a wonderfully horrible month when obsessed with gardening.
It is the month that nature begins teasing us with serious spring overtures.
Little peeper frogs suddenly are up . . . more
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December 17, 2007 08:51 PM EST --
Last Thursday night might have been just another cold December night in small town USA..but here in Forsyth for a few hours the city garden across the street from Taney county courthouse prepared the . . . more
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April 19, 2008 09:56 PM EDT --
Life can be fun in between the drudgery of everyday have too's.
I just though I would share my momentary encounter with world renouned romance novelist
Janet Daily!
I have always know she . . . more
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March 19, 2008 12:30 AM EDT --
Halfway into March here in the Ozark Hills of South West Missouri, spring has sprung a leak! After a day and a half of continuous rain, there isn't much for me to immediately look forward . . . more
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December 29, 2007 09:10 PM EST --
It is an unusual Saturday off for me. What I should say I guess, is that I usually don't have Saturday off.
The timing of it isn't particularily special, I am not used to having a weekend day . . . more
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February 03, 2008 07:39 PM EST --
" I don't know why it should be so hard, givin' up this turkey(circle) dance. Worn out lines from long ago, don't give love a chance." ( Bonnie Raitt, Circle Dance)
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February 07, 2008 07:45 PM EST --
What a wonderful day I had!
Even though the forcast predicted snow and cool temperature, somehow, we ended up with a glorious day. It was warm enough to open the House O' Green things . . . more
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