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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Lovely Thugs, And How To Live With Them (In The Garden, Of Course!)
Another wonderful, and dry, weekend here. We started several garden projects, and are in the middle of them, so no pretty “after” pictures to show you . . . yet. However, they should be coming up shortly (supposed to be … Continue reading
Posted in Clematis, companion plantings, Container Gardening, Evergreen shrubs, flower gardening, Gardening Basics, Hardy geranium, Herbs, Plant Combinations, Plant Problems, Shrubs, Spring-Blooming shrubs, Vines, Winter-blooming shrubs
Tagged Clematis, container gardening, gardening, minerva's garden, minerva;s garden blog, plant combinations
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Easy and Free Plant Labels
I started a bunch more seeds over the glorious and hot weekend–you can read more about some of the garden activities we did, such as plant peas and potatoes. At this time of year, when I’ve already made my … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, flower gardening, Gardening Basics, Recycled Gardening, start seeds
Tagged container gardening, diy free plant labels, free plant labels, gardening, minerva's garden, minerva;s garden blog, plant labels for seed starting, recycled gardening, recycled gardening tip, recycled plant labels, starting seeds, starting seeds indoors
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Peas, Potatoes and You
(Okay–I saw a video biography recently of a wonderful cabaret duo, John Wallowitch and Bertram Ross called Wallowitch and Ross: This Moment, and this is one of the songs that they did, and I can’t get it out of my … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Fruit, Gardening Basics, Insects, Mini-Dwarf Fruit Trees, Potatoes, seed choices, Snow Peas, Vegetable gardening
Tagged chitting seeds, gardening, growing salad greens, lettuce, minerva's garden, minerva;s garden blog, Mini-Dwarf Fruit Trees, salad greens, starting seeds, vegetable gardening
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Salad Green Seeds Germinated!
Last week I showed you our new salad bed. It contains some lettuce and radicchio starts that I started from seed, as well as a bunch of rows to which I added 10 different types of salad greens seeds, as … Continue reading
Posted in Salad Greens, Season extenders, seed choices, start seeds, Vegetable gardening, weather
Tagged gardening, growing salad greens, hot weather, lettuce, minerva's garden, minerva;s garden blog, minervasgardenblog, Pacific Northwest salad growing tips, plastic row covers for spring vegetable gardening, radicchio, salad greens, starting salad greens from seed, starting seeds, starting seeds outdoors
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Pruning ‘Einset’ Grapes–Use Color Coding!
We had another little string of 3 delightful sunny days, including the weekend, and so I thought that would be the perfect time to go out and prune the grape that is growing on the pergola. My grape variety is … Continue reading
Posted in 'Einset' grape, 'Einset' red seedless table grape, Fruit, Grapes, Pruning
Tagged 'Einset' grape pruning, 'Einset' grapes, cane pruning grapes, gardening, growing red seedless table grapes, minerva's garden, minerva;s garden blog, minervasgardenblog, pruning fruit vines, pruning grapes
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The View From Our Front Stoop Today, 5 pm
Yesterday, it was between 70 and 75 degrees here. Today–It is a pounding rain on the roof–in this picture you can kind of see the rain pooling up and spattering on the street below. Did I mention we live … Continue reading
Salad Under Wraps
It was sunny and warm for three days in a row here, and you know how I get when the weather cooperates–needless to say, I didn’t sit down behind my computer much at all. New tulips blooming this week– … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Beets, Bulbs, Fall and Winter-bearing vegetables, flower gardening, Fruit, Insects, Lettuce, Mini-Dwarf Fruit Trees, Salad Greens, Season extenders, seed choices, Spring-Blooming bulbs, start seeds, Vegetable gardening, weather
Tagged Bulbs, gardening, growing salad greens, lettuce, minerva's garden, minerva;s garden blog, Mini-Dwarf Fruit Trees, radicchio, salad greens, spring flowering bulbs, spring-blooming bulbs, starting seeds, starting seeds indoors, starting spring salad greens, tulips, vegetable gardening, winter vegetable gardening
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Hello, Hyacinths!
Happy beginning of April, everyone! We finally had a much-needed dry and sunny day–66 degrees–yahoo! I ran around and did a lot of little cleaning jobs out in the garden; still have a bunch left to do, but isn’t that … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs, companion plantings, drought tolerant plants, Evergreen shrubs, flower gardening, Plant Combinations, Shrubs, Spring-Blooming bulbs, weather
Tagged Bulbs, drought tolerant plants, gardening, hyacinth bulbs, hyacinth flowers, hyacinths, minerva's garden, minerva;s garden blog, plant combinations, record-setting rainfall, spring-blooming bulbs
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