From the monthly archives:

May 2003

Saturday Miscellany

May 24, 2003

It rained most of the day, but I got out for an hour or so in the middle of the afternoon. The compost pile we turned has sprouted some sort of mushrooms. Meanwhile, the temperature is holding steady at 110. (This was a mostly done pile that Valerie had dumped a bunch of new weeds [...]

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Tulips Galore

May 20, 2003

Really just a quick run through the garden with the camera. Lisa’s away, and the blackflies are horrid. I can only go out without a bugsuit between 10 and 2. They’ve also found their way up to the balcony which they usually don’t do. The new pond pump is here. Of course it has a [...]

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Plant the cosmos, enjoy the bulbs

May 18, 2003

Lisa had to take the train down to DC today, but the train has been rescheduled to leave at three, so we were able to get in little more gardening before she left. While we were up in Claremont to get the fish on Friday, we stopped in at Wal-mart to pick up some potting [...]

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Tulips and more tulips

May 17, 2003

Of course, it didn’t freeze last night. Our weather station says it went down to 37, so everything probably would have been okay even without all the covering up I did. But since there’s another frost warning tonight, it makes sense to just leave them all right where they are and covered them up just [...]

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New Fish and a Freeze Warning

May 16, 2003

Crap! I knew this was a risk, but every time I checked the ten day forecast, the lows each night weren’t lower than 40, so I risked it and put out all of my window boxes. And guess what! Tonight and tomorrow night there is a frost warning. So now I’m trying to decide what [...]

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Water plants came in

May 15, 2003

The stuff we ordered last month from Waterplants online from Colorado finally got here today. Though I’d ordered everything they had for zone 4, they were out of some stuff, so my $160 order turned into $98.25 with shipping. Everything came bare root, but I had some left over pots from previous attempts at water [...]

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So very buggy

May 14, 2003

It is so very buggy and rainy. I keep wanting to go outside and putter at lunch or after work, but between the rain and the bugs, it’s just not very pleasant out there right now. We’ve had four days of rain in a row, I think. My poor tulips are starting to droop from [...]

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