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Worms

Gargoyles and indoor blooms

November 30, 2003

Even though it’s not specifically about the garden, it is about the outside part of the house, so I’ll mention it here anyway! Our anniversary gift to ourselves this year were two of these gargoyles, now climbing the sides of our log home. We absolutely love them, and are only sorry that they are so [...]

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Nice start to November

November 1, 2003

I’ve been gone all week in DC, so coming home to a serious day of gardening was just what the doctor ordered, and the weather cooperated nicely. There wasn’t really much blue sky, but it was warm and it wasn’t raining, and I’ll take that after the cold and wet fall we’ve been having this [...]

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Worm bin update

October 24, 2003

We’ve been going slow on adding garbage to give the worm population time to build up, but we seem to be okay now. We’ve got the second bin about half full of garbage, and it’s just squirming with worms. We also got a quart of worm tea for the houseplants. The first bin still has [...]

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New worm bin

October 10, 2003

I haven’t been too happy with our worm bins. (From Magic Worm Ranch). The drain seems to stop up, the worms don’t seem to thrive, and harvesting the worm castings takes an hour or so of manually fishing out worms. After looking around, I bought a Worm Factory from Composters.com. It’s a five bin tower. [...]

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More plants, and planting

August 14, 2003

We went to the grand opening of a Home Depot in Keene last night. Their nursery isn’t great, but we did get some good deals. We were a bit disappointed in how many zone six and seven plants we saw. Keene might be zone 5, but most of the hill towns around Keene are definitely [...]

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Dripping

June 20, 2003

One of the Lamer Landscapers semi-successful projects was installing irrigation for us. They actually got it running in the spring of 2001. As usual, they demonstrated that they are landscapers not gardeners. Also cheap. They finally got the stuff running June of 2001 (only 9 months behind schedule). Two valves failed that summer. In 2002, [...]

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Busy, Gray Saturday

May 31, 2003

Finally, a day when it’s not actually raining. Well, not very hard, anyway. There was light drizzle on and off and the sun didn’t actually come out, but we got quite a bit done out there today. The town had their annual plant swap in the morning. I took down some obedient plant, a couple [...]

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