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Grow lights

Drastic Deadheading

July 12, 2003

It’s hard to believe that this is my first real deadheading run on the window boxes, but I don’t think the boxes themselves really took off until the cold and rainy June weather stopped. So once hot and sunny July started, we got a couple of weeks of gorgeous growth on the whole set, but [...]

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Seeking Shade

July 5, 2003

We goofed off all day yesterday, spending our holiday and thus day off in a canoe on the Connecticut River rather than working in the garden. We sure had fun, though, and the garden seems to have survived without us. I noticed yesterday morning that I have the first blooms from my Galliardia. This is [...]

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Summer Arrives

July 3, 2003

Usually, by the fourth of July, I’ve got all of my hot summer colors going strong in the garden. Despite the heat (which has been horrible), the summer colors are just now coming into their own. I used to be able to count on a burst of my ditch lilies reliably blooming right on the [...]

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Starting Herbs in Boxes

May 1, 2003

I had every intention of starting some herbs from seed in boxes for the upper balcony deck this year. I even bought the seed. I bought some sand to mix with the potting soil. I researched what temps they want to germinate. I kept a shelf clear in the basement for them. Somehow I never [...]

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Finishing the Front

April 27, 2003

I started outside this morning wanting to finish the bed directly in front of the front door. Though I’d done the majority of that bed, for some reason I stopped short of the most visible part, which was dumb, but I started there today, and what a huge difference it made! First off, I tackled [...]

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Another busy day

April 12, 2003

We both kept ourselves busy with gardening tasks today. We went up north this morning, looking for breakfast and grow bulbs. Breakfast was good, but neither Walmart, K-Mart, nor the pet store in Claremont had a single grow bulb for our shop light fixtures. We should have stocked up better when we saw them all [...]

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Planting the window boxes

April 5, 2003

So, whew, I’m tired. I finally got started putting the seedlings and plugs into the window boxes today. I have quite the ritual, I’ve discovered, now that I’m on my third year of doing them. Step one — pick window boxes of the same size to do at a time. Over the years I’ve replaced [...]

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