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Day

A Baby Goldfish

by Frank on July 31, 2003

P7310011.jpgOr so we think. It hides in the algae (which it’s eating madly) so it’s almost as hard to get a good look as a good picture. There are also half a dozen somewhat larger (two inch) charcoal grey fish in there, none of which we’d seen before today. At the rate the salmon colored one is eating, it should be big enough for a good look inside a month.

P7310003.jpgThe colors in the garden right now are definitely the hot summer color variety. Many yellows, reds and oranges. Both the lilies and the daylilies are in full bloom. We are going to have to look at the heights of many of the lilies and their surrounding flowers because some of them are being over-shadowed by things like the white Crazy Daisies. Both are looking good, but I think they need to be separated somewhat.

compost pile potatoesThe potatoes that I buried in the compost bin that is cooling off have all come up and are looking quite healthy. I don’t know what they are going to taste like, but the plants look big and vigorous, so I have high hopes that they will be at least as good as the store-bought ones they came from.

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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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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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Rain, finally

August 1, 2002

We finally got some rain last night. This is, of course, just after Frank got the irrigation all working again, including some very cool drip stuff for all my boxes, but man did my yard need water. Everything was so wilted, and we had kept getting clouds and thunder, even some hail, but no rain. [...]

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Daylily Farm

July 27, 2002

We had a very busy day today, having to run errands here and there, and it seemed like I’d miss the Day Lily Extravaganza at a breeding farm near us. But at the last minute, we pawned off some of the errands on Valerie and made it out there just in time. This is a [...]

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Puttering in the garden

July 7, 2002

Since the stupid shredder still wouldn’t start, we puttered in the yard for most of the day. The window boxes are looking just about perfect right now, though I need to get out there and deadhead the whole lot of them again. I’ve been concentrating on keeping up with the weeding and dead-heading in the [...]

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High Summer

July 14, 2001

Welcome to High Summer! I was a picture-taking fool today, but I can’t help it. The garden is absolutely beautiful right now. Such a change, suddenly. There are tons of colors all over the place, and everything, it seems, is in bloom. My window boxes in particular are all very full, draping down nicely. I’m [...]

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