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Lawn

Fall’s Fallen

by Lisa on October 21, 2003

PA210002.jpgI hate it when I travel in October, and somehow it seems to happen every year. I’ve been gone for nine days, and I missed my favorite season! Peak has come and gone while I’ve been out in California and Texas.

And of course, the weather is so rainy and wet that we are constantly watching the weather forecasts and trying to figure out when we will be able to get out there, and also trying to prioritize what we should do, and when. Decisions, decisions.

PA210005.jpgOne of the things we are discussing is whether or not we should rake leaves. Frank usually wants to just mow them in place, leaving the organic matter to improve the soil in the lawn. Me, I confess I sort of look at the lawn as a composting vehicle for me. All I really care about is the grass clippings for my compost, which will improve the soil in my flower beds. And it doesn’t deserve all that leaf matter! I want all those leaves to go into my compost with all of their weed fighting powers.

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A little work after work

September 22, 2003

It’s stress relief to get out in the garden, even if just for an hour, after work in the evenings. This year has been so wet, though, that mostly tonight we got out there because the lawn was long enough to cut as hay, and it was finally dry enough to mow. All of the [...]

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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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The Stargazers Arrive

August 8, 2003

It has been a terribly rainy week. I managed to get the lawn mowed yesterday, then it rained all night. The stargazer lilies are open, and gorgeous. Unfortunately, some of them seem quite short, even though we composted them last August. I’m hoping that compost this spring and fall will get them back on the [...]

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Chores

July 25, 2003

I did some puttering outside the last two nights. Yesterday, I mowed the lawn and hauled in two cartloads of firewood. It’s rotten stuff from ’96, but we need to do something with it. I also checked out the mushroom beds while I was down there: nothing showing. It’s way too soon, of course, but [...]

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Busy, beautiful Saturday

June 28, 2003

We got a lot done today. Frank’s big to-do item was to turn the compost. The far right bin of the old set (right near the house) is our finished stuff, and has collapsed down to less than half a bin. It’s too late to spread that stuff now, so he was hoping that the [...]

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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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