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Oak – Slime Flux | Walter Reeves: The Georgia Gardener

August 6, 2012

I read this article on line written by The Georgia Gardener and thought I would share. If you have been dealing with the awful summer heat like we have been here in Cincinnati then you have come across a host of problems in the garden. Sometimes I am so worried about the veggies and flowers [...]

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Milkweed Bug- Good or Bad?

July 30, 2012

There are two types of Milkweed Bugs that love to hang out on the Milkweed plants: the Large Large Milkweed Bug and the Small Milkweed Bug. Both feed on the seeds of the Milkweed plants. They look almost exactly the same, except for, you guessed it, one is smaller than the other. Now what is a Milkweed Plant? [...]

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My Morning in the Kitchen Garden in Pictures

May 30, 2012

This morning the Fog was heavy and it made the garden so peaceful. I took some pics and wanted to share. The dew was showcasing the spiderwebs and making the plants glow green. Foghorn was doing his morning jog around the garden letting his crows fly. There were no bees or butterflies out this early [...]

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Do You Want to Grow, Salvia, Salvia or Salvia? HUH?

April 30, 2012

Salvia or the common name Sage refers to a large group of plants, nearly 500 species, which are native to Mexico and South America. Salvia species include perennial, biennial, and annual plants. In my garden I grow a Herb Salvia ‘Common Sage’ and a Flowering Salvia ‘Victoria Blue’ Both Beauties! ***** One a banquet for your mouth [...]

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Baby Chick Progress, The Preschool Years

April 28, 2012

The baby chicks are only 18 days old, but man oh man they have really grown. They are definitely ready for a bigger pen to live in. They are all roosting at night and I feed them 3 or 4 times a day. I made a larger outdoor playpen for them to go in when [...]

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The Mighty Roman Radish

April 24, 2012

The Radish is usually the first vegetable we harvest. Growing radishes was pioneered before the Roman empire; the name “radish” derived from “radix,” the Latin word for “root” We had a good rain here last Saturday and on Sunday I went out to the garden to find my Radishes showing off their sexy shoulders Radishes will push out of [...]

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Black Locust Tree

April 21, 2012

I am not in any way shape or form a morning person. You can ask the people I live with, I don’t like to get up and I can be a bit grumpy in the morning, or so they say! Anyway since I ended up with all those darn roosters, I have to keep Foghorn [...]

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Blackberry Beds ‘Pole Set Up’ Part II

April 19, 2012

Once the beds were prepped, and planted I needed to provide support for the growing baby bushes that with any luck would one day be 6′ tall. Cue- Jim and Larry for the manual labor. I watched, photographed and gave opinions where needed. Because Blackberries have stiffly erect, semierect, or trailing stems, depending on the type [...]

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Chicks are one week old, ohh how they’ve grown

April 18, 2012

It was just last Wednesday that I picked up the little balls of fluff. Guess what? They have grown like weeds! I put them back into the box the hatchery sent them home in to give you some perspective on their growth. last week today You know because they have grown so much, they are [...]

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Clematis

April 17, 2012

Clematis are beautiful flowering perennial plants. I have several growing around here and I always love their appearance in the spring. The flowers are huge and the colors are so vibrant! Most of the species of clematis are climbers, similar to vines. Clematis vines will grow to heights of twenty feet or more, if given [...]

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What a Beautiful Day Today!

April 15, 2012

Today was a busy day around here! Yesterday it started raining around 10:00 a.m and it didn’t stop until around 6:00. So nothing got done after we set up the bee hives. Today was sunny and beautiful outside with the temperature reaching 82 degrees. So with all the rain and today’s heat, weeds decided to [...]

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Bees Arrived!

April 14, 2012

Liz arrived this morning to place the bees in their new homes. The back of her SUV was filled with at least 15 wooden boxes, each filled with 3 pounds of bees and a Queen. VERY COOL! The boxes are referred to as “packages” and in each you have the worker bees and a Queen [...]