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Cool Weather Gardening

By: | 1 Comment | On: April 25, 2013 | Category : My Garden Diary

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After the last two disatrous years in summer gardening, I decided to try my hand at spring and cool weather gardening with things like beets, lettuce, swiss chard and spinach. Here in Oklahoma, 105º days in multiple quantities are not the best for summer gardening. I’m sure the pros know...
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Garden Gadgets – Flexible Garden Tie

By: | 2 Comments | On: June 26, 2012 | Category : Home & Garden, My Garden Diary

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My daughter Kayla bought me three packages of this wonderful stuff for Mother’s Day from Target. I think it was a buck a package. It’s flexible Garden Tie – kind of a rubberized wire to use for staking your plants. I’ve used twine and other staking material in the past,...
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My Garden Diary June 2012

By: | 0 Comments | On: June 20, 2012 | Category : Home & Garden, My Garden Diary

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Here are a few of my flowers I’ve enjoyed at the beginning of this summer…. I will always love a simple red geranium in a terra cotta pot.  Here is my Dad, enjoying the scenery a few weeks back..   Hollyhocks…oh my goodness have I enjoyed these! I want to...
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My Garden Diary 2012 – April

By: | 3 Comments | On: May 8, 2012 | Category : Home & Garden, My Garden Diary

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Well, let me just say, after my first year of planting heirlooms, I fell in love with their rich fruity flavors. I have no idea HOW I got them to grow that year, but I did. I planted those little buggers from seed and nursed them indoors until the frost...
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Lettuce Grow Patio Lettuce

By: | 1 Comment | On: September 22, 2011 | Category : Home & Garden, My Garden Diary

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Since my garden got baked to death this summer during our drought, I thought I’d play it safe and plant something portable…you know in pots, that could be moved in or out according to our crazy weather here.  After reading Jamie Oliver’s cookbook and his motivating me to patio garden,...
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