Mostly Plants

Travelings, Cookings, and Musings from a Migratory Public Defender

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Garden: Not a Total Loss

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Some of you, my dear readers, may have wondered what ever happened to my garden.  The short answer is I stopped paying it much attention after the first week of July, when I started caring about the bar.
I had assumed it was a total loss.  When I moved to Massachusetts I showed the plot to [...]

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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

The garden is coming along quite nicely now.  I visited today, did some digging, and mulched around the brussels sprouts.  Three cubic feet of mulch didn’t go nearly as far as I thought they would, and I gestimate it would take about ten bags to mulch the whole garden.  Probably cheaper to plant chives, clover, [...]

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I can has garden!

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday I took possession of a Cornell garden plot out at Plantations, just south of the Dyce bee labs.  I got some Brussels Sprout seedlings from Home Depot and put them straight in the ground, and staked out my plot with dead limbs from the forest that other gardeners have used in the past (I [...]

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