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Continue reading →: Orange Balls in My Cedar Tree??
We don’t actually have cedar trees in the Demonstration Garden, but there are a couple on our grounds just on the other side of the Demo Garden wall. Because of the deluge of rain we had yesterday (and the continuing damp conditions today), the Cedar Apple Rust galls are in…
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Continue reading →: Soggy Garden
After all the rain on Sunday, I doubt we will neet to water much this week! According to the miniature rain gauge I set out last week, we only got 2 1/2 inches in the Demo Garden. I think that is wrong! I think the wind blew a lot of…
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Continue reading →: The First Time Gardener: Hardening Off Plants
Since I’ve been waxing eloquent (or maybe not very eloquent) the past few days about taking seedlings inside and outside and inside and outside and whether or not I’m abusing them in the process, I thought now would be a good time to talk about hardening off seedlings. We’ll use…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
The weather has been gorgeous this week, and the plants in our Demonstration Garden are growing like weeds! On Tuesday, the grapevines were making significant progress on leafing out. Two days later, on Thursday, the grapevines are much farther along. If you look closely, you can see the buds starting…
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Continue reading →: “Hardening Off” the Seedlings, the Continuing Saga
Well, if you read the posts from yesterday, you see that I decided to put all the seedlings (which are growing like weeds and are really beyond the “seedling” stage already) outside to enjoy the weather. Then with the chances of impending storms I ran back over and brought everything…