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Unrake My Yard (With Apologies to Joe Cocker)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by literarylee

Recently my wife and I put up a greenhouse in our backyard. It’s pretty cool, or should I say, at least on sunny days now in February, warm. It’s eight feet by twelve and set on an angle relative to … Continue reading →

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Sunset Okra Surprise

Posted on June 14, 2012 by literarylee

Sounds like the name of a dish: Sunset Okra Surprise, like something a southern chef might have concocted.   It’s what delighted us yesterday at dusk. We were hoping for a post-supper, post-Jeopardy wave of calm to wash over us but no, we knew … Continue reading →

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Our Own Work / Our Own Sustenance

Posted on September 4, 2011 by literarylee

We’ve been putting some of our harvest by over the last few weeks, preserving it for use this winter and to give as Christmas gifts.  My wife used a slew of the many, many tomatoes that ripened all at once and made fifteen pints of tomato chutney, … Continue reading →

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Late Summer Beans/ Late Summer Man

Posted on September 2, 2011 by literarylee

What the heck! Nineteen days ’till the autumnal equinox, one of two dates on the calendar with equal doses of night and day.  From the first one on March 21, the days continued getting longer, warmer, the air full of … Continue reading →

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Buckets o’ Bounty Revisited

Posted on August 12, 2011 by literarylee

I picked my third bucket of tomatoes the other night.  I really can’t tell you just how pleased I am about it.  My first two years gardening at Smith, the tomatoes were only o.k., one year even anemic, six plants … Continue reading →

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Speed Gardening!

Posted on June 2, 2011 by literarylee

A nagging malaise accompanied me home from work today.  I didn’t know why or what it wanted with me.  It just was. For the third blazing hot day in a row my poor gardens, Smith, Jones and the Lorelei, were … Continue reading →

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Got the Worm!

Posted on May 11, 2011 by literarylee

Up a little after five this morning, kilted, booted, and out the front door.  You can guess what I did.  I succumbed to the urge to enlarge the Lorelei just a little bit more. I added, oh, probably another 18-24 inches to the … Continue reading →

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The Healing Green of Sprouts Under Lights

Posted on April 1, 2011 by literarylee

March 13, 2010 I moved the lights up one link in the chain that suspends it over the beautiful, green, increasingly lush young plants.  Twelve one inch high smokey green cabbage plants stand on the far right side.  Each plant’s … Continue reading →

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Motley Guard Detail

Posted on March 31, 2011 by literarylee
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Garden Notes 3/26

Posted on March 27, 2011 by literarylee

Snow expected tonight.  Still agog.  Covered lettuce, spinach, radishes, bok choi in Jones with plastic row covers.  Conversely and humorously planted seven lettuce seedlings in Smith hours before predicted snow but didn’t cover those at all.  Been sitting out all … Continue reading →

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