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The First Paragraphs of Marigold Man

Posted on November 2, 2011 by literarylee

(I’m not going to do this often during November, but here are the first few paragraphs, the first 990 words of Marigold Man.  I confess I edited them, something I won’t have time to do, can’t take the time to … Continue reading →

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Garden Mystery Solved

Posted on October 18, 2011 by literarylee

Last Christmas my aunt, who works in a garden shop, gave me a brown paper bag full of expired seeds, packets packaged to be sold in 2010.  Never mind that most seeds are viable for two, three, four years and … Continue reading →

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Tree Seed Season: A Million Bursts of Life

Posted on May 7, 2011 by literarylee

Life muscles on, fights to propagate, to reproduce itself.  It won’t take no for an answer, even when that no is the pavement and asphalt and more people than the city hardly knows what to do with.  Life’s insistent shout … Continue reading →

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The Discipline of Planting Seeds

Posted on April 30, 2011 by literarylee

(I wrote this last year but it suits for this one too, though the cast of characters is a little different: fewer and later planted peas, less bok choi, added broccoli.) Early May 2010 Saturday at the market and I … Continue reading →

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I Declare the Garden Produce Eating Season Officially Underway

Posted on April 23, 2011 by literarylee

April 22, 2011 We’ve been eating red leaf lettuce and spinach I planted in the Lorelei for several weeks now, yet I didn’t feel like we were really eating produce from the garden.  Is that odd?  I think I was … Continue reading →

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One way or another

Posted on April 6, 2011 by literarylee

Over the last few weeks I’ve been planting warm weather plant seeds.  I was watering the flats one evening and noticed a little green shoot peeking up at me from a place I wouldn’t have expected it.  While planting 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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Trouble in (my garden) Paradise

Posted on March 31, 2011 by literarylee

Seed Situation O.K. not trouble, necessarily, but issues.  Like seeds I’m starting.  Some are doing well.  I’ll have plenty of tomatoes, for example.  Also basil, cilantro, and ground cherries.  However, two that I care about a lot, eggplant and peppers, … Continue reading →

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Wanton Optimism Update (With a piece of humble pie on the side)

Posted on February 27, 2011 by literarylee

Yeah, right.  Spinach!  They’re probably just little weeds, I thought. My wife called me Friday.  I was at work and she was at Jones, one of my two gardens.  She wanted to know if there was anything she could do … Continue reading →

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Drinks on Wheels

Posted on February 24, 2011 by literarylee

Call me water boy. A colloquial way of describing someone else doing a tough task that others benefit from is to say that person is carrying the water.  On Sunday afternoon, I was that guy.  And, not only did I … Continue reading →

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