Gardening

I sat out on the deck in our back yard the other day looking around the garden. I could not for the life of me figure out where to begin. “Just pick something and start with that,” Graham suggested. “You have to start somewhere!” That was easy for him to say. “Why don’t...
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Woo boy, what with being away for most of last week and the weather being unseasonably cool and just plain unpleasant lately, the back yard has become a real chore to contend with. Normally I don’t refer to gardening as a “chore,” but there are enough tasks that have to be done...
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I’ve just spent an hour doing something in the garden that, until now, has seemed somewhat unnatural to me: I’ve been ripping out plants. Inspired by the neighbour of my parents, whose lovely back yard perennial garden seems perpetually free of weeds (each of her mature perennial plants standing proudly in its place, unencumbered by...
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Our back yard and gardens have changed so much over the last few years. This is a photograph I took out of our bedroom window the first summer I lived with Graham in our house.  I was trying out square foot gardening, which seems just ridiculous in retrospect, seeing as there was so much space! ...
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Yesterday I watched another episode of Recreating Eden. If you’ve never seen the show, and you get the channel (VisionTV here in Canada), I highly recommend watching. Some of the episodes are about grand, formal, meticulously groomed gardens, and some are community plots or back yard gardeners. The show’s official website...
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