Community Garden Bed

Garden Notes

I feel like I’m a little behind in garden updates, but things were just kind of starting for while, and then it got hot.   So things are really chugging along at the moment, but I’m not necessarily sticking around to get pictures.   It’s more quick weeding, watering, and getting the heck back out of the […]

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books

Temperate Garden Plant Families – Peter Goldblatt and John C. Manning

The book touches on the plant families that are important for agriculture and gardening in temperate zones, though it’ll touch on which ones have cross over into tropical zones. Since I do track the families of the flowers I’m labeling for Wayside Flowers, it’s interesting to me to see how the family relationships are classified

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Elderflowers

Garden Notes

Here’s today’s project.    The food forest attached to the community garden has two beautiful elder shrubs.     I was out at around 8:00 this morning to beat the heat and humidity.   I pulled off 18 heads, and you wouldn’t even know I was there. Making a sugar syrup was not my idea of the

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