Spohr Gardens – Falmouth, ME
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Heritage Museum and Gardens – Sandwich, MA
This is a neat place to visit in Cape Cod – not only are there gardens, but there’s a collection of antique cars, and a few art galleries scattered about the grounds. They also have a really cool hidden children’s garden, and some great programs, even if it does mean that the adults are being
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Weekly Wildflowers – Molly Stark Trail, VT
The Molly Stark Trail is the much more poetic name for Route 9 over the mountains in Vermont. These pictures were from a number of stops on our way from Bennington to Wilmington. Locations included: Truck Chain Stop, BenningtonSeveral Green Mountain National Forest pull outs, WoodfordProspect Mountain Ski Area, Woodford Bonus stop in Milford, NH,
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Lake George, NY
A little light on the pictures, because we were there for a family reunion (BF’s family), but last weekend, we were in Lake George, on an overcast day that turned out to be exactly what we needed.
Garden Notes
The community garden plot is definitely looking lush. In addition to the crazy zucchini, a bunch of other produce is coming along. Here’s one of the fairy eggplants coming along. It has huge flowers, bigger than the Asian variety that I’m also growing, which will have bigger fruit. I can totally
The Vegetable Attached to a Tardis, and other Harvest Notes
And lo, the deluge of zucchini has begun. This was the crop last Wednesday. I got another one of about the same size on Friday morning – I’d made a point to stop because were were going away for the next two nights. I left it with nothing of any
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Purple Flowering Raspberry
Purple Flower Raspberry Rubus odoratus Other names: Thimbleberry, Flowering Raspberry, Virginia Raspberry Family: Rosaceae (Rose Family) Range: Eastern US and Canada Native: Native Native Habitat: Wooded areas Bloom Time: June through August Notes: The fruit is edible, but is drier and more crumbly than other raspberries and blackberries, so this plant is generally grown in
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Garden Notes
I added the second tier of tomato cages today – probably should have done that a couple of weeks ago. I ended up tying several large stems to various places outside the cages to keep them corralled. Definitely need to keep track of the timing better for next year. It’s a good thing