back yard

Garden Notes

My yard is so close to being snow free!!     So last weekend, my big project was to prune out the poor, winter blasted hollies.    You can see all the sticks I got out, and the final result above.     This week, I invested in some holly food, and also mulched them

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seed starting

Garden Notes

So in the depths of February, in the worst of the cold, I got a Burpee’s enewsletter with free seed shipping.   You can imagine what happened next.    I mean, I pretty much had SAD at that point. I’ve not done seed starting before because of space considerations, and what light I have available.

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snow banks

Spring!

The snowbanks are shrinking!    It’s still a little depressing in the back yard, but it’s getting better.    I can actually see bare ground back there now.     Heck, if you look really, really carefully below, you can see the composter sticking out of the large front snow bank.   (You can totally

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