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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)S E A S O N A L notes and musings, with relevant links 12 Jun 04 Summer ruined They are finally repaving our street AND putting in new sidewalks. We are overdue for both, but there are two bad aspects to this. First, every day, nearly all day long, there are dozens of trucks, earth movers and diggers, plus (it appears) the pickup trucks the workers came to work in... 20 Mar 04 Snow .... snow .... It doesn't exactly feel like March. We have had several snow storms over the past week and the temperature has been below freezing.However, as snowstorms go, these have been very mild. I'm sure part of the reason is the longer day... 15 Feb 04 Smell the dirt I was looking at a garden magazine that asked customers to submit their favorite sight of spring. For me, it's not a sight, it's a smell and a feel. When the weather warms up above freezing for a little while, you can smell the thawing soil... 3 Jan 04 Tower Hill Botanical Garden We drove to Worcester, Mass. today to see the relatively new botanical garden which is a project of the Worcester county Horticultural Society. It was winter of course, so nothing in bloom. And yet, as I hped they have a good winter garden, with dark and bright woods, nice tree shapes, glowing berries and so on... 2 Jan 04 Ahhh! fixed at last! Can it be? somehow I have fixed this -- I have been unable to post to this blog since October.There was an entry (Wed. Dec. 31), a more or less random set of characters. which was not a test, but rather our ginger cat, Morris, striking out on a trek across the keyboard en route to the top of my computer box, a spot he favors for napping in a sociable way... 4 Nov 03 test test 2... 19 Oct 03 Hibiscus: the Extrovert My friend M. says he will share his gardening observations in this space now and then. Well, I suggested he start a garden blog, but he demurred, as follows:As a matter of fact, I have always enjoyed the 'agricultural' side of life... 18 Oct 03 Bird-feeding tip To foil the squirrel who eats a weeks worth of bird seed in an hour or so, Gardener's Supply suggests mixing the seed with hot pepper powder. The birds don't taste it at all, but the squirrels will avoid it like the plague... 16 Oct 03 Post heat wave: the Euro weather report A friend living in the second smallest independent state in the world writes: After Europe's Heat wave which, from a gardening point of view only, destroyed baclony plants, window boxes and gardens and their shrubs, some of those poor plants are struggling to come back to greenery and flower... 9 Oct 03 OctoBrr October is full upon us and the leaf fall is going on in earnest. we've ahd some very crisp cool nights. Two of our cats, the adult ones, prefer to stay out overnight now.Surprisingly (to me) my tomato plants, which I staked up better and added dirt to about 5 weeks ago when it first began to cool off, have been doing quite well...
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