2004
Message 47 of 56 in Discussion
From: MSN NicknameGreen_Side_Up Sent: 9/6/2004 8:38 AM
Sunday, did some serious weeding & raking. John helped. Turned compost but had to wait til evening becasue so many bees were working on the goldenrod that surrounds the compost bins!

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From: MSN NicknameGreen_Side_Up Sent: 9/10/2004 7:09 PM
Friday, turned compost a couple of days late. It still isn't ready. Weeded a little around the lysomachia, pulled out a few more of that new weed that I hadn't seen in there before, the tiny sunflower-ish one. There is some evening primrose in there as well, which I had not seen in previous years.

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From: MSN NicknameGreen_Side_Up Sent: 10/8/2004 6:06 PM
Finished harvesting the sweet potatoes and planted 50 bulbs from Johnny's. It's the "organic collection", 10 each of white Silber Dollar tulip; yellow tete a tete narcissus; red Ile de France tulip; yellow yokohana tulip; yellow dutch master narcissus. I mixed them all up & covered with screening so maybe they won't get stolen by squirrels.

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From: MSN NicknameGreen_Side_Up Sent: 10/26/2004 10:31 AM
Finally planted the bulbs that were a gift from OES - probably 2 weeks later than I should have. There were some alpine rosy bells which I put in with the yellow bleeding heart; and daffodils, blue grape hyacinth, tulips, jumbo crocus and a few tall dutch iris, all in the shade bed.
Now that the bees are gone and I can get out there, I brought the rest of the Egyptian walking onions out to the front yard - found a huge crop of scallions ready that I would not have noticed (!) and will plant some angelicas in their place. I am also planning to add some activator to the compost today and get it emptied by this weekend.

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Sent: 11/7/2004 9:49 AM
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From: MSN NicknameGreen_Side_Up Sent: 11/7/2004 9:58 AM
To buy for next year: anthemis (marguerite daisy) Also pink yarrow. I will want comfrey for the compost heap, sweet cecily for the name garden, more primulas from Hedgehog, and I think I might use some silver mound artemesia.

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Sent: 11/7/2004 9:59 AM
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From: MSN NicknameGreen_Side_Up Sent: 11/8/2004 12:42 PM
Monday, relocated the compost bins & started a new one. Instead of doing it as a batch, I'll just keep adding til they're full and go from there.

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From: MSN NicknameAdmin_Kathy Sent: 11/25/2004 8:59 AM
I can't believe I still have good scallions. Mostly have just been chopping leaves. Steve had a good idea to make the leaf chopper stationery, so I secured it to a stepladder with bungee cords and now I just rake the leaves into it. Much easier on the forearms and no bending at all.

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From: MSN NicknameGreen_Side_Up Sent: 12/13/2004 10:25 AM
The compost is happily cooking away, freezing and thawing and freezing some more... we're praying for more snow to cloak our veggie and flower beds for the long winter's sleep... while visions of seed catalogs dance in our heads! Night Night til 2005!