Lynn
I'm a recent transplant from the Southwest experiencing my second full-length Finger Lakes area winter. So I'm learning a whole new plant vocabulary and trying new things I've never been able to grow. Aside from community plots in Austin, TX, this is my first garden of any real size, so I'm also having fun with design possibilities heretofore out of reach. I'm eagerly anticipating the appearance of hundreds of fall-planted bulbs and shoots from our young perrenial garden.
We love eating straight out of the garden all summer, so lots of work is devoted to planning, tending, and harvesting a 350 sq ft veg plot. Our house is a small former farm hand's house on a country road in Slaterville Springs, and the garden style that's emerging is a loose, native-based cottage garden: a mix of edibles, color, and hardy growers who will stand up to a novice's hand and Zone 5 winters. I write about it and post photographs on my blog, Sin City to Slaterville .
Recent Blog Posts
CNY Blooms, a garden show this week
March 01, 2010 by Lynn
Filed under Garden Blogs
News flash: upstate NY has its own flower and garden show, and it’s this week in Syracuse! There will be “10-12 competition gardens, local college participation, and garden clubs. With an emphasis on education, there will be many horticulturally relevant seminars and presentations.” Tickets are a reasonable 10 bucks per day or 20 for a weekend [...]
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soundtrack for a Sunday sowing seeds
February 28, 2010 by Lynn
Filed under Garden Blogs
It’s a sluggish Sunday, heavy wet snow is sliding off the branches, and we’re all in danger of sliding onto the couch for the duration. Putting seeds in baggies in the kitchen is not exactly gardening, but I’m making myself do it. Thank God there’s Junior Brown. oh, that’s right, you’re not from Texas. Filed under: music [...]
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