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GARDEN BLOGS: Once and future community gardeners
ITEM: We are officially members of the Woodlawn community garden. If that is even its name. There is no sign, no contact information, nothing formal about it at all, so getting in was a matter...
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GARDEN BLOGS: It’s here. We nearly missed it.
We left 5 days ago in early spring weather, but arrived home late today, the first day of spring, to find the season nearly passed us by. At 84 degrees, this is the 7th straight...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Is it too early?
…to indoctrinate our 10-month-old into the cult of gardening? Besides introducing him to the fun of playing in the dirt (once he gets past the urge to eat it), I can’t wait to get him...
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GARDEN BLOGS: First snow, Chicago
Saturday. Fortunately it melted so that on Sunday I could plant the 20-odd Iris histrioides bulbs that I relocated here and that did not desiccate on the kitchen counter. ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ will be a welcome...
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GARDEN BLOGS: if they can do it…
so can I. Bloom that is, now. Right as the frost is getting serious, when the ratio of gray to sunny feels 20 to 1. What the heck is this tree and why does it...