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May 27, 2007
By: Momoy
Category: Flowers, Plants
I have always had an aversion to spraying pesticides, herbicides, or anything ending with “-cides,” partly out of laziness, partly out of ignorance, but largely out of fear. There was also the example of my mother’s garden, flourishing and feeding us without chemical help.
When I planted the white Rosa Rugosa “Sir Thomas Lipton” in 1996 [...]
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March 26, 2007
By: Momoy
Category: Flowers
Gardeners are famous for recycling. They convert kitchen scraps to compost, stake tomatoes with old pantyhose, and hang unwanted CDs on sticks to spook birds in the berry patch.
But there’s one thing every gardener buys that routinely gets tossed in the trash and buried in a landfill: the plastic flower pots used to grow seedlings.
They’re [...]
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March 12, 2007
By: Momoy
Category: Garden
A lion, a lamb or a penguin?
February has the groundhog and his shadow, while March is usually a tossup between the lion or the lamb. This year has been a roller coaster ride, weatherwise: from one of the mildest early winters on record to weeks of frigid cold and ice that would make penguins feel [...]
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March 12, 2007
By: Momoy
Category: Garden
I’ve never been a big chemical user in my garden, mostly because I want birds, bees and butterflies to visit and thrive.
When you use pesticides to kill off bad bugs, you also eradicate many good ones, including beneficial earthworms. When you use herbicides to get rid of things like clover, you lose a plant that [...]
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March 05, 2007
By: Momoy
Category: Garden
March means spring, even if it doesn’t always feel that way.
Take this month to prepare for the garden and enjoy last fall’s efforts as spring bulbs begin to emerge. Complete tasks that were left unfinished or incorporate a new one such as having your soil tested or adding a compost bin.
It’s the start of a [...]
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