By joenesgarden, 8 months and 8 days ago

A Gardening Oops: Landscape Fabric

We've reached the first of the month again. It's time for me to share one of the blunders I've made in my thirty-plus years of planting, pruning, and in-the-soil gardening in Connecticut's zone 6a. I call these first-of-the-month confessions Gardening Oops – or GOOPs for short. It's a monthly meme I started more than two years ago. You can join this confessional. After all we all make mistakes. What's important is learning from them. I share mine hoping you will learn something from my mistakes. After reading my GOOPs for June 2011, you can share a GOOPs of your own.

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By joenesgarden, 9 months and 8 days ago

A Violet Invasion–A Gardening Blunder

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Each spring I adore seeing  purple and white violet blooms poking out of the lawn. The perky flowers of common blue violet (Viola sororia) and the delicate white flowers of Canadian white violet (Viola Canadensis) add a colorful touch to an otherwise sea of green. Since I tend to let nature help design my gardens, there are certain sections where I allow violets and other wildflowers to do their thing.

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By joenesgarden, 10 months and 8 days ago

Bulb blunders–not totally my fault. Still a Gardening Oops?

It's the first of the month … GOOPs Day. For those unfamiliar, GOOPs stands for Gardening Oops. GOOPs Day occurs on the first of each month when I confess a gardening blunder hoping my words might prevent you from repeating my faux pas. Then I ask you to humbly confess one of your GOOPs.

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By joenesgarden, 11 months and 8 days ago

Uncovering winter – Gardening Oops continued

Welcome to  March 2011 … just 19 days till Spring.

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By joenesgarden, 1 year ago

Winter weight – a gardening oops

Welcome February … the month I'd like to settle into winter suspended animation. Tucked nicely into my house-cocoon I'd immerse my thoughts deeply into my gardens, visualizing, creating, and revising ideas for improved soils, better perennial combinations, new shrubs, and fresh-picked sun-drenched vegetables and berries.

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