By joenesgarden, 1 year and 1 month ago

Past, present, and future

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, December 15, 2010, the highly popular blog meme hosted at May Dreams Gardens where Carol shares photos and commentary on the current blooms in her gardens and asks others to do the same.

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By joenesgarden, 1 year and 4 months ago

Simple autumn pleasures – drying herbs.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA One of the most pleasurable tasks in the autumn garden is gathering and preserving herbs. The gathering part is easy. The preserving part can be, too.

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By joenesgarden, 2 years and 4 months ago

Pre-frost action

A quick walk through the yard today added urgency to my pre-frost list of to-dos.  Last night's temperature dropped low enough to slightly burn the top edges of a cherry tomato plant - the temperature at 6:30 am was 39 degrees – so a good hard freeze is not too far off.  So what's done and what's left on my to do list? 

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