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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Trees for tomorrow
Yesterday ended with a neighbor stopping by and offering me a few trees for the meadow. He has steadily been reforesting some of his farmland over the years and plants several hundred seedlings each spring, and this year he felt … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, blackberry, cherry, coppice, firewood, grape, maple, meadow, Orchyard, red oak, syrup
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Nearly summer and time for bio-warfare
I had Monday off, and the last forecast I had seen called for it to be cold and wet. That seemed a perfect day to run some errands and then dispose of the accumulated pruning clippings and the pile of … Continue reading
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Tagged blueberry, garden, hardiblue, Japanese beetle, jersey, maple, milky spore, orchard, Orchyard, pruning, tilling, vineyard
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off and running
The impatience of the previous post has been replaced with hectic activity. The forecast is calling for a chance of snow showers later this week with lows in the 20’s, but the last few days with their mixture of warm … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Bramley’s Seedling, golden russet, grafting, grape, orchard, Orchyard, pruning, vineyard
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Impatient for Spring
Spring is arriving – slowly. Today I noticed birds chirping in the middle of the day for the first time this year, and the garden centers are flush with seeds and seed starting supplies. A couple of weeks ago I … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, cherry, Cucumber, okra, Pea, Pumpkin, quince, Seed, Watermelon
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House Vines
One of the images which stays with me from my travels in Germany is the villages along the “German Wine Road” with their grapevines growing up the sides of houses and crossing roads and courtyards overhead. When I first saw … Continue reading
A place for bees
One of the most mesmerizing moments of my life was standing under a crabapple tree in full bloom and being surrounded by the chaotic motions of hundreds of honeybees. Until that point I had always seen bees either in hives … Continue reading
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