Category: Gardening
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Garden Update – Mo Bugs
Saturday I arrived to find the Cantaloupes, thriving and untouched by the bugs. Unfortunately the Squash and Zucchini I had tried to rescue were done for. I pulled their corpses from the ground and witnessed hundreds of June bugs emerge from under the straw and begin to scamper up the pepper plants. I considered what…
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Garden Update – Bugs
Just as I was entering the season of harvest I arrived to check on the garden and saw three of the Zucchini plants decimated and prostrate, yellow and brown and full of bugs. June bugs! Hundreds of them. I didn’t get any good pictures of the bugs because when I saw what was going on…
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Garden Update
Everything is thriving with me having little to do with it. I pruned some spent leaves, did a little weeding, tied the rambling tomato vines, and harvested what was ready. Now begins the season of harvest. It arrived without my intervention or intention. I am only the sower not that which makes it all…
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The Acorn and the Oak
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in Change, child, Creativity, Ego, Faith, Gardening, Legacy Archive, Nature, Perspective, Poetry, Seeds, Self, Spirituality, Spoken-Word, UncategorizedStepping out into a broader space Leaving behind the familiar comforts of the rut But, there I held sway, I was the master Predictable, easy, except for the slow withering of my soul Did my tricks to get my treats But the former was confining and I had out grown it Like a plant in…
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Garden Update – Suckers
Everything has really taken off. The rain and sun and soil have converted tiny seedlings into adolescent, robust plants. They are strong and green and growing. The tomatoes have grown almost a foot since last week. One of the issues with gardening in a small space is managing the boundaries of each plant. They have…