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Springing Forth
Lynne Irons
I have some opium poppies, bachelor buttons and nigella coming up in the vegetable garden. If I did not know them, they would get raked up with the...
5:32 pm, April 23, 2014
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Spring Begins to Show
Lynne Irons
Here it is Palm Sunday and my forsythia is beginning to show some yellow. I have no facts, but it seems particularly late.
2:27 pm, April 15, 2014
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Miles to Go Before I Rake
Lynne Irons
My wonderful crew of young people and I spent all last week moving mountains of wood chips, compost and loam with wheelbarrows. It hurt midweek to...
12:29 pm, April 9, 2014
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Chasing Chickens in the Wind
Lynne Irons
When Violet and I arrived home after dark in the pouring (and I mean pouring) rain we discovered the hen house door had blown shut. None of the...
11:13 am, April 1, 2014
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Spring Is Here, Winter Won’t Leave
Lynne Irons
Winter simply is not ready to let go. As I continue to plant like a crazy person, I take comfort in the fact that Polly Hill started the arboretum...
11:59 am, March 25, 2014
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Spring Forward with Usual Traditions
Lynne Irons
How interesting that our traditions bind us to our past. Most years I try to plant a few potatoes on St. Patrick’s Day to have some sort of...
11:02 am, March 18, 2014
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Hoping For Spring Eternally
Lynne Irons
I managed to kill several flats of onion seedlings. I put them outdoors into an unheated hoop house too early. I can’t decide if I froze them or...
4:43 pm, March 11, 2014
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Winter Reading Brings Kernel of Truth
Lynne Irons
I’ve been catching up on my reading, actually getting to sections of the newspaper I usually skim.
12:43 pm, March 4, 2014
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Work in Winter's Reprieve
Lynne Irons
With a gate out of commission, the chickens have had their way with the property. The last straw was finding broken hellebores flowers.
2:19 pm, February 25, 2014
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Freezer Pleasers
Lynne Irons
I hate to buy fresh produce when I can grow anything on my own. We should all be thinking along these lines. Besides shoveling and tending the...
12:23 pm, February 18, 2014
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Preserving the Peabody Gazebo
Lynne Irons
Sam Thoron provides interesting information on the lovely gazebo on the grounds of the Dr. Daniel Fisher House.
12:20 pm, February 12, 2014
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The Garden in Winter
Lynne Irons
On Jan. 31, we had 10 hours of sun again. It’s been since Nov. 10 that we had that much daylight. Ten hours is really the maximum light required for...
10:23 am, February 4, 2014
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