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Vineyard Gardener
Staying a Step Ahead of Mother Nature
Lynne Irons
Brrr . . . what a chilly weekend, but typical of spring on the Vineyard. We get a few days of sun and warmth as a little tease followed by a reminder...
11:03 am, April 29, 2014
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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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