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Life's a Garden: Zone Pushers
By Allen Martinson, 992 Reads
Mon, 07/19/2021 - 11:00 AM
The past couple weeks I have had the opportunity to do a little traveling. I have visited two very different planting zones that show what a difference zones can make. I have traveled to Zone Nine in Thibodaux, La. and to Zone Four in Wausau, Wis.
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Life's a Garden: Zone Pushers
By Allen Martinson, 992 Reads
Mon, 07/19/2021 - 11:00 AM
The past couple weeks I have had the opportunity to do a little traveling. I have visited two very different planting zones that show what a difference zones can make. I have traveled to Zone Nine in Thibodaux, La. and to Zone Four in Wausau, Wis.
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Life's a Garden: Whistle while you work until the copperhead shows up....
By Allen Martinson, 1,722 Reads
Mon, 07/12/2021 - 06:00 PM
This past weekend Mimi and I headed up to the Ozarks to visit with Mimi’s mother. This turned out to be the exact same weekend we visited last year when my son Max installed a drip irrigation system for all of the gorgeous pots at my mother-in-law’s retreat.
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Life's a Garden: Mascara is Running — Time for Frequent Flower Miles
By Allen Martinson, 2,384 Reads
Mon, 07/05/2021 - 06:00 PM
As we move into July, I realize that we have had a nice, long spring, like one for the books. It’s not every spring that we can start gardening in late February and keep on gardening right into July. Our rainfall has been normal, and our temperatures have been a little on the cool side, but I think that is probably coming to an end.
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Life's a Garden: Diddling the Berries
By Allen Martinson, 2,088 Reads
Mon, 06/28/2021 - 08:00 AM
Last week, a buddy of mine told me he knew where the holy grail of blackberries were growing. Blackberries happen to be my all time favorite of all produce. Blackberry jam, cobbler, glaze… you name it, if it’s got blackberries in it, I’m having some.
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More Beach, Less Grass
By Allen Martinson, 4,013 Reads
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 02:50 PM
Mimi and I sneaked out of town for four glorious days on the beach last week. One of our closest friends owns a spectacular home at Rosemary Beach in Florida. She and her daughter, a close friend of Mia’s, were going to stay a while and invited us in for the front side of their trip.
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What a Difference a Year Makes
By Allen Martinson, 6,673 Reads
Sun, 06/13/2021 - 01:30 AM
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Life's a Garden: There’s No Place Like Home
By Allen Martinson, 2,376 Reads
Thu, 05/27/2021 - 12:39 PM
We are in our last week of May. Memorial Day gives us a long weekend to prepare for June and everything that comes along with June. It’s been a nice and long spring, relatively cool with just enough rain to keep the plants pretty squared away.
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Life's a Garden: The Great Border Incident
By Allen Martinson, 3,786 Reads
Fri, 05/21/2021 - 10:19 AM
I think it has been long enough after the winter storm to report on what the outcome has caused. At first, it looked pretty bad. The Cinnamon Girl Distylliums all over town looked like they were going to bite the dust.
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Life's a Garden: Go Time!
By Allen Martinson, 2,627 Reads
Sat, 05/01/2021 - 10:00 AM
Today it really felt like spring has sprung. I’m writing this article the day after the 40 degree night on the 23rd of April. That is awfully late for a 40 degree night. There are a lot of people who have found the cascading vincas by now. We have people on wait lists for their flats of cascading vinca for a good reason.
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