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The Seedy Gardener: Miracle Marigolds
As mentioned in my previous marigold blogs, we are embarking on an experiment to answer the question: what is the best or easiest way to...
karen lyons
Feb 21, 20242 min read
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The Seedy Gardener: Marigolds on My Windowsill
As mentioned in my Milk Jug Marigolds blog, we are embarking on an experiment to answer the question: what is the best or easiest way to...
karen lyons
Feb 21, 20242 min read
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The Seedy Gardener: Milk Jug Marigolds
With the help of our new trainees and the plant propagation lab observers, we are embarking on an experiment to answer the question: ...
karen lyons
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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The President
No, not of the United States, but, rather of our Rockbridge County Master Gardener Association. HEADLINE: “MG Nominating Committee fails...
Jim Davis
Aug 31, 20212 min read
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OFF RECORD
(AKA “Rocket 88”) My introduction to recorded music was really a non experience. My family moved to a rental house in Augusta, Georgia...
Jim Davis
Jul 14, 20213 min read
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Two Reviews
By chance I have discovered a book and also an article very interesting to me as a gardener and a lover of nature. The book, a...
Jim Davis
Jan 25, 20213 min read
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A Christmas Carol
My family, what is left of it, is scattered across the country, from Alabama to Texas to Hawaii, so it seemed only natural early on that...
Jim Davis
Dec 16, 20203 min read
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Let There Not be Light
Well, not too much, anyway. Many years ago, a local organization (I believe it was Rockbridge Historical Foundation) convinced many...
Jim Davis
Nov 24, 20202 min read
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Books on Trees
I’m aware that books don’t grow on trees, although one of my regular readers wishes they did. I don’t know about the other two readers....
Jim Davis
Oct 11, 20203 min read
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THE WEDDING WITH KUDZU
In the 1940s, my father in law, an avid fisher, built a fine house on Burwells Bay, near the mouth of the James River. When my son was...
Jim Davis
Aug 4, 20203 min read
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Photographing Your Garden
I have owned a camera since I was twelve years old, and in the dark bathroom even learned to develop and print my film. Later I wanted to...
Jim Davis
May 19, 20204 min read
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LANDSCAPING
The word landscaping always conveyed to me something far too elaborate that one would find on an eighteenth-century French or Italian...
Jim Davis
Apr 22, 20203 min read
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Winter Garden
My title may sound like the name of a ski resort, but I mean only to suggest what might go on in a garden during winter. What? Nothing?...
Jim Davis
Feb 18, 20202 min read
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Concerning Houseplants
My first house plant was a pineapple. I must have read some place that it was possible to root the top of the plant, below the leaves,...
Jim Davis
Oct 10, 20193 min read
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The Seedy Gardener: May musings
OK, so my cut flower garden doesn't quite resemble that of Lisa Ziegler. Maybe it's because I didn't have Grandpa conditioning my soil...
karen lyons
May 31, 20191 min read
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The Seedy Gardener: April Thanksgiving
As April draws to a close, I just wanted to share my appreciation for the seeds shared at our January Seed Swap and my excitement over...
karen lyons
May 1, 20191 min read
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WORDS CELEBRATING ARBOR DAY, APRIL 24th
by Jim Davis The poet Wordsworth was probably right. The way we look at nature changes as we grow up. Our early innocence is full of...
Jim Davis
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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