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Up and Down Planting | Stuff Grows on Top and Bottom of These Planters

Written on May 26, 2011 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Flowers

UP and DOWN planters with plants coming out top and bottom don’t do well with tomatoes despite advertisement. A Wandering Jew vine is having a try at it this year. Photos

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Six Little Hollyhocks All in a Row

Written on May 23, 2011 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Flowers

Young Hollyhock plants freshly planted and ready for summer. They have their toes nested in worm castings from the vermicomposting project. The first in documentation of establishing a hollyhock bed.

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Last Summer’s Baby Chicks are This Summer’s Egg Factories

Written on May 21, 2011 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Chickens

Backyard Black Austrolorps give us eggs and pleasant chores in exchange for their care. They are popular with the neighbors because of the lovely brown eggs. Images of Jasper the rooster and some of the lovely black hens.

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Blackberry Winter | Cold Snap as Wild Blackberries Bloom

Written on May 15, 2011 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Ozarks

A neighboring nursery, Wolf Creek Nursery, with generations of experience gardening in the Ozarks gave me the expression for the chill — Blackberry Winter. We have a few wild blackberries. Do you have berries in your garden?

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The Peonies are Next for the Spring Flower Parade

Written on May 4, 2011 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Flowers

Our peonies are the very old-fashioned ones. We have three colors of pink, but not a really dark ruby one that was always a favorite at my childhood home. The Peonies page at The Legacy Garden’s website has been updated this week

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Dreamin’ About a Greenhouse?

Written on November 13, 2010 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Uncategorized

Garden dreams are part of the winter season and often get a chance to become reality by summer if we dreamed ‘right’.

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Chickens are Growing FAST! | Can tell boys from girls now

Written on November 8, 2010 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Chickens

The black Australorp chickens which were hatched in July are growing fine. A small batch of pullets from Cackle Hatchery all lived. We have 26 birds, looks like three are roosters, but its hard to tell when the fluffy little rascals pop out of the shell. We are fine with the selection.

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Winter Plans for Indoor/Outdoor Plants

Written on November 8, 2010 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Flowers

There were just a few too many plants that wanted to come inside for protection from even the sorta mild Ozarks winter. I had to give in.

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Here Comes Da Frost!

Written on October 28, 2010 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Flowers

The day has come for FROST and the end of the garden and the flowers. A few plants are going to try living inside for the winter. If they can just stay alive for the next 4-5 months, we will have some grand stuff in the shade garden again.

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Coffee Grounds and Kitchen Garbage Become Dirt

Written on October 16, 2010 by Richard & JudyAnn Lorenz in Compost, Uncategorized

Redworms thrive on the microbes of deteriorating kitchen garbage. Coffee grounds, filters, tea bags, loose tea, peelings of all types, scrapings and paper provide organic nutrition that the worms turn into wonderful black dirt.

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