Sage Gardens

Question: how long does it take to go from verdant garden

to overgrown weedpatch?

Answer: about 28 days.
As promised my late summer garden skills (read: lazy) have ushered all of the gardens’ quick decent from lush landscapes to overgrown, weedy jungles. The worst part is that I do the same thing every year. I get a great […]

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Okay, so a few people have written to tell me that our new ChickenCam was placed too high up to clearly see all the good chicken action. So by popular demand I have moved the camera down into the yard where it’s a lot closer to the birds.
Now you’ll be able to see the […]

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Yes sir, we have vegetables sprouting

It’s about time!

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As I’ve mentioned before, I prefer to let the gardens go wild during the winter months. This makes it easy for me when the weather is cold and ugly (and so are the plants), but it means everything looks like a battle field (which it pretty much is–me vs. weeds) when it comes time to […]

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Ok, finally got some seeds in the dirt in the greenhouse.
What did I plant? Well, pretty much all the seeds I got from Pinetree Garden Seeds with the exception of the peppers and some of the tomatoes (I think it’s still too cold at night and they won’t germinate. Better to wait a couple more […]

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Blah….
Not only has it be raining almost non-stop this month, but now we’ve hit a cold snap. I can’t remember the last time we had freezing weather in March (our typical last day of frost is February 15), but temps have actually dipped into the low 30s / upper 20s four nights in a row.
My […]

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