Sage Gardens

The mail man just dropped of a nice fat envelope full of seeds from Pine Tree Garden Seeds. I really like Pine Tree becuase they have a broad variety of vegetable, herb and flower seeds, but they come in smaller packages that don’t cost very much. So rather than spending $3.99 on a packet of […]

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In an earlier post I wrote that I was going to re-cover my coldframe greenhouse. And despite a few days delay due to bad weather, I did finally get around to it.
About 10 years ago when I built the greenhouse, I had originally looked into getting a nice glass one, but I didn’t have the […]

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A few days I go I wrote that I knew it was bad luck to starting my planting before March 15th, but I decided to do it anyway because we had such a mild winter. Well yesterday I ordered my seeds and today I planned to re-cover the coldframe greenhouse. So I get out of […]

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I can’t take it anymore. Even though I know it’s bad luck, I’m going to go ahead and start planting vegetables for late spring and summer. (Every time I plant corn or tomatoes before March 15, we get frost, monsoonal rain, plagues of frogs, etc. that invariably wipe the young plants out.)
I’m placing a seed […]

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We haven’t had much rain this winter — less than 3 inches so far — and only a couple of nights of frost (normal is around 14 nights between late december and mid-February). The mild winter has meant two things:

I’ve actually had to water the orchards and herb gardens
All of the flowering plants seem to […]

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Normally I take the winter off and let the gardens go wild. We don’t have bad winters here, but they can be very unpredictable. We’ll get rain and then some weather in the 60’s (high teens for those of you in Celcius-land), which causes everything thing to sprout, followed by several nights of frost which […]

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