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Going to Seed

July 31, 2018 by Lorene Edwards Forkner in Archive, Gardener

What if you could bank a bit of summer; put by a lucky charm guaranteed to bring back garden fresh flavor and kitchen wonder next year? 

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July 31, 2018 /Lorene Edwards Forkner
fall, seeds
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Chasing Violets

July 31, 2018 by Lorene Edwards Forkner in Archive, Gardener

The (admittedly weedy) sweet violets are blooming. They are exceptionally fragrant. I like them. 

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July 31, 2018 /Lorene Edwards Forkner
winter, violets, fragrant plants
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Critter Control

July 31, 2018 by Lorene Edwards Forkner in Archive, Gardener

Nothing is more annoying than discovering something other than ourselves is eating its way through the vegetable patch.

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July 31, 2018 /Lorene Edwards Forkner
organic gardening, pest control, spring
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Making Hay

July 31, 2018 by Lorene Edwards Forkner in Archive, Gardener

I’m traveling beneath a languid and lazy blue sky.  On either side of the nearly deserted two lane road, thousands of acres of grassland clothe undulating hills and hollows; a simple, soothing landscape reduced to big sky and a blue highway navigating an inland sea of rippling corduroy fields. 

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July 31, 2018 /Lorene Edwards Forkner
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