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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Garden Stories and Memories

Garden Advice: Keep A Close Watch

Tagged With: garden advice, garden mistakes, helpers

Gardening is a very hands-on activity. A recent event brought back some of my own memories and underlined this fact. You might have read on the blog that I have let my good friend develop a garden plot here on my property. If not, the short … [Read more...] about Garden Advice: Keep A Close Watch

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Day in the life

Characteristics Of A Gardener

Tagged With: gardeners

We aren't born gardeners, though many of us are born into a gardening tradition. I was thinking over some of the lessons of a garden, and realized if one pursues growing things as an avocation or a career there are certain qualities developed over … [Read more...] about Characteristics Of A Gardener

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Garden Stories and Memories

When Is Garden Knowledge “Extensive”?

Tagged With: expert gardening, gardening skills, plant identification

Thomas Jefferson wrote to Charles Wilson Peale in a letter of August 20, 1811, "...tho’ an old man, I am but a young gardener.” It is an observation I often think upon. I always feel I am in the apprentice stage, but recently I came upon an … [Read more...] about When Is Garden Knowledge “Extensive”?

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Day in the life

Threats Of Winter, But Spring-Like

Tagged With: garden plans, late winter, signs of spring

  This "winter" we had some threats that it would become its usual blustery self, but it turned out to be just wind. When it threatened winter I took a short video- but that was the last of it. Every other "snowfall" has immediately … [Read more...] about Threats Of Winter, But Spring-Like

Bantam chickens

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: the rural story

Chickenhawk Attack!

Tagged With: chickens, predators

Yes, things have gotten exciting around here, and not in a good way. Yesterday I was working on my blogs, when the distressed squawking of my poor Bantams got my slow, old body coming to the rescue. Just in time to see a really large hawk front, … [Read more...] about Chickenhawk Attack!

my old house forty years later

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Garden Stories and Memories

Looking Back: The Renter’s Garden

Tagged With: beginning gardening, looking back, urban gardening

I've been thinking back over my "garden career" and waxing nostalgic. Thought of recording some of the evolution of past experiences in gardening. For me, the gardens and the entire viewpoint of it have slowly changed over time. At its peak, my … [Read more...] about Looking Back: The Renter’s Garden

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: the rural story

Thought of Raising Peafowl?

Tagged With: chickens

You can raise your own peacock - Facts about these beautiful and useful birds That's right, Peacocks! Or peahens, actually.... Breeds available are the Indian or Blue Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, or the Javan or Green Peafowl, Pavo muticus. The … [Read more...] about Thought of Raising Peafowl?

september flowers

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Day in the life

Unusual Becomes The Usual

Tagged With: garden report, weather report

September or August Revisited? As we rolled into September, the weather switched seasons. Now it feel like the dog days of summer with 90 degree temperatures, sticky 100% humidity and thunderstorms. It is never what you expect, is it? Well, … [Read more...] about Unusual Becomes The Usual

cornfield

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Day in the life

It Is More Than Normal

Tagged With: Ohio, rainy weather, weather report

Whether it has been hot, cool, or rainy (and Ohio has been very rainy), what you can say about the weather so far this summer is that it is more than normal. When you get a little more than normal of anything... you sort of get concerned about the … [Read more...] about It Is More Than Normal

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Day in the life, My Place, spring

My Rural Life

Tagged With: chickens, my garden, rural

My husband and I bought and started homesteading this place in the mid 1980's. I had no skills, and plenty of dreams. I never managed to have that flock of sheep I envisioned, but instead raised a flock of children. That became my main crop. We … [Read more...] about My Rural Life

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I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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