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07.05.14 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Ready To Eat Local? How About Slow Gardening?

Featured + Food + gardening tips

Go Slow Slow Food and Slow Gardening are related. What is slow food you ask? Sourcing your ingredients locally and using high quality is the gist of it. Growing your own would be a part of it, but patronizing the farmer’s markets and encouraging your grocer’s to supply locally produced products would be part of…

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14.03.14 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Seeds For Trial Garden

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A few of the seeds that were sent to me This year I received seeds to trial in my gardens from American Meadows. They arrived this last week, and the weather is finally warming up so that I can get ready to plant them. Exciting, is it not? I have a large amount that were…

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16.07.13 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Globe Thistles And Other Nice Looking Xeriscape Plants

About Flowers + Featured + July

The last post was about thistles, since I had been hard at work in the garden getting rid of as many as I possibly could manage, but there are lovely garden flowers that have thistle characteristics without their tendency to elbow everything else out. Long ago, when planting my first garden on Glen Echo (isn’t…

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