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26.09.08 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

September’s Garden Tips

garden chores + gardening tips + September

This is just to record the garden tips from my sidebar, which otherwise will disappear when I replace the info with timely seasonal hints. “September is the best time to transplant established peonies. Begin by cutting the peony stems near ground level. Then carefully dig around and under each plant. Try to retain as much…

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24.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

5 Tips to Improve Clay Soil

garden chores + Garden soil + gardening tips

This page has moved. It can be found @ Ilona’s Garden: 5 Tips To Improve Clay Soil, along with other informative posts on soil improvement. But if you want only one really important tip for working with clay soil, it is this: Don’t work (dig, hoe, rake, step on, etc) clay soils when they are…

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15.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

A Bit Of Garden Wisdom

Garden Quotations + gardening tips + General gardening

This is not the time of year to do all this pruning and moving, but insuch a tangled garden it must be done, and now is better than never. ~Katy’s Garden

01.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Good Gardening Ideas Gone Bad

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It seemed like such a good idea at the time: loads of grass trimmings from mowing, and trees to mulch. Grass clippings ought to make good mulch. The trouble is that they often harbor grass seed and create an encroaching wave of grass in the coming seasons. Not so good for new trees. Or straw….

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15.03.08 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Do You Dig Your Soil?

garden chores + Garden soil + gardening tips

That is “sixties-speak” for whether or not you like the soil handed to you in your garden… do you bloom where you are planted? Here in Central Ohio I have gardened on clay types of soils. Presently my garden soil is composed of a dark clay loam called Kokomo. With the way the weather has…

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06.02.08 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

The Frugal Gardener

Garden Stories and Memories + gardening tips

Stuart asked “What was your best plant bargain?” and as a frugal gardener I have had a few. It is hard to just pick one, things being relative 🙂 Last year I picked up some lovely hydrangeas I’d been wanting… for about five dollars each, in large containers. I’m always looking over the specials and…

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30.10.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Q&A From Keywords

Garden soil + gardening tips + Landscape Trees

Sometimes it is interesting what people are looking for when they land on your page. Here are a few questions that people had according to my Statcounter, along with the answers I have for them today. When to mulch garden? Well, for this time of year I would wait until we have had frozen ground,…

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10.10.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Feeling Like October

gardening tips + October

Finally, the horrid heat wave is over. fini. All the things I loved about October were evaporating in the July-like heat (one of my least favorite months), but now all is back to normal. Now I can direct you, dear reader, to my October gardening tips, and let you know about a frost date selector…

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04.10.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Fast Grow the Weeds: Fruit Fly Catcher

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Fast Grow the Weeds: More bugs: “September is a beautiful month around here, but it is also Fruit Fly Month.” If you have a glass jar, a paper cone, and a piece of juicy fruit.. you can be on your way to ridding your kitchen of fruit flies. See El’s directions and picture for full…

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02.10.07 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

I ♥ Peat Moss

Garden soil + gardening tips

I do. Peat moss has been my garden’s best friend for a long time. It is mainly a soil conditioner, and that is what makes it so valuable. I used to garden on heavy clay, and even though my soil is now clay loam, it still benefits from the incorporation of some peat moss when…

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