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Questions From The Gallery

22.09.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

All most bloggers read their statistics through blog counters. One of the interesting things for me are the the ways people find themselves on the pages, through search engine questions. Just for fun I’ll put the latest ones here… and hopefully in giving an answer or two, someone benefits from my obsession with the blog traffic stats.

  • How to clean garden vegetables? I just use one of those nifty veggie brushes for most of them, if you don’t eat/cook them up right away you can wipe them off with a paper towel. Otherwise, rinse under clean water.
  • How to treat wet clay soil? Not at all. Don’t touch it. but once it dries out to crumbly textures you can do many things:). Read my 5 Tips for Clay
  • Should I put peat moss in garden in the fall? anytime is a good time, but fall is a great time to put peat moss into your soil! I ♥ Peat Moss
  • In the fall when should one cut back bee balm and black eyed susans? Sure, if you wish to clean up the garden beds, go ahead and cut them down. I like to leave the little black seedheads of the Black-eyed Susans for winter interest, but that’s just me
  • Why has my kolkwitzia gone brown? Oooo, good question. I’ve had some trouble on a cotoneaster, and the winter honeysuckle. Sounds like something at the root, given how wet and cool conditions were this year it might be a bacterial blight. Might be borers. check for further signs and cut back to the ground. If it dried out, it’s a goner.
  • Clay soil, add coffee grounds? Yes, please. Just dig them right into the soil.
  • What month should you start building a garden? Now is a nice time, there is no time like the present…with good weather, soft soil, and winter freeze to condition the soil. If you plant new things in it, get them in now and consider mulching to prevent “heave”.
  • Old Man’s Cave craft show? I’ll have to look that one up… Old Man’s Cave site doesn’t mention anything. There is a “Lancaster Eagle-Gazette Fall Craft Show” which is on the way to Old’s Man’s Cave for many ( from Columbus). Oct 31

one more…”pruning yugo pine” You mean “mugo” dahling, I’m pretty sure. But I might have spelled it wrong, which is why mean old google sent you here, or the confusion I once had in spelling it “mugho”…however it is I think the page you want is When to prune a Mugo Pine

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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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  1. TC says

    September 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    I never read my blog stats. Should I? Where do I go to do that?

  2. Ilona says

    September 23, 2009 at 6:51 am

    for blogger you need to add your own site counter or analytics. I use both google analytics and statcounter.com (where I found the search questions listed in the “came from” category.)

    It helps you understand your visitors better I think.

  3. Ilona says

    September 23, 2009 at 6:55 am

    Long ago (1998-99) I had compiled a Webhelp page with all the components of useful parts of making a webpage. I have thought about resurrecting that idea this year. It is handy to have a list of counter sites, etc. Don’t know if I will tho’.

    When you get a long list of links, especially of things that are free- you have to track that they are current.

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