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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Featured, January

National Seed Swap Day on Saturday

Tagged With: garden community, garden swap, seeds

Swap Seeds For A Better Garden This Year Gardener's have traditionally loved to trade with each other: tips ad advice, seeds and plants, even tools of the trade. It is no surprise that as the seed supplies available from seed companies have been … [Read more...] about National Seed Swap Day on Saturday

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: gardening tips, January, seed starting

Inspiration: getting seeds started

Tagged With: seed starting

I recall some of the many types of containers I experimented with in starting seedlings. One of the first attempts(and I always seemed to have beginners luck with my gardening) was with empty egg cartons. Each little egg holder was filled with soil, … [Read more...] about Inspiration: getting seeds started

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: 2010, garden chores, How's the weather?, January, winter

My Ohio Winter

It has been a snowy and cold winter, the present season broke records for cold temperatures. I like the picturesque snow covered landscape and several mornings I awakened to hoar frosts that transformed the garden into white traceries of laced … [Read more...] about My Ohio Winter

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: 2010, January

January- The Month of Two Faces

January, being named for the Roman god Janus, is something of a two way street in time. The name Janus means "archway" and he was a god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings [Janus. I sit and think of this pagan mythology early on Sunday … [Read more...] about January- The Month of Two Faces

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: An Armchair Gardener, garden chores, Garden Roses, How's the weather?, January, Vegetable garden

In the Deep Freeze

Deep freezeWhile we are in the deep freezer here in Ohio, I have been setting up (ever so slowly) my new computer. I find myself planning my garden season in the year to come, and am hopeful that my husbands newly mentioned interest comes to … [Read more...] about In the Deep Freeze

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: January

Gardening in January

We've had some beautiful weather here, although it is now turning cold. I enjoyed the sunshine while it lasted! Normally January is full steam blogging, but I will be setting up a new computer system and that means blogging will be slow until that is … [Read more...] about Gardening in January

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: An Armchair Gardener, January, winter

The Gardener’s Starting Block

That is how I look at the month of January. Some things have a new year's start in September, such as the school year, some in October, such as the holiday season, but January is the starting block for a gardener; this gardener, anyway.November and … [Read more...] about The Gardener’s Starting Block

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: January, winter, winter chores

I was going to garden…

but I thought better of it. Not too many days ago I was musing a bit about doing some of the January pruning, because normally there is January thaw about now. The season being what it is, we are in the throes of freezing temperatures which nip in … [Read more...] about I was going to garden…

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: January, winter

Winter’s Second Entrance

After everyone has talked about the insertion of spring in January's notes for the year, now comes the reappearance of winter. It has been steadily chilling, until today when early this morning I looked out upon diamond frost. That is when a veil of … [Read more...] about Winter’s Second Entrance

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