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winter chores

18.11.13 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Winterizing The Garden, Putting Pots And Containers To Bed

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Winter, Ready or Not?  Kathy Purdy had an excellent article on how she is winterizing her potted plants in her New York yard and I thought I would add my experience here in the cold climate of Ohio to the mash. First on my list is simply getting the terra cotta  pots into my unheated…

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19.01.12 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

A Robert Frost Sort of Evening

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Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winterby Robert Frost The west was getting out of gold,The breath of air had died of cold,When shoeing home across the white,I thought I saw a bird alight.In summer when I passed the placeI had to stop and lift my face;A bird with an angelic giftWas singing in it…

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18.01.09 | Ilona Erwin | 6 Comments

Winter’s Aftermath

2009 + How's the weather? + winter + winter chores

We don’t think too much about it while everyone is trading temperature reports and talking about record breaking lows, but at some point the clash between the weather we are experiencing and the cold tolerance of our plants will become something to reckon with. We won’t know just how hard our winter was on our…

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17.12.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Winter- I am so over it

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Yes, I know what I was saying earlier in the week, but that was before the snow turned to rain and sleet, and before I had to run around doing errands in it. It reminded me all too sharply of what winter usually consists of here in Central Ohio.But the snow is really pretty when…

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12.12.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Ohio Weather!

winter + winter chores

Weather everywhere seems freakish, but I think I say that every year. After our picture perfect snowfall, we had the defrost turned on and yesterday I worked in the garden finishing last minute procrastinations. It was a grace period of record breaking temperature for just one lovely day. 66 degrees. Almost summer. Today is cold…

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26.01.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

I was going to garden…

January + winter + winter chores

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 the bud any ideas of spending time…

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29.11.06 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Mission Accomplished

General gardening + winter chores

I finished the garden chores, as intended, yesterday. It was mild, but I would have loved to have seen just a last hurrah of sunshine before this weeks predicted storms moved in. But, alas, no. Partly sunny turned out to be mostly cloudy;) I mainly pruned away some of the branches of the Shasta viburnums,…

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22.11.06 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Transitions

General gardening + winter chores

The transitions of the seasons in my garden are the allegory of my life right now. I have a love-hate relationship with gardening that mirrors the love-hate relationship I have with my body as it ages and it gets harder to have it be what I want it to be. Sometimes my garden mocks me…

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15.11.06 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

I’m Not Gardening

November + winter chores

That’s right… it’s cold and wet, and I have no desire to do the work this year. Tsk -tsk is the proper response. We are doing the leaf raking, and I suppose I will have to get out there and do some pre-winter prunings. but I am ready -earlier than usual- to hole up and…

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