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25.11.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Winter Arrived Early

garden chores + November + Seasons

Blustery Day, Past Year’s Losses Today is briefly warmer and blustery with high winds and rain, but it is more like a January thaw than the beige autumn Indian summer that we might normally expect. I don’t know that there is a clear sense of “normal” in our gardens anymore. Still, the patterns of the…

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20.09.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Growing Season Review

2014 + the REAL world + year in review

July looked best You know how people like to summarize their year during December and especially at the turn of the year? Well, this is that time for Gardeners. Premature you say? For me, I will yet again be absent from my garden and al that remains for me to do this year is planting…

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01.08.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Winding Up July

2014 + How's the weather?

I didn’t say “Hot enough for you?” once this month. Not that I am given to using that phrase, anyway, but the weather in Ohio could not have been more beautiful. We had “Polar vortex” in July. Normally I write off this month in terms of garden work. Only mad dogs and Midwesterners work in the heat…

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04.06.14 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

June Garden Report

2014 + June

More Of  What’s Happening In My Garden Proof that there is hope for the Sweetgum tree I learned that I can’t judge a winter’s toll until June, and even then it remains to be seen what a tough summer may inflict on the garden in general and shrubs and trees in particular. Here is what…

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