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2011

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27.12.11 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Wrapping Up The 2011 Gardening Year

2011 + General gardening

Hello Dear Garden Loving Friends! We are at the cusp of the year, and I greet you as garden-loving, rather than gardening, since some of us -as John so wisely remarked to me- have had a few barriers to doing as much as we might have wished in the garden this year. For some of…

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06.07.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Everything Is Late, But Coming Along

2011 + summer

Home in Late June My main endeavor this summer has been to weed, since absent from the garden so long. While taking care of the vegetable plot, which if you will remember was planted hurriedly just before leaving town, I noticed some tomato fruits. Green, small to medium sized, but coming along. After all the…

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04.06.11 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

June 2011 Report for Flatironed Acres

2011

Flatironed Acres is what I have decided to call this place because it looks like God took an old fashioned flatiron and smoothed it out without fold or wrinkle. Some passing thunder rumbled, but it proved an empty threat of rain. I had taken note of it this morning and continued my efforts at reclaiming…

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25.05.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Florida is Beautiful-and Dry, Very Dry

2011

From A Garden Journal, Diary of Ilona’s Garden Looks like Ohio is getting everyone’s rain, but saw the terrible news about the tornadoes. I can only imagine the rainforest-like conditions that await me at home. Hopefully my little tomato plants are surviving- I left them protected by clay drain pipe, which is how I always…

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18.05.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Rainiest Season Ever

2011 + How's the weather?

I talked with my husband in Ohio and it is still raining, and quite cool. He heard the farmers have only a small fraction of their fields planted with the corn crop. People aren’t able to keep up with the mowing either, although that is a lesser problem. There are a number of problems for…

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13.05.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Rural Report Spring 2011

2011 + garden chores + How's the weather? + spring

Here in Ohio, we couldn’t wait for spring to get here. We complained about the long winter and the uncommonly frequent snowfall. We fairly longed for spring, more than the usual, and sent each other encouraging reminders and photos to keep each other’s spirits up. And then Spring arrived… but not as we imagined or…

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13.03.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Soaking Wet Ground

2011 + March

Cold Climate Gardening’s Kathy Purdy calls it The Mud Season, and it has hit Ohio with a vengeance this year. Right now in our area it is more like Pond Season which will morph into Mud Season. For mommies, that means trying to stave off the inevitable tracks through the house. Mats at the door,…

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23.02.11 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Expectedly, We Re-entered Winter

2011 + garden chores + How's the weather? + seed starting + Vegetable garden

I hope no one else in Ohio is disappointed, since there is no real end of winter weather here before April, and last blasts of it can happen into May. I look outside onto snow frosted fields, the upturned furrows breaking the surface are like a choppy sea. More winter storms are coming this week,…

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06.02.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Night The Ice Fell

2011 + February + Garden Stories and Memories + winter

“It was a dark and stormy night”… is how my uncle jokingly started the telling of some family history as we sat in the living room, all fully aware of the storm predictions and awaiting the next sidewalk report from my husband’s periodical trek to get the next load of wood for our stove. The…

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20.01.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Central Ohio Garden Show in Columbus

2011

Hocking Hills Garden has a “pretty in pink” look I notice that LonaDawn of Hocking Hills Garden has a post up announcing this years garden show. It is “scheduled for February 26 through March 6 in Columbus will be held at the Ohio Expo Center.” Her pictures are always terrific, go see some views she…

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