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this week in the garden 3/22 – 3/28

Posted in Crops, Photos, Video, garden on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

There was much joy in the garden this week even when you consider the addition of an inch+ of rain we received. How else but joyful can you describe the feeling of a load of fine, black, aged horse manure getting delivered and dumped? Grandboy and I were ready when Landworks Earthmoving brought the load [...]

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this week in the garden 3/15 – 3/21

Posted in Calendar, Crops, Graces, Photos, garden, tagged Flickr, garden, gardening, green, photograph, recycle, reuse, sustainable on March 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

We played in the dirt this week instead of in the mud! Finally some dry weather allowed us to do a little tilling and planting. But first we burned the brush pile. Yikes!! We wonder if an early garden visitor will return in an attempt to share in the toils of our labor… He tilled. [...]

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this week in the garden 3/08 – 3/14

Posted in Photos, Video, garden, tagged Abraham Lincoln tomato, bird, Cayenne pepper, cedar waxwing, Crimson Cushion tomato, Eden Keeps, Flickr, garden, gardening, heirloom variety, Kentucky, moon, Packman Broccoli, pepper, photograph, Photos, Pimento Pepper, rain, seed, seedling, Siletz tomato, tomato, Video, waterdrops, weather, weekly update, West Kentucky, YouTube on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The word for the week on our weekly garden journey, 2009? Muddy. We had tried to play around in the dirt some late in the week before but found the garden still too wet to work. But last Sunday it got even wetter. After almost 1 1/4 inches of rain, once again we had to [...]

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welcome to our garden

Posted in garden, tagged blog, Eden Keeps, family history, farming, garden, Kentucky, KY, photograph, vegetables, West Kentucky on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We are having a garden again! My grandparents lived on farm in south Graves County, KY, when I was very little. The fun memories we have from there are many. Climbing the sarvis tree in the chicken yard, gathering eggs from the hen house, watching as they made sausage from pig parts sorted amongst big [...]

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