Plant Sale!

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CICADAS THREW A MONKEY WRENCH INTO MY PRUNING

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UPCOMING EVENTS SCHEDULEApril 26th, 2014: “Pruning Nuts”, New York Nut Growers Association spring meeting at the Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, 423 Griffing Avenue, Riverhead, NY, on Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 9:30 until 3:00, http://www.nynga.org.April 27th, 2014: 2-5:30, "Pruning workshop" with Lee Reich, at my farmden in New Paltz, NY. Contact me for more information. This hands-on (my hands) workshop will cover: The best time to prune; the “tools of the trade”; Plant response to various kinds of pruning cuts; pruning demonstrations. Contact…
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Pruning workshop

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Thank You.

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Thank you to everyone who offered to send me seeds of 'Gardener's Delight' tomato from Britain. I have some seeds, and will of course, post the results of my little experiment -- in August.
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I’m Prepared, Gardenwise, For Cold Weather

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I’m prepared, gardenwise, for cold weather. What’s more, I’ll know when it’s here. My quiver of thermometers stands ready. Outdoors, I’m monitoring temperatures with two Taylor brand thermometers. The “Digital Wireless Weather System” sensor out in the garden beams temperature readings to the indoor receiver unit to keep me posted on the weather. In addition to the temperature, this thermometer shares the dew point and the maximum and minimum temperatures from whenever I last re-set those temperatures. The other Taylor thermometer, an old, mechanical, mercury-filled, min-max thermometer…
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Help!

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For a little experiment I'm doing I need seeds of Thompson & Morgan's 'Gardener's Delight' tomato. This British company (http://www.thompson-morgan.com) sells those seeds on their British website, but not their U.S. website. T&M does not ship items from that site to the U.S. Can someone out there send me a packet of those seeds? ('Gardener's Delight' seeds are also sold by some U.S. seed companies but, for the purposes of my experiment, I need T&M's seed of that variety.) Please contact me through my website, which is linked to this blog (on your right, just below the photo of…
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One Of My Favorite Things About Our Planet

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One of my favorite things about our planet is that the darkest and the coldest days don’t coincide. Wouldn’t that be depressing if they did? We cleared the hump for the darkest days back at the end of December but days and nights are, on average, scheduled to still grow colder and colder.     For me, the longer days offset the increasing cold. Only partially, though, because November to March brings the most overcast days here in the northeast. The days, at least, are growing longer and longer by about a minute each day early this month to over two minutes from one day to the next by the…
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COME TOUR MY FARMDEN

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Gardening Workshop

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