2021 11 27 - Flower / butterfly garden

Picture - My future butterfly garden. The weather was nice enough to be outside for a few hours. In the background area there are three...

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Nov 29, 20212 min read

2021 11 02 - Final fruit (veggies)

PICTURE - Peas are still growing. We have been near, at or below freezing overnight for the last two weeks and still these peas are...

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Nov 2, 20211 min read

2021 10 17 - Frost

PICTURE - Frost on the neighbor's house. Most of the garden froze off sometime around the 17th. I didn't write it down (and it is now...

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Nov 2, 20211 min read

2021 10 16 - Harvest

PICTURE There has been frost on some of the roofs in the neighborhood the last few morning so I decided to pick the larger peppers. The...

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Oct 17, 20211 min read

2021 10 02 - Future garden

PICTURE - My future flower / butterfly area. On the right of the picture just past the current fire ring is the old fire pit where...

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Oct 2, 20212 min read

2021 09 21 - Forgotten garden

PICTURE - I think my celery is now about twice as tall as it was when I bought it four moths ago. And I still haven't eaten any of it. I...

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Sep 21, 20211 min read

2021 08 15 - Finally flowers

Somehow there are a few morning glories that the deer didn't get. Anywhere I weeded the flowers the deer ate them off at the ground. Once...

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Aug 16, 20211 min read

2021 08 08 - Our First Watermelon of the year

PICTURE - Our first watermelon. And it may be our only watermelon. I haven't seen any others or even any flowers. It was good, but a lot...

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Aug 8, 20211 min read

2021 08 01 - My First Blackberry

PICTURE - I planted these blackberries in 2013. And this is my first blackberry. I also had blackberries in another area that I planted...

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Aug 7, 20211 min read

2021 07 30 - Feeding the wildlife

PICTURE - Now the squirrels have gotten in on the action. Usually they wait until it is almost ripe. This year they got their first cobb...

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Aug 1, 20211 min read

2021 07 24 - Corn

First thing this AM I notice that some of my corn has been cut off right at the ground, that looks like worms because of how it was cut....

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Jul 24, 20212 min read

2021 07 17 - The garden is starting to produce

Picture - The produce in the pan is going in the house, as are the peppers and tomatoes. The larger squash are headed to the compost....

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Jul 17, 20211 min read

2021 07 14 - Corn is just about ready

Picture - Something is into my corn already and it is not the deer. We did get rain over the last two days. Almost an inch so I shouldn't...

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Jul 17, 20211 min read

2021 07 13 - Disappointing fruit

Last winter a lot of my raspberries were eaten off so we have a lot fewer plants this year. Of the few that are producing, the berries...

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Jul 14, 20211 min read

2021 07 08 - Busy morning

I had to start with a little non-garden yard work this AM. We were gone for two days and a large branch blew down in our yard and I...

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Jul 8, 20212 min read

2021 07 05 - Winding down on the planting.

We were gone when I wanted to plant my last planting of corn so I ended up planting two more plantings instead of one. And instead of the...

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Jul 6, 20212 min read

2021 07 03 - Water, weed, repeat

I water in the AM, about one hour per move. My south garden is too wide to reach with one swath of the sprinkler so I have do that one in...

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Jul 6, 20211 min read

2021 06 27 - Berry good

The plan was to pick berries today. I picked a few as I walked past. There are only a couple of blue berry plants with berries on them....

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Jun 27, 20212 min read

2021 06 26 - Wild ... flowers ?

That is where I planted them. Wild flowers should be able to grow wild, right? The first year I tried to garden I didn't know what I...

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Jun 26, 20212 min read

2021 06 25 - ONE is a lonely number

From a 20 foot row of peas, there is now one pea plant left From a 10 foot row of beans, there is now 1 bean plant left ... so I know I...

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Jun 26, 20211 min read

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WELCOME TO A TRAVELERS GARDEN

We are travelers, we travel for a living, we go where and when work takes us.

But I still like to garden, so this is how things go and maybe how things look for someone who is not there to tend the garden on a regular basis.

We live on a city lot, about one third of an acre and the garden is in our back yard.

I started gardening in 2010 as a way to have less yard to mow. Each year I have enlarged the garden and will again this year.

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