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Tag: observation
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Simplify Spring Activity: Mulch
Our part in garden life is to bring together the conditions necessary to maintain or improve the living beings there – plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, microbes, and us. When the plants are big enough, they provide their own winter blanket…falling leaves. Mulch: maintains soil moisture; insulates the earth above the roots from weather extremes;
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Bean Harvest Sutra Two: Drying
Bean Harvest Sutra Two: Drying Winter Food1. A light, gentle squeeze of the dry, pale yellow pods in the garden will create a quiet crackling sound. Not too hard..2. Cut shrub leaving roots in the soil. (See Bean Harvest Sutra One)3. Loop cotton or hemp string around the bottom of a bundle of cut shrubs.4.
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Bee Nature; Be Nature
Please feel absolutely free to share this postvwith others who may bee interested. 🙏🌱🙏 Bee Nature; Be Nature: As for pollinators… In the Casper Wyoming area, my OLLI 4 hour Pollinator Garden class is on Sat July 13, 2024 from 10am to 2pm. Call the Casper College OLLI Office to sign up! 307.268.3401 For everyone,
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New USDA Zone Map: Critical Thinking and Your Observations Are More Important
New USDA Zone Map: GIS and 30 years of data and over 30,000 collection points still requires that you use your elegantly evolved powers of observation. This map is “general” within the millions of years of the planet, and general to your personal portion of the landscape. But it is important for a trend, a
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The Flowers of Late Summer
Late summer is so important for the plants, for the pollinators, and for our harvest. These flowers provide food for pollinators that are getting prepared to hibernate; food packed as tiny pellets placed in pollinator nests with their eggs in hollow stems and underground to feed newly hatched babies after spring thaw… food to prepare
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Radical and Root Have the Same Origin
Most folks who follow me have no ‘edge’, no passion for the radical approach. Their gardening comes more from the institutionalized Master Gardener dogma perspective. I engage with them believing that there will be a moment when the light will go on and they will realize how strong they can be from seeing their place
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Spring Into Action 1
Spring Task Series:Welcome to Spring at the Refuge!! A lot of the things you see here will be things you might also be doing around your landscape and gardens. Activities for April 16, 2023Plant herb seeds in window pots – #basil and #cilantro (how I miss homemade #pesto!!) Hook up all rain barrels- NOAA has
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Observe Nature: Currant Patch and Bumble Bees
Observe Nature… that’s the class title for a class I’ll be offering later this year. But for now here is such a great example. That heavy spring snow bent the lower branches of the black currant down to the ground. With the thaw, and melt, the snow got heavier and pushed them into the mud…
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Oh the water…
I haven’t done a video in so long. Please LIKE it if you really do. Helps me keep my Channel. But this spring has been good to us. So I thought maybe my simple water management system might be a good subject. Thank you so much! Part One. https://youtu.be/OHSqE4VSOug
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Response to the Question: Does planting by the moon really work?
“Each plant in each specific location under each specific moment of conditions responds specifically. You can work to create the best set of circumstances to support and encourage the best ecology for that plant even to its best death. Study in-depth or take a seed and stick it in the ground and water it. Then
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