Category: Gardening

Tulip Time in Pella

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If you’re Iowa local-ish, I urge you to plan a trip to Pella for their annual tulip time so you can see these… and “Dutch costumes and demonstrations, performances, a craft and vendor fair, quilt and flower shows, and beautiful tulip gardens! All of these activities are set in picturesque Pella, Iowa, a charming Dutch […]

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You Win Some, You Lose Some

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Someone tell me how it’s already the end of May? 2019 is going by in a flash. B and I have had fun with our seed experiments. We planted tomatoes, bell peppers, long peppers and broccoli earlier this spring. One broccoli seed & one tomato seed sprouted– and that’s all they did. I thought we’d […]

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Planting Seeds

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I know, I know, I say that all through the year. BUT it’s the first most wonderful time of the year! (I don’t even know if I can commit to saying it’s the first time I’ve said it this year…) ANYWAY…it’s seed time! On March 29, B […]

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