A Northern Nevada Garden

Things are winding down in my Nevada garden. I will be relocating to Kansas City soon. I’ll need to learn to garden all over again. And get used to a place that doesn’t count its precipitation inch by precious inch. I will be able to grow giant tomatoes again. But I will miss the desert. [...]

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I dumped the potato bag today. Most of the stalks had yellowed and died back. I was rewarded with a meal’s worth of fingerling potatoes. Not bad, considering it was a grand experiment! I also have squash, tomatoes and eggplants ready to pick. Yay! Life is good.!

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Other than sending my Rhododendron to live in North Carolina or Maryland, I am looking for ways to make it look a little happier. At the moment, it is definitely NOT happy. I have taken several steps this year to help it along: top-dressed it with acidic soil, fed it acid-lovers plant food, mulched it, [...]

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I have three large pine trees in a corner of my backyard. I don’t know the name but they are very tall–but not wide–trees with smooth, almost black bark. A few days ago, we noticed that one of them looked very bad especially compared to the other two. I have no idea why I didn’t [...]

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