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Garden Diary: Rain That Won’t Go Away

About a week ago, I started a more intensive watering regimen for the plants, and saw immediate results. All the plants shot up, some nearly doubling in size.
I haven’t watered in three days: the rain has been nearly torrential! As a result, the mustard greens have shot up to nearly 6 inches, as [...]

Garden Notes: Summer Savory

Just a very quick note.
I was considering the possibility that I had lost the summer savory (again!) and was going to seed them again, when I realized there is one single, solitary shoot right in the middle of my pot! All might not be lost.
Another thing: the transplanted tomatillos have managed to sprout more [...]

Garden Diary: Tomatillos!

Do you remember when I mentioned that big rain storm earlier this week? You might also remember that a few things we had started from seed, including the garlic chives and tomatillos, looked like they might have drowned. Well a few days ago I noticed the marigolds were growing after all, but I’d [...]

Garden Notes: Weekend Rains, Cold, Cold Evenings

Well it rained all weekend long, pretty hard at that. If you’re anywhere in the U.S., you probably are aware of the weird, intensive weather patterns across the entire nation: tornadoes in Alabama, snow so heavy Colorado declared a state of emergency, torrential rains all over the Southeast and wind advisories1 that threatened to [...]

The Great Blizzard of 2009

One of Athens' many bulldog landmarks (a tribute to the University of Georgia Bulldogs teams, loving called "The Dawgs"), the Spartan Dawg, situated right in front of UGA's arches stands in several inches of snow, two days after the great 'Blizzard of 09'I REALLY wished I had a digital camera to capture the weekend’s winter [...]