Archive for the Garden Category

Flower Clock?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by arkessentials

Recently I was listening to  the radio and  NPR talked about a clock based on flowers blooming at different times.   What a cool way of telling time     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaeus%27_flower_clock This sounds so cool!  I might have to try this!

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Rocky Mountain Gardening

Posted on June 4, 2011 by arkessentials

It is now the 4th of June as of this writing and my corn has yet to come up. I should be happy though. Most people around here haven’t even gotten any of their cool weather stuff in let alone corn. If corn is going to have any chance at fully maturing here in the [...]

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Corn Seed for Less

Posted on May 9, 2011 by arkessentials

John and I decided we needed some more corn seed for the garden this year.   We checked at Lone Pine Nursery off Hwy 20 near Rexburg, ID where we bought our  seed last year.  This year the price was $40 for a lb of seed!  Ouch.  We bought some reasonably priced pea seed and left.  [...]

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