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Garden Zone: Used ta be 6

Plants in my Garden: Roses of Sharon, Tulips, Lilies of the Valley, Violas, Lupines, Lavendar, Lilacs, Blueberries, Leeks, Swamp Iris, Alyssum, Swiss Chard, Onions, Carrots, Radishes

Favorite Aspect of Gardening: the smells

If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: at my computer or at my workbench

Occupation: StereoMan

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Location: beautiful southern appalachians
Member Since: 3/17/2008
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Ever since I was a tiny person I have had a close personal relationship with the ground. At every opportunity, I was getting dirty. traipsing through the woods, digging foxholes, tunneling to China, my life as a little kid was all about two or three changes of clothing a day.

I moved to Asheville NC as a young adult, determined to find some isolated little cove where I could eke out a living as a dirt farmer. My version of forty acres and a mule, but without the mule. Fortunately my life took some unexpected turns and I ended up gardening a half acre of red clay for twenty years, and that cured me of any notion I might have had about making a living as a farmer.

I moved ten times in the eight years after selling that house. I gardened everywhere I went, no matter how short a time I lived there, carrying my precious Elephant Ear Caladiums from place to place. Even when I was living in single room in a ramshackle old house on the grounds of the Francine Delaney New School for Children. I gardened around the school buildings. Lots of tiny hands were helping.

In 2003 I settled down in a small house on a tiny city plot overrun with box elder, locust, wisteria, Japanese honeysuckle, and huge boxwood hedges and clumps of forsythia. Once I go it all cleared out, I was rewarded with the most fantastic, fertile, healthy soil I have ever dug. I plan to continue gardening this space until the day I die.



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My juicer is here! My juicer is here!
Way back in the early eighties, when I was working in the very last corporate job I had, I used to take a lunch hour every day. Often I'd take my company car, a Subaru Brat, over the big bridge to the old Westgate Mall, where there was a tiny littl...

First Day of Summer
It's a sign I tell you! First day of summer dawned cool and breezy, heated up to a swelter only briefly, then succumbed to a refreshing shower. I had intended to spend the entire day working outside, but I welcome the break. First, though, I had to g...

Honeymoon
I want to send a great big thank you to everyone who has over the past few days thought of me and my Beloved, wished us well, said a prayer for us, sent us a smile, posted on my "getting married" thread, or otherwise added to the aura of good energy ...

Still Life With Radishes
My little patch of urban paradise is really shaping up! Everything that's going in the ground is in the ground, everything that needs to be mulched is mulched, flowers are blooming in reckless abandon, and I have begun to harvest. Mostly radishes.Rad...

Out of Time, Out of Mulch
O! that there were more hours in the day! My work -- my "real" job -- has been taking its toll of late, coupled with planning for an upcoming event of great importance. Three weeks from tomorrow, our friends, families, and faith community will come t...