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Farm stand recipe for Labor Day: Corn Chowder

5:45 PM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

The corn passed knee-high by the Fourth of July. You eyed the ripening ears and pounced when they were just ready, eating them barely cooked and hardly seasoned. Now, when "native corn" fills farm stands, we're all a bit finickier.......

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A gardener's profile - some personality traits

5:58 PM Sat, Aug 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have become much more aware of my personality traits -- namely some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, propensities (due to anxiety, insecurity, poor self-confidence) toward being worried and feeling guilty when many things are not done properly or done in time,......

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A rebellious splash of pink in Providence

5:25 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Paula Constantine    Email

When I came into the parking lot this morning, the Downtown Clean & Safe Team gardeners were replacing the colorful summer flowers we downtowers have been admiring, and replacing them with chrysanthemums. I'm not ready for this. I'm choosing to......

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A gardener's confession: It's not only me any more

1:16 PM Sun, Aug 17, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Dahlias in my garden. If you are, like me, a person with a full-time job (or equivalent to a full-time job), with very active social and family commitments, and still having to take many trips away from home and......

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 Tags  dahlias   garden help   photos  

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How I spent my summer vacation: At the landfill

5:06 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Paula Constantine    Email

There's not much going on in the garden right now. In fact, some people are ready for a little vacation from weeding and cutting and garden chores. My grandmother used to say "a change is as good as a rest".......

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 Tags  rirrc landfill household hazardous waste Johnston  

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My new red menace steals a summer pleasure

7:22 PM Fri, Aug 01, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Paula Constantine    Email

In case you haven't heard, there's a big bad little red guy headed our way. The rapacious, voracious lily beetle is eating its way south in little hippity hoppity -- hops -- as fast as its articulated legs will carry......

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 Tags  lilies lily beetle uri parasitic wasps  

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Wisteria seedpods dangle from my arbor now

10:23 AM Mon, Jul 28, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

American wisteria seedpods with raindrops I'm growing American wisteria, entwined as part of a crowd of clematis and morning glories on a wooden arbor. As I walked under it, I bumped into a giant green bean (or a small......

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 Tags  late July   seedpods   wisteria  

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