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probably means some this fall.<\/p>\nImbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wild Moon<\/p>\n
At this time of year gardeners begin to develop x-ray vision, seeing through the snow, ice and frozen\u00a0 soil and imaging the greening.\u00a0 Those of us who rely on memory more than paper try to envision what we’ve got in the ground, sort of the botanical base line.\u00a0 Perennial flowers and plants, which make up the bulk of our terraced gardens, have an established presence.\u00a0 We add in some annuals as the spirit moves, sometimes we divide existing plants like hosta, hemerocallis, iris, Siberian iris, liguria, bug bane, dicentra, aster.\u00a0 Once in a while we plant new bulbs.\u00a0 None last fall, for example, but that probably means some this fall.<\/p>\n
(pic:\u00a0 where we left off last fall)<\/p>\n
This part of the garden requires work, but not as much as the vegetables and the orchard.\u00a0 I count it is a known quantity.<\/p>\n
The permaculture additions, of which we have made several over the last three years, are still new to us, requiring attention and learning.\u00a0 This year, I’ve decided, will be a consolidation year.\u00a0 Nothing new, making what we have work as well as we can.\u00a0 That means planting vegetables in two categories:\u00a0 kitchen garden for eating throughout the summer and early fall and vegetables for storage over the winter:\u00a0 potatoes, garlic, parsnip, carrots, greens, squash\u00a0 those kind of things.<\/p>\n
There is a good bit of work to be done repairing Rigel and Vega’s late fall destruction.\u00a0 That won’t be repeated because we have a small fortune in fencing around the vegetables and the orchard, but I lost heart last fall and didn’t get the netaphim repaired and earth moved back into place.\u00a0 That awaits in the spring.<\/p>\n
In mid-March I have the bee-keeping class and this year I have the same consolidation idea for the bees.\u00a0 Establishing the hives as permanent parts of our property.<\/p>\n
We do have a couple of smaller non-garden projects that need to get done.\u00a0 I dug the fire-pit two years ago, but with all the fun of the puppy’s last summer never got back around to it.\u00a0 It needs finishing.\u00a0 I also want to turn the former machine shed into a honey house, a place to store bee stuff and to process the honey.\u00a0 Of course, we actually have to produce some first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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