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Gardening in Southwest Idaho

Ants With a Taste for Cabbage

June 11, 2011 Gardening in Southwest Idaho

One of my cabbages has had the life sucked out of it.   It is just one in a series of crimes perpetuated over the last few years.  The cabbage or broccoli will sprout, grow to a well established juvenile stage and then, steadily, the leaves change to a sick purple until the plant falls over, [...]

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Helpless Female Takes On Underground Broken Sprinkler Pipe

June 9, 2011 Gardening in Southwest Idaho

I think it is because I have been studying Chinese.  I think my husband decided that if I can do that, I can be taught anything.  I am dubious about this, but circumstances were in his favor this time around.  But I must emphasize that I was tutored well by him before I went to [...]

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Know Your Volunteers

June 5, 2011 Gardening in Southwest Idaho

Spring in southwest Idaho brings an exciting wave of green to our yards.  One challenge for me is to separate the weeds from the desirable volunteer seedlings.  These volunteers reseed and establish in unexpected places, teaching me along the way about which conditions they prefer and what time of year I can actually plant my [...]

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