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Gardening in Southwest Idaho

May Blooms at the Idaho Botanical Garden

June 21, 2011 Gardening in Southwest Idaho

Our mid May visit to the Idaho Botanical Garden was on the day the Moody Blues concert was canceled. Its a good thing it was canceled, or the Garden would have been closed in preparation. As it was, we were among a very few uninformed who came to the Garden anyway. The weather was only [...]

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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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