Zone 4 Gardening Blog https://fivecedars.com/category/zone-4-gardening/ Five Cedars Decorative Arts Tue, 19 May 2015 07:48:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Swallowtail Butterfly https://fivecedars.com/swallowtail-butterfly/ https://fivecedars.com/swallowtail-butterfly/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2015 23:42:44 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1415 One of the nice things about gardening is that it’s not all about gardening. Last summer while watering the dill plants we found a caterpillar. Although we like to think of ourselves as up to date in the bug department we went to the Audubon book for an identification. It turns out it was a... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/swallowtail-butterfly/feed/ 0 Visitors to the Garden https://fivecedars.com/visitors-to-the-garden/ https://fivecedars.com/visitors-to-the-garden/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:40:46 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1234 A week ago last Monday we were visited by a mob of 1st graders, most welcome visitors to the garden. Early that morning one of the teachers from the Theresa Elementary School which is just around the corner from us, came with a request. “Could she and another teacher bring the 1st graders over for... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/visitors-to-the-garden/feed/ 0 Be careful in with scissors in the greenhouse. https://fivecedars.com/be-careful-scissors/ https://fivecedars.com/be-careful-scissors/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2015 02:38:24 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1189 In a case like this, when we have only one plant, we try to get the best yield without ruining the mother plant. I was cutting into some very hard and old wood and was using quite a bit of force with the Fiskars garden scissors. All at once the scissors snapped shut and my... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/be-careful-scissors/feed/ 0 Post setter for staking tomatoes https://fivecedars.com/post-setter-for-staking-tomatoes/ https://fivecedars.com/post-setter-for-staking-tomatoes/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2015 01:19:22 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1165 It’s been a busy week, with the garden and other work around the house and yard. We have picked lots of cukes for pickles. We grow eureka for bread and butter pickles and regal for the dills. They get washed and stored in the frig until we have enough to run a batch. Finding the... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/post-setter-for-staking-tomatoes/feed/ 0 Tomatoes coming in good. https://fivecedars.com/tomatoes-coming-in-good/ https://fivecedars.com/tomatoes-coming-in-good/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:22:24 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1154 The cherry tomatoes are coming in good and their first for us but they all are late compared to other gardeners. We started late this year but we are only a bit behind at this point. Growing so many cherry tomatoes was an experiment that is going well. The main problem is how to get... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/tomatoes-coming-in-good/feed/ 0 Buy basil starts to get a jump start on spring! https://fivecedars.com/buy-basil-starts/ https://fivecedars.com/buy-basil-starts/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:27:47 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1145 This year we are forced to buy basil starts to get a jump start on the season. We have been very busy and have not been able to find the time to get anything started. Since fresh basil is one of our favorite cooking herbs we settled on buying a 6 pack of starts to... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/buy-basil-starts/feed/ 0 Cup and Saucer Magnolia out of Zone https://fivecedars.com/cup-and-saucer-magnolia/ https://fivecedars.com/cup-and-saucer-magnolia/#respond Wed, 07 May 2014 21:23:24 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1141 I remember back a few years ago we had snow on Mothers Day. This is not such a rare occasion in this part of the country where the plant by date is Memorial Day. My Mom has a Cup and Saucer Magnolia and while we see more and more in our Zone 4 the chance... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/cup-and-saucer-magnolia/feed/ 0 It looks like spring has sprung. https://fivecedars.com/spring-has-sprung/ https://fivecedars.com/spring-has-sprung/#respond Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:13:59 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1150 Yesterday, while returning Toby, Phyllis’s sisters Yorkie, to his rightful owner after a weeks vacation we noticed the bright green and purple shoot of a crocus poking it’s head through a winter blanket of mulch and so It looks like spring has sprung. Then Phyllis saw 2 robins hunting behind the studio and a flock... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/spring-has-sprung/feed/ 0 Sweet corn stand https://fivecedars.com/sweet-corn-stand/ https://fivecedars.com/sweet-corn-stand/#respond Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:10:09 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1161 Corn is everywhere. We don’t grow it because it takes up quite a bit of space so we get it from a road side stand. One stand we like is Hunters just outside Plessis on RT 26. They usually have a good supply of corn, pumpkins and other crops for sale all season. They have... Read more »

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]]> https://fivecedars.com/sweet-corn-stand/feed/ 0 Green peppers https://fivecedars.com/green-peppers/ https://fivecedars.com/green-peppers/#respond Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:25:38 +0000 http://fivecedars.com/?p=1157 The green peppers are going gang busters. We set about 100 plants and with a yield of about 5 peppers per we have a bumper crop. The walls are not quite as thick as some we have grown but they are juicy and the flavor is great. What we do not sell or eat fresh... Read more »

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