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Feb 3, 2011 8:17 AM CST
Name: Neal Linville
Winchester, KY (Zone 6a)
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I'm not wintersowing this year either, just going to be too busy with wedding work this spring to spend as much time in the garden as I have the last few years. I'm missing the garden activity too, really wanting to get my hands in some dirt! My plan is to work on just maintaining the gardens this year. I want to get the beds mulched well and reduce weeding time, hoping I can come home after a long work day and actually enjoy the gardens rather than feeling guilty about neglecting them. We lost of couple of Bradford pears to ice and wind storms this year (they were mature when we moved here, so I knew it was just a matter of time, but they were so pretty in bloom I just waited till they had to come down), and I had a big wild cherry tree taken down, so I'll see some big changes this year with the infusion of sun to those areas. The wild cherry would have been ok to remain if it hadn't been for all the damn tent caterpillars! The tree was too big to spray them, and when the worms left the nests they would devour everything in the beds below.
"...and don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous." Rumi

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