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Feb 9, 2019
4 min

The Right Seed-Hybrid or Heirloom?

As you may remember when we met here before, I had received my annual embarrassment of seed catalogues. And, instead of getting down to ...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 23, 2019
4 min

A Selection of Mailmen and Seed

The planning commences! Most of the seed catalogues have arrived and are countering the gray boredom of being inside. This is the first s...

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Gardening with Henry Clay the Wonder Cat

Ginger Dawson

Dec 28, 2018
5 min

Gardening with Henry Clay the Wonder Cat

I have always been a cat lover. From the first time that someone dumped off a load of sore-eyed kittens in front of our house when I was ...

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Ginger Dawson

Feb 10, 2018
3 min

The Kentucky Tomato Derby

It’s that time of year when the big event, Garden 2018, is in its nascent stages. The seed has been ordered and received. As usual, I ...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 5, 2018
3 min

Soil, Seed and a Grumpy Mailman

The human mind is an interesting thing. You can do anything with it you’d like. You can decide to be depressed, happy, sick, miserable,...

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Ginger Dawson

Feb 18, 2017
5 min

BE THE PLANT!

Mother nature is playing tricks on us. It’s the end of February and it’s sixty degrees outside! This is a cruel, cruel carrot to dangle...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 25, 2017
5 min

A YUGE Assortment of Catalogues

Twenty-nine catalogues!! Unbelievable. I started receiving this bale of paper, in fits and starts, beginning right before Christmas. Th...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 6, 2017
5 min

New Places for Old Friends

A new year ahead. New possibilities and new directions, not just in gardening, but in life, as well. Gardening, as always, is my haven. ...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 31, 2016
5 min

More Catalogues; More Choices!

Yesterday, I completed the very important annual business of sorting through the landfill-enriching stack of seed catalogues I received. ...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 4, 2016
4 min

Chairman of the Bored

Winter brings with it a time of indoor contemplation. I spoke about this in my last column. I have been mulling over the successes and ...

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Ginger Dawson

Dec 8, 2015
5 min

Asparagus and Mortality

To all appearances, the garden is asleep. It’s been tilled. The straw and newspaper I like to use as a mulch is blending with the quiet...

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Ginger Dawson

Mar 8, 2015
4 min

A Garden by Any Other Name

Well, Mother Nature certainly has been puckish this year. At the beginning of the season, Winter was mild, getting around was easy and u...

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Ginger Dawson

Feb 15, 2015
4 min

A Gardening Library

I am a self-taught gardener. Now, you would think that since I grew up on an Ohio farm, I would have some foundation of knowledge about...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 20, 2015
4 min

An Embarrassment of Choices

Right around Christmas, when I was up to my eyeballs and possibly drowning with the joys of celebrating the holiday season, my seed catal...

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Ginger Dawson

Jan 6, 2015
4 min

The Long View in a Short Way

In Covington, Kentucky urban gardening has had a long, interesting history. From the earliest times of the late Nineteenth and early Twe...

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Ginger Dawson

Mar 24, 2014
3 min

Winter and the Bugs

OK, the severe cold with its deep blanket of snow is mostly behind us this year. As a gardener, the first thing I want to know is this: ...

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