Tuesday, December 05, 2006
It's All Relative
As the garden slowly subsides into... shall we say irrelevance, for the next couple of months of winter, it's easy to give way to horticultural self-pity. It's times like this that I like to surf the garden blog world. I'm not looking for pictures of tropical gardens in full bloom, for that would just make me feel more put upon. I'm looking for poor souls who are buried deeper and longer in winter than I am. Sometimes, though, one runs across a gardener that may have been driven over the edge by snow and cold. There's Anne, of the blog Tundra Garden. She lives in Barrow, hard on the Arctic Circle, and her gardens are raised beds containing native tundra wildflowers. Her next to last post showed her garden still half-buried in snow in May. Then in July, her garden had some small flowers blooming, but she said it was snowing... then, nothing; it was her last post. I wonder, after being buried in snow for nine months, when it started snowing again in July, was that the last straw for this intrepid gardener?I think I'll go for a garden walk.
// posted by IBOY @ 6:11 AM 
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Sissy... it does stay out (weighs about 60 pounds, and one of a pair on either side of an arch). I'm going to put a bag over there heads, though for weather protection, as I need to repaint them.
Don
Don
I saw some pics in a garden magazine of an Alaskan gardener using old chest freezers as raised beds. They had painted them brown to draw heat from the sun, and said it really extended their growing season...guess they need all the help they can get!
Lisa... Boy, that sounds too much like work to me; I think I'd switch from gardening to stamp collecting.
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