Mother Earth's Garden

Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend. It’s been a little very rainy here the whole month of June. The weeds are growing fast, and I can’t get into the garden to weed without being head to toe mud.
Since I can’t get in the garden, I thought I’d do a quick roundup of June photos here at Mother Earth’s Garden.
I love photos, and June’s been a great month for photos in the garden. I hope you enjoy this garden photo collection:

Hosta collection
Peonies
Irises and other Scenes from the Garden
My Garden View
My Visit to a Fairy Garden
Blooms for gardener’s bloom …read more

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Through the years I’ve discovered being a gardener can mean many things. Here are some of the things being a gardener means to me.
Being a gardener means always having green gunk under your fingernails, no matter how many times you wash them.
Being a gardener means you can’t drive by a garden center without stopping in, just to “take a look.”
Being a gardener means the first section you stop at in the local book store or library is the gardening section… just to see if they have anything new.
Being a gardener means, on the day after Christmas you …read more

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This month the Lifstyles network is reflecting on 4th Of July’s of the past. I can’t think of Independence Day without remembering the saying for corn, it should be knee high by the 4th of July. These days most of the corn around here is usually much taller than knee high by the 4th.
Some fields got a late start this year with all the rain we’ve had recently. My sweet corn will probably only be about mid-calf high by the end of next week.
I’m thankful I have corn to measure on the 4th, some farmers in the mid-west won’t …read more

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It’s cherry picking time in Ohio. I have one lonely little cherry tree in my small orchard. I’ve thought about getting more cherry trees, but then I have flashbacks to picking cherries for hours at my grandma’s house growing up. After we spent the afternoon picking cherries, we spent all night pitting them.
I’ve been picking the ripe cherries off our little tree each day, before the birds can get them. I’m storing them up in the refrigerator for a few days. My plan is to make some cherry crisp, with the same recipe I used to make my …read more

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Sandy knows her holidays, and she sent me some important information on National Pollinator week.
The Pollinator Partnership declared June 22 to the 28th National Pollinator week to help raise awareness of the decline of bees and other pollinators. Honey bees have been hit especially hard in the last couple years with Bee Colony Collapse Disorder, which has devastated a large portion of the honey bee population.
The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign is releasing a set of guides over the next couple years to help people determine the best plants in their region to help pollinators thrive.
The …read more

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Don’t forget to vote in this month’s garden poll, check it out in the right sidebar. You have a couple more days to get your votes in.
What garden zone are you in? I’d love to know what garden zones you’d most like to learn about here at Mother Earth’s Garden.
You can also leave a comment here, or here detailing your garden zone and conditions.
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Our local small town garden center has some unique heirloom variety tomatoes, and peppers. I probably bought one of everything this spring, I just can’t resist heirloom tomatoes.
One of the most unique varieties I purchased was a Litchi tomato (the scientific name is S. sisymbriifolium). It’s a very unusual looking plant, the leaves don’t look like a typical tomato plant, and the plant is covered in thorns.
The guy at the garden center said the plant could get up to 5 feet tall. The fruit is supposed to be small, and taste like a cross between a cherry …read more

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I’m a big hosta fan. We have several large mature trees around our house, so about half of the border garden around my house is shaded. Hostas grow great in the shade, and require very little work to look beautiful.
I’ve long forgotten most of their names. I know the one pictured above is a blue angel hosta, but I don’t know the names of any of the rest of them. The blue angel is more beautiful than this photo shows. It has an almost iridescent blue color. There’s one flower spike coming up, it has a white flower …read more

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Here’s a quick video with some great native plants for woodland, or shady garden areas. These plants will do well in most northern gardens.
This video’s from Monkeysee.com, they have several other great gardening, and how to videos. Every time I go there, I find several new videos to check out.

Technorati Tags: native plants,woodland garden,shade garden,local plants

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If you enjoy Mother Earth’s Garden, I’m sure you’ll enjoy some of the other wonderful blogs in the Lifestyles Network here at b5media. In fact this month the Lifestyles Network is blooming everywhere.
Check out some of these wonderful blooms:
Marye at Baking Delights kicks us off with the 50 Best Edible Flower Recipes Ever, and she has blossoms for your beverages at Kettle and Cup to complete the meal. Marye knows food, so I’m going to be checking out these recipes over the next few days.
Sandy will help you understand edible flowers at Robust Cooking.
At She Knows Parties I …read more

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