{"id":4101,"date":"2013-06-11T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2013-06-11T20:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T00:26:26","slug":"how-does-your-garden-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/06\/11\/how-does-your-garden-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"How does your garden grow?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Potatoes<\/a>

Potatoes in foreground, salad greens, onions, peas, garlic.<\/p><\/div>\n

I need your help.<\/p>\n

I love wandering through, driving past, and hearing about other people’s gardens. I’d like to see your garden, but it’s unlikely I’ll make it to everyone’s home this summer.<\/p>\n

Let’s track and share the progress of our gardens during the summer months. With photos.<\/p>\n

Every Tuesday I’ll publish one or more of your photos as we move through June, July, August and into the autumn harvest months.<\/p>\n

Years ago, after visiting a demonstration of sand painting by Buddhist monks visiting the St. Lawrence University Brush Art Gallery, I realized that gardening is a lot like sand painting. Your “canvas” changes on a daily basis and, at the end of the season, like a sand painting poured into the river, your garden is cleared and you start with a fresh surface the following spring.<\/p>\n

\"Rhubarb<\/a>

Rhubarb gone to flower, pole beans in the background just planted.<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, unlike sand painting, you get to eat what you produce.<\/p>\n

I’ve got the ball rolling here with a few (very wet) photos I took this morning before heading into the station. Garlic is doing great, ditto for onions and salad greens. Carrots, beets, chard have emerged but not very large, yet. I’ve added a second round of leaves to the potato patch so this must be good spud-growing weather. Tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are on strike: they’re not going to grow until the sun comes out and stays out. Corn is a couple of inches high.<\/p>\n

Martha Foley and I were talking about gardens yesterday and agreed that everything looks great right now: weeds still smaller than vegetables, plants fresh and bright. But I’ll show you the weeds in my garden as the summer progresses. I promise.<\/p>\n

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\"garden6-13Aa-002\"<\/a>Oh, and one more shot, from this morning: the saturated and drooping peony in our flower garden. The white border at the top of the photo is the plastic bag I was using to protect my phone from the pouring rain.<\/p>\n

What’s growing in your garden? Share a photo of all or part of your garden, or just a single plant. I want to see!
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Email your photos to: ellen@ncpr.org<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need your help.
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