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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Night Work

May 31, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Continuing with this week’s gardening theme, we planted the deck tonight. Here is the before: And the after: The plants are a combination of sedum & dusty millers that survived […]

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I Like … Birds*

May 30, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Luckily Rob likes ladders! We picked out a metal bird feeder this weekend for our garden, to hang from our tree: Rob created a pulley system so we can easily […]

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Garden Update Part II

May 29, 2012by madisonsquare 1 Comment

This year we went plant shopping with our neighbors to the new-to-us place with amazing prices called Produce Junction. They had most of our favorites. Also, everyone there thought Rob […]

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Garden Update!

May 28, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

On Saturday we took our garden from this: …to this: With a lot of this: A little of this: And a few breaks in-between: More details to follow. Hope that […]

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Spring Clean!

May 27, 2012by madisonsquare 1 Comment

Last weekend we organized a block clean up that went great! We had over 20 neighbors (of all ages) come out. We swept and weeded the sidewalks, Weeded the garden, […]

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The Basil Blog

May 23, 2012by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Kitchen Herb Window is back in action… Let’s just hope it’s more productive than last year’s! (update: uh, this was actually two summers ago! Time flies) We’re starting out easy […]

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