True Epicure Says » Green Thumb Sunday http://trueepicure.com Anything worth doing is worth doing well. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:29:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Green Thumb Sunday: Making Use of Cold Weather http://trueepicure.com/2010/01/31/green-thumb-sunday-making-use-of-cold-weather/ http://trueepicure.com/2010/01/31/green-thumb-sunday-making-use-of-cold-weather/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:13:57 +0000 trueepicure http://trueepicure.com/?p=956 It doesn’t look like it, but this is some serious green thumb-ing going on here! E is making me a cold frame for my birthday! I’m helping by holding lumber while it is being cut, and then priming and painting the cut wood before E puts the frame together.

This is going to be an awesome cold frame for all of my new flowers and vegetable seeds from the Washington Gardener Seed Swap!

In Progress

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Blizzard

Flower bed on the right, lawn on the left. Right now, just snow. :|

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]]> http://trueepicure.com/2009/12/20/green-thumb-sunday-snomg/feed/ 0 Green Thumb Sunday: The Irony of Rain http://trueepicure.com/2009/11/29/green-thumb-sunday-the-irony-of-rain/ http://trueepicure.com/2009/11/29/green-thumb-sunday-the-irony-of-rain/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:40:40 +0000 trueepicure http://trueepicure.com/?p=912 It's Always Sunny in DC

Such beautiful, sunny Chrysanthemums on a rainy day in DC.

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Nasturtium

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A bit of what DC used to be like before it became DC… with some non-native additions. You can see my entire set of pictures from the day’s excursion here.

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I aspire to my mother’s garden.

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Azalea ‘Ben Morrison’

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]]> http://trueepicure.com/2009/04/19/green-thumb-sunday-echinacea-cotyledon/feed/ 0 Green Thumb Sunday: Recycling http://trueepicure.com/2009/04/12/green-thumb-sunday-recycling/ http://trueepicure.com/2009/04/12/green-thumb-sunday-recycling/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:45:26 +0000 trueepicure http://trueepicure.com/?p=794 We had a lot of cardboard boxes and newsprint left over from our recent move, many of which are on their third use and can’t be used again for storage/moving. Instead of recycling the boxes (which may or may not mean they actually get recycled), I opened them up and I’m using them as the second layer of the base for the new flower beds. (Layer one was the newsprint which you can see in some areas that aren’t covered by the boxes.)

Cardboard Mulch
(detail available on Flickr.)

The next layer will be composted mulch from Fairfax County’s solid waste program.

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Emerging tulips

It looks like there are also some shrubs poking through the soil in this picture as well.   I didn’t notice them while I was looking at the tulips.  Funny how the picture shows more than real life did.

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