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KatPowers

KatPowers

Member since: Jun 08 | Last seen: Jan 08 | Years gardening: 6 | Organic gardener

I have no idea what I’m doing, but I like to eat what I grow. So do my kids.

Gardens

    • KatPowers's Backyard garden

      Backyard garden

      Zone 6a Most of the plantings are from the previous, late owner, Tom Montgomery. We’re just maintaining a lot of what he poured his heart into.

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    • KatPowers's Container garden

      Container garden

      Zone 6a Some of this stuff has to move around. And some of it has to look pretty for guests. I guess that’s why I’m moving it around.

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    • KatPowers's Deion's garden

      Deion's garden

      Zone 6a This is the patch abandoned when the previous owner died. In spring 2008, Dominick helped clear the old beds of leaves, weeds and ivy, and Deion to...

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    • KatPowers's Dominick's Tomato garden

      Dominick's Tomato garden

      Zone 6a This is the one spot of constant sun I can plant, so I jam everything I can in — the bed is closely planted, sifted with peat moss and then m...

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    • KatPowers's Fence garden

      Fence garden

      Zone 6a Dominick needed a place to get out his aggression, so we let him whack away at anything he found growing along the fence — mostly scrubby-loo...

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    • KatPowers's Kitchen garden

      Kitchen garden

      Zone 6a We needed a place to dump clay before taking it to the dump. When digging up the clay, we had found the previous owner had been gardening on that v...

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    • KatPowers's Miss Laurene's garden

      Miss Laurene's garden

      Zone 6a This garden is dictated by the landlady’s tastes. Everything is mulched and pretty from the street, and I usually get around to weeding it be...

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    • KatPowers's Not God's Green Acre garden

      Not God's Green Acre garden

      Zone 6a I really tried with this bed, and I can’t make it work. When we first moved in, the landlady had planted marigolds that didn’t take ver...

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Boston

United States United States 6a

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I love to grow

tomatoes, peonies, strawberries, squashes

Hobbies

breathing

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