NormDeplume

Member since: May 08 | Years gardening: 8 Organic gardener

I’m a mom, and a telecommuting proofreader, and a knitter, and sometimes a crocheter, too. I love to cook, but hate to wash dishes. I like to garden, but I hate to get dirt under my fingernails (I love nitrile coated gloves). I lose at least two trowels a year. I have brown hair. I hate leaf blowers. I act like I hate stream-of-conscious writing too (but do it all the time anyway). I am bored of writing sentences that start with ‘I’, so I’ll stop.

Gardens

Alley screen garden

Zone 5a This garden is a way to screen the alley and neighbor's garbage cans from view of my back door. It's also one of the few 'mostly' sunny planting ar...
- 7 plants
- 0 journals
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Back door garden

Zone 5a This is just outside my back door, the one that everyone we know uses.
- 2 plants
- 3 journals
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Backyard garden

Zone 5a My back yard. Has lots of trees, and is surrounded by chain link fence. Not great in the grass department, and has two swing sets and a large tract...
- 5 plants
- 4 journals
- 1 faves
- 0 comments
Front door garden

Zone 5a This is the front garden patch, that houses my roses and irises, and extends around the front (east) of the house. The eastern leg of the garden is...
- 5 plants
- 2 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments