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Weather woes
April 13, 2009
Nothing accomplished

I had hoped to get a lot done over the weekend, but life intervened.

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Posted at 03:24 PM
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April 03, 2009
Saving rain

It's a downpour this Friday afternoon.

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Posted at 02:08 PM
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February 27, 2009
Storm damage

When I woke up Monday morning, a huge maple branch had fallen into one of our largest rhododendrons.

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Posted at 10:25 AM
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December 15, 2008
Ice everywhere

Once the power came back on, the big worry at our house was the ornamental trees.

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Posted at 11:17 AM
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July 24, 2008
A rant

Enough already. Please stop. Moss is growing between my fingers.

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Posted at 09:11 AM
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May 28, 2008
Caving in

We gave up and watered our garden over the weekend

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Posted at 09:21 PM
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June 29, 2007
Weathermen

Don't trust the weatherman to get the water to your rose (sung to "Subterranean Homesick Blues")

All this week we have been promised a chance of showers, and yesterday a line of thunderstorms was going to bring us rain and relieve the heat.

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Posted at 01:44 PM
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June 01, 2007
perfect rain

Gardeners have a love/hate relationship with rain. The plants need it, but it keeps us from getting out in the garden. But Friday morning was perfect.

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May 21, 2007
Soggy weekend

We cut our first lilacs this weekend, which always brings a nice aroma to the house. I love lilac time. But with the soggy weather, that and picking asparagus was about all the gardening we did.

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Tom Atwell has written the Maine Gardener column in the Maine Sunday Telegram since the spring of 2004. He has worked at the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram since 1974, about the same time he started gardening with any seriousness.

He gardens with his wife, Nancy. She not only is the better gardener of the pair, but also knows the botanical names of plants. They have two grown children and three grandchildren.

Tom was born in Skowhegan, grew up in Farmington and graduated from the University of Maine with a BA in journalism. His goal each year is to have continuous compost from his three compost bins, continuous bloom in his low-maintenance garden and more fruits and vegetables on his family table than the garden pests eat in the field.



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