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Turtle in Chief
Sep 10, 20202 min read
Fall Draws Nigh
Labor Day weekend with is storybook perfect weather is over. It was warm yet breezy, and most importantly, not humid. Let's hope this...
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Turtle in Chief
Aug 28, 20202 min read
Drought-Defying Plants
It's August. It's hot, and it's dry. This is normal for southeast Ohio, but that doesn't mean I don't complain regularly about the...
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Turtle in Chief
Jul 20, 20201 min read
Midsummer Update 2020
Check out what's happening on the farm: A new gnome has arrived and taken up residence in the shade bed. Who wouldn't choose this...
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Turtle in Chief
May 25, 20202 min read
Plants for Paradise
When you're in the business of selling plants, you're going to do everything you can to sell more plants. To this end, the landscape...
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Turtle in Chief
May 20, 20202 min read
Start with Soil
What do beginning gardeners need to know to succeed, when success means getting an acceptable harvest and not feeling like they are...
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Turtle in Chief
May 8, 20202 min read
April Showers, May Blizzards
Spring is in full swing. The multitudinous shades of green are eye-wateringly intense. Perennials are popping up everywhere in sight, as...
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Turtle in Chief
Apr 14, 20201 min read
Tadpole Paradise
What better way to pass time while we're stuck at home than watch tadpoles develop? Check out the population: https://youtu.be/QoP1E3okEPE
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Turtle in Chief
Mar 27, 20202 min read
Victory Garden 2.0
Much has changed since my last post. The bars are closed. No one has money. Preppers are no longer viewed as paranoid fringe-dwellers,...
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Turtle in Chief
Mar 9, 20203 min read
Post climate change denial
It's great to see climate change in the news as if it is settled science (it is), but it is possible that we have moved beyond climate...
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 23, 20201 min read
February 23, 2020
Things are happening at Turtle Paradise. The digging continues.
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 15, 20201 min read
February 15 2020
We don't mess around here at Turtle Paradise. Check out the progress. https://youtu.be/ro9hCV_BD98
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Food, my favorite thing
I love gardening and all its associated tasks: mulching, weeding, planting, and harvesting. Most of all I like eating. Gardening is great...
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 31, 20202 min read
February, almost
It's been an extremely mild winter here in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Not the warmest I can remember, but temperatures have definitely been...
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 28, 20203 min read
You knew this was coming
It's in these last few days of January that even the strongest among us feel ourselves to be on the edge of what used to be called...
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 16, 20201 min read
Turtle pond progress
Check out the turtle pond progress: https://youtu.be/UltjHFcXMfo
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Turtle in Chief
Dec 15, 20193 min read
Paradise building
The great Gene Logsdon was of the belief that if people would realize that traveling was overrated, and work on turning the spot where...
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Turtle in Chief
Dec 9, 20192 min read
Gene Logsdon, the Contrary Farmer
"Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile...
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Turtle in Chief
Dec 1, 20192 min read
Whittle a whammydiddle
Here at Turtle Paradise we acknowledge that the 70's was the best decade ever. However, a lot of great stuff came out of the 80's too,...
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Turtle in Chief
Nov 6, 20192 min read
Always grow something fun
This photograph shows off my Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo), the hardiest of the bananas, which is thriving in zone 6 here in Ohio....
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