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    Gardening
    Kachemak Gardener: Will a pandemic inspire you to plant a vegetable garden?
    Kachemak Gardener: Will a pandemic inspire you to...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • March 18, 2020 5:30 am

    So, a pandemic. Is this what it will take to convince you to plant a vegetable garden? A well thought…

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    Kachemak Gardener: Here are some random thoughts on gardening
    Kachemak Gardener: Here are some random thoughts on...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • February 19, 2020 5:30 am

    Having crossed the threshold of my seventh decade I will be doing a few things differently. The one that you…

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    Kachemak Gardener: Until next year …
    Kachemak Gardener: Until next year …
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • November 20, 2019 5:30 am

    Rosemary Fitzpatrick is a longtime Homer gardener and has been writing Kachemak Gardener since 1990.

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    Kachemak Gardener: Why wait for a crisis to help out in each other’s gardens?
    Kachemak Gardener: Why wait for a crisis to...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • November 6, 2019 5:30 am

    So there is my friend Nancy and she has hit a bump in the road. That would be enough for…

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    Dwarf Korean lilac, dwarf red twig dogwood, Miss Kim lilac, full size dogwood and a Shubert chokecerry fill out the space by the Kachemak Gardener’s balcony in this photo taken Oct. 12, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick)
    Kachemak Gardener: Your garden is for you, so...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • October 23, 2019 5:30 am

    For the past three years I have subscribed to “The English Garden.” Each and every issue is packed with dazzling…

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    Jane Wiebe’s wheelbarrow of lovely tubers will cause any potato aficionado’s heart to sing. The photo was taken on Oct. 7, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Jane Wiebe)
    Kachemak Gardener: Arrival of fall brings relief after...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • October 9, 2019 5:30 am

    After the most frenetic summer within recent memory the slow but sure arrival of fall is a relief.

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    Kachemak Gardener: Garden journal helps map out next season
    Kachemak Gardener: Garden journal helps map out next...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • September 25, 2019 5:30 am

    This latest rainfall has been a boon. Once again the weeds are easily removed instead of chiseling them out from…

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    A window flower box at the Kachemak Gardener’s home shows waning begonias but enthusiastic pansies and lobelia on Sept. 6, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick)
    Kachemak Gardener: Take time to smell the roses
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • September 11, 2019 5:30 am

    Now that the harvest season is winding down, I have more time to actually cook with what I’ve grown. I…

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    Kachemak Gardener:	Let the garden thrive and have its head
    Kachemak Gardener: Let the garden thrive and have...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • August 28, 2019 5:30 am

    Smoke.

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    Green Globe artichokes thriving and soon to be harvested on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, in the Kachemak Gardener’s home in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick)
    Kachemak Gardener: Weather is scary but artichokes are...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • August 14, 2019 5:30 am

    Of all the years to run out of lettuce it had to be this one. There has been a steady…

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    Cottage pinks, asiatic lilies, heuchera, thalictrum, all happily cohabitate in a very unplanned perennial bed at the Kachemak Gardener’s garden in this photo taken on July 28, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick)
    Kachemak Gardener: Fast and Furious gardening season has...
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • July 31, 2019 5:30 am

    FAST AND FURIOUS. That’s what this growing season is handing us, the first one the likes of this that I…

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    Grands Marguerite Vallee, Cecilia Fitzpatrick and Genevieve Vallee seek shade, solace, companionship and Doritos under the lilacs on the Fourth of July in the Kachemak Gardener’s garden. (Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick)
    Kachemak Gardener: Share gardens through neighborhood stroll
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • July 17, 2019 5:30 am

    What better way to share a whole street worth of gardens than to have a “Garden Stroll?” I got the…

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    “Blooming azaleas — what a delight,” the Kachemak Gardener said on June 28, 2019, of the flowers in her Homer, Alaska, garden. “These are two of these shrubs here that manage a burst of color each year.” (Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick)
    Kachemak Gardener: Think about vegetable possibilities
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • July 3, 2019 5:30 am

    We took a walk on the Eveline Trail specifically to view the wildflowers. We were just in time, they are…

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