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Which category best describes you?: Landscape Service Provider, Garden Blogger

Skill level: Expert

Web Site, Blog or Other Profile Page (No Emails Please): http://www.obsessedmidwestgardener.com

What kind of gardening do you like to do?: perennials, vegetables, fruit

How much time do you spend a week on average in your garden when weather permits?: 40

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Professional Gardener, Garden Blogger & Owner of a Landscape Contracting Business

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I think I saw a faerie in my garden!

Posted on April 8, 2011 at 8:45am 0 Comments 0 Likes

Note About Crocus Colors

Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:51am 0 Comments 0 Likes

See all that dirty lookin' white stuff? Those are crocus flowers! If they were another color, wouldn't this be exciting?

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Everybody wants to know what CAN we do this time of year?

Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:53am 0 Comments 2 Likes

I keep plenty busy:

Start vegetables and annuals indoors in plugs with a heat mat.

Transplant plugs to pots.

Cold hardy vegetables gets carried outside during the day, things like cabbage broccoli and other kohl crops, parsley, lettuce, spinach, kale.

Warm-season vegetables gets transplanted into bigger pots and go under lights or in sunny windows until it is warm outside (This is how I grow okra in Wisconsin.)

Spring blooming shrubs get a tiny hair cut so…

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Solving the biggest problems in the Gardening Business:

Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:32am 0 Comments 1 Like

At conferences this winter, many companies are coming out with functional, biodegradable pots.

The only thing don't like about gardening is the plastic pot waste. Hooray for solutions!!!!

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Obsessed Midwest Gardener's album was featured

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Mar 29, 2012

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Obsessed Midwest Gardener received a gift from Noelle Kaler

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Apr 30, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener and Carole Moyer z3/MN are now friends

Apr 25, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Obsessed Midwest Gardener's photo

Yellow tulip with geranium maculatum

"Thank you Anna. It is utter simplicity, but has been my all time favorite garden photo for many years. www.obsessedmidwestgardener.com"

Apr 21, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Pat Koltz's blog post Dogs and landscaping . . . ugh!

"We have border collies and extensive gardens, so I feel your pain. Our solution: Lot's of morning exercise for the dogs. The two year old needs an hour a day chasing the ball (you MUST have a chuck-it). The older dog…"

Apr 21, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Aleatha Carpenter's group Midwest Gardeners

"I blogged today about pruning Red-Twigged Dogwood in the April snow. www.obsessedmidwestgardener.com"

Apr 21, 2011

Anna commented on Obsessed Midwest Gardener's photo

Yellow tulip with geranium maculatum

"Beautiful!"

Apr 20, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Aleatha Carpenter's group Midwest Gardeners

"Hello fellow Midwest gardeners. Are any of you all obsessed, too. What did you think of the snow we got on Monday? Anybody see any frost damage yet?"

Apr 20, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener joined Aleatha Carpenter's group

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Midwest Gardeners share unique challenges and discoveries for gardening in our climate.

Apr 20, 2011

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Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Obsessed Midwest Gardener's photo

Fairy Bath

"Pink Impression Tulips have the strongest stems."

Apr 20, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Obsessed Midwest Gardener's photo

Life is Good, Ain't it?

"Pink Impression are the tall tulips. The shorter ones, in the front, are Lady Jane. The dark red is our local trillium. "

Apr 20, 2011

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Apr 20, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener joined Community Manager's group

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Apr 18, 2011

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Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Woody's Custom Landscaping Woody's video

Residential Landscape Construction

"Nice circle with the pavers."

Apr 17, 2011

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Yellow tulip with geranium maculatum

Spring makes winter worth it in Wisconsin.www.obsessedmidwestgardener.com

Apr 17, 2011

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Obsessed Midwest Gardener replied to Andi,zone 5 Ohio's discussion Purchasing Beneficial Insects in the group Organic

"I have done this with Praying Mantis. No work, lots of fun to watch them after they hatch & we saw them around the neighborhood all summer. www.obsessedmidwestgardener.com"

Apr 17, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Jeannie's blog post Bamboo questions

"I don't know of a clumping bamboo for zone 5b that gets as tall as you want---and I don't know of anybody who was planted a running bamboo who has not regretted the decision. Keeping anything 1-2 feet off of the patio is going to be…"

Apr 17, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Marybeth Brauman's blog post I have ants in my garden!

"With all due respect, ants do not eat peonies. There is a species of ant that thrives on the nectar of peonies, and so they are very active on them, and ants are often accused of being the culprit when there is damage, but it is not the ants.…"

Apr 17, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener and Jim Garroutte are now friends

Apr 17, 2011

Obsessed Midwest Gardener commented on Marybeth Brauman's blog post I have ants in my garden!

"Ants are good!"

Apr 9, 2011

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At 11:28am on April 30, 2011, Noelle Kaler gave Obsessed Midwest Gardener a gift…: Red Ribbon
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At 1:02am on April 8, 2011, Julie z3-4 WI said…: Thanks for friending me! I was reading your blog and I really enjoy what you say and do. Many many blessings!!!