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Friday, February 08, 2008
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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All of this snow has me antsy to get started growing. To start off my 2008 diary, I have an aerial photo of our acreage near Anamosa. Our 12 acres are outlined in yellow, with my gardens in smaller yellow shapes. With all of the timber in the neighborhood, you can see why I have problems with deer and other critters. The larger creek bottom patch is 50' lower elevation than the house, 100' lower than our east fence, and 150' lower than the ridge top to the east. That is why I have reduced morning and evening sunlight and why cool air sinks in there in the evening. Still it is very fertile alluvial soil. Our flooding problems have been greatly reduced since our neighbors built a large pond upstream. Still we have to take our chances. The rest of our ground is just too steep for growing pumpkins.
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