They’re here. The squirrels. They’re here. I saw them a few weeks ago scampering across the edge of the roof and decided to ignore them. I choose not to recall my brother’s stories of squirrels …
Odds and Ends About Tools From Ida D. Bennett
I'm still plowing through the pages of The Flower Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Gardener by Ida D. Bennett (1910) and like a gardener who has stumbled across something while hoeing and stops to see …
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More 100 Year Old Advice from Ida D. Bennett
I've been continuing to read bits and pieces of The Flower Garden by Ida D. Bennett, published in 1910. After I posted Bennett's seed buying advice, the genealogy detective gardener, Annie in Austin, …
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100 Year Old Seed Buying Warnings For Today
Gather round. The fire is slowing burning down, the last embers fading, leaving just enough light for me to make out the writing in an old gardening book, The Flower Garden – A Manual for the Amateur …
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A Matter of Perspective
Come along with me, across the frozen field, to a place called Spring. When you look at this picture what is your first thought? a) What a tranquil winter scene! Those deer look so peaceful …
Potting Tidy
Do you know the proper name for this? The proper name for it is "Potting Tidy". I love having a potting tidy because it makes the whole business of potting up plants neater than say, laying out …
