Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
The logistics are a bit complicated, but they involved two twin mattresses, my truck, some passalong hostas, finding a window of opportunity (WOO) to haul the mattresses from my sister-in-law to my …
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Out in the garden, the quamash is starting to bloom. This particular one is Camassia leichtlinii coerulea 'Blue Sky'. I planted bulbs for it last fall after seeing quamash in bloom the previous …
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Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, I’ll start off by announcing that the “salad days” have begun here at May Dreams Gardens, beginning with the first salad pictured here. It …
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Is weeding in flower beds that are hopefully going to be dug up and expanded soon sort of like dusting the furniture in a house right before you plan to tear down walls for remodeling? No? Good, …
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And suddenly, I found I was on an unexpected pilgrimage. In the preface to her book The Little Bulbs: A Tale of Two Gardens, one of my favorite garden writers, Elizabeth Lawrence, wrote, “This is a …
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I will say it again and again and again. The best way to grow vegetables is in raised beds. Once you’ve set the bed up, you won’t have to wait each spring for conditions to be “just right” to till up …
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