Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Pull up a lawn chair and let’s talk about mowers and mowing for a minute. Remember when I last mowed the lawn? You don’t remember? Well, I can hardly forget that last mowing because I mowed with a …
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Alrighty now, I’ve enjoyed Winter but now it is time for it to go. Unfortunately, the calendar seems stuck on January and then there is February with all its snow and ice followed by half of March …
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The door creaked as I slowly opened it, announcing to any who might be inside the shed that someone was entering. I could imagine garden fairies scurrying to their hiding places and actually saw a few …
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I was going through a big stack of clay pots one day, sorting them by size and wondering where they all came from. Since most of the plants I’ve purchased in the last umpteen years were generally …
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Having found three of the five secrets to achieving happiness in your garden, I was on “high alert” for signs of the fourth secret. As I walked around the garden each day, I found myself stopping to …
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I couldn’t believe I had been so careless, so cavalier, about one of my old hoes! Normally, I don’t try to use the older hoes for any actual hoeing, especially those with their original wood handles, …
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