Once up a time, there was a gardener named Sunny who had a beautiful garden.Sunny had carefully picked all the plants for her garden so that from early spring to late fall there were always …
What To Do With The Harvest
Close your eyes and taste a bite of my freshly picked cantaloupe, grown in my own vegetable garden. It is as good as it looks, and reminds me of my grandparents who always seemed to have cantaloupe …
Win A Cobrahead!
It was a happy Christmas in 2007 when Santa, well actually my niece, gave me a short-handled Cobrahead. I had given my family subtle hints that this is what I wanted for Christmas, mostly in the form …
Letters to Gardening Friends, August 16, 2009
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere,Hey, guess what finally came to my garden this week? I’ll give you a few hints. It’s hot and dry and makes you want to just sit in the shade …
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – August 2009
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for August 2009.August is what separates the real gardeners from the wanna-be gardeners. The days are hot, the bugs are everywhere, and many blooms that seemed so …
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Hortense Answers Questions About Tomatoes, Timeshares and Torrid Temps
Dear Hortense,I am so excited to be growing tomatoes in one of those Topsy Turvy® planters for the first time this year. Then my daughter came to visit and saw the blooms and said I should pinch those …
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