Ask not for whom the flower blooms, the flower blooms for thee, the gardener.Oh, how we wish that were true! Then we could command flowers to bloom whenever it pleased us for them to bloom. But we …
Protect Your Beans
Every gardener discovers upon planting a vegetable garden that they are unwittingly forced into battle for sovereignty over that very garden, for control, for first rights to the harvest. They must …
False Pelargoniums
At some point in a gardener’s education, whether through book-learnin’ or in the school-of-hard-clay-soil-and-dead-plants, a gardener will learn or be told that what they call “geraniums” are not the …
Letters to Gardening Friends, May 24, 2009
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and gardening friends everywhere,I can’t believe it, or maybe I can. We’ve gone from a light frost early last Monday morning to steady temperatures in the 80’s and my first …
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Beginning of Summer at May Dreams Gardens
Do you know when summer begins? You will probably say that it begins on June 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM, but that is not true here. Here, summer begins much earlier, at least for me. And it is in just a …
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Let Us Weed With The Let-Us Weeder!
Where would you try out a new hoe called the Let-Us Weeder®?It's not a trick question! Of course you would want to try it out in a patch of lettuce, and that's just what I did this evening.Lowell's …
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