Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
There comes a time for every gardener when the numbers just don’t seem to add up the way they should.I’ve been reviewing the list of vegetables I’m planning to grow in my vegetable garden, all 492 …
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How big is your vegetable garden?As we all compare notes on seed purchases, tomato varieties, and radish choices, I wonder what size gardens others are planting.My own vegetable garden is set up as …
I’m feeling very fortunate, even lucky, to have found these first crocus blooms in my garden on the last day of February.If I would have found these two purple bloom-buds on the first day of March it …
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Don’t you just love it when you think you got a good deal?I thought it was a good deal to get two hyacinth blooms out of one bulb. In fact, several of my hyacinth bulbs had more than one bloom this …
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For instant gratification in the sporosphilia (seed sowing) world, radishes are it.“Instant” is just three weeks from sowing to harvesting for some radish varieties like ‘Cherry Belle’. That really is …
The tomato is the Queen of the Vegetable Garden!When I plan out my vegetable garden, I always choose my tomato varieties first, decide which raised beds to plant them in, and then plan out the rest of …
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