Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Next week, a landscaper and his crew will be coming to my garden to straighten up the edging around the beds in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral, put down a proper landscape fabric in the paths (the …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for March 2026. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6 garden in central Indiana, March has brought us winter, summer, and spring weather, and we're only half way …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for February 2026. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we've been enjoying warmer temperatures this past week, melting a bunch of the …
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Once again, we garden fairies must step in to save this blog from becoming stale and stagnant, boring and bothersome. And we will do just that by providing an update of sorts and perhaps answering …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2026. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we are enjoying a mild winter. There's no snow on the ground, and the frigid …
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The old rabbit, Twenty-Five, stood just inside the garden gate, waiting for Twenty-Six to arrive and take over the garden. As he stood with his bag in hand, he checked his watch and the list he'd made …
