Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Shall we harken back to 1926 for some tomato-growing advice? Why not? After all, I've already tried, with pretty good success, growing lettuce like it's 1957. And I'm attempting to get my …
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Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are here to assess the seed situation that someone's shopping of seed sales has caused. Honestly, we are kind of proud of Carol for buying seeds …
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Today I pulled The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction for the Amateur by Louise Shelton (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909) off my shelf to see what she wrote about …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2024. And Happy New Year. Here in my USDA Hardiness supposedly zone 6b garden in central Indiana, we are experiencing the same artic blast of …
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I'm pleased to bring you a bit of gardening wisdom from 1935, from the book Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle by Clare Leighton. The picture I've chosen to go with this wisdom is just a random, …
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are here to provide you dear readers with a report on winter so far. Now, before we go into details, we garden fairies must remind everyone that …
