Dear Hortense, Greetings on a fine summer's morning! I very much appreciated how quickly you responded to my letter about the Green Bandana Garden Club. Somehow, I knew you would know something …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – July 2011
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2011! Here in my USDA hardiness zone 5b garden, the coneflowers, Echinacea purpurea, are creating a swath of bloom that will carry that section of the …
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Pay Dirt
A sign should have flashed above me to warn me that I was about to fall into a rabbit hole when I found this book at a local antique mall. Pay Dirt by J. I. Rodale, copyright 1945. Forward by …
Testing a Hypothesis
Over the past two days, I’ve observed something several times which has led me to develop a hypothesis. Then I went looking on the Internet for how to test my hypothesis and ran into all kinds of …
Soybeans in my Vegetable Garden
Anyone know what this new-to-me vegetable is in my garden this season? If you guessed Glycine max, soybeans, you would be correct! In particular this is 'Midori Giant' from Nature's Crossroads, …
A Letter from Hortense
Dear Carol, I knew I would get a letter from you once you found the green bandana hanging from your locust tree. It didn’t take you long to write either! First, let me say that news of your …
