This year, 2022, I'm going to grow lettuce like it's 1957. Until just this week, I've never had much luck, or for that matter, much interest in growing great crops of lettuce. Oh sure, like …
What is a floracrat?
I recently started reading Some Ancient Gentlemen: Being an Examination of Certain People, Plants and Gardens by Tyler Whittle (1966, Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. ) Ah, the good ol' days of …
How to Bring Joy Back to Gardening
Do you need some help to bring some joy back to your gardening life? Just remember Journey, Organic, and Years! Gardening takes you on a JOURNEY to destinations unknown and varied. Every trip …
Happy New Year, Twenty-Two
The old rabbit, Twenty-One, slowly packed his bags and started to head toward the garden gate, ready to meet Twenty-Two at the stroke of midnight. Just as Twenty had given him instructions a year …
Garden Fairies Reveal Christmas Secrets
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are going to answer the question being asked by gardeners everywhere. "What happens to poinsettias left in the stores over Christmas?" Well, we …
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Christmas Day Flower Count
Greetings of the season! Because it was in the upper 50s, lower 60s on Christmas Day—we got within one degree of the record high temperature of 64 degrees Fahrenheit set in 1893— I decided to go …
