Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
I recently read the greatest sentence every written about gardening. If you don't have much time, here it is. "...Gardening simply corrodes the character." If you have a bit more time, allow …
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Now, where were we? Oh yes, my last post was about the Garden Bloggers Challenge sponsored by GardenComm, and I believe I ended that post with May 5th. Shall we get caught up? For May 6, the …
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Short Version: My 2025 gardening motto, perhaps my motto for all gardening going forward, is taken from The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. "Don't let us make it tidy...It wouldn't …
Sit down over there on that garden bench while I continue to dig dandelions out of the lawn, and we can have a nice little garden chat. Yes, that is saffron crocus blooming in a bed out in the …
What's your reward for making it through another gardening season, hopefully mostly intact, with good memories of lovely flowers and ripe tomatoes? A pat on the back? Pat, pat, pat. A kind …
This, my friends, is my black bean harvest. It is about three-fourths of a cup. And these beans tell us all we need to know about gardening. First, though some of us may appear to spend quite a …
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