Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
If you don't fall in love with your garden all over again in the fall, then perhaps you don't love your garden at all? It's easy to love a garden in the springtime when every plant seems fresh and …
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'Tis the season of the Pawpaw and I've been going out every day, sometimes twice a day, to check on the fruit on one of my little pawpaw trees. What? You've never heard of our native fruit tree, the …
The conundrum was how to do enough clean up to make it look like someone regularly tends this garden without doing all the clean up so there would be something to clean up once they came. Such was my …
The goldenrods are just about ready to bloom which means it is time to get ready for spring. Get ready for spring, you ask? Thank you for asking. So often we think of late summer and fall as the …
It was that kind of gentle, quiet rustling that makes you think someone is trying to sneak up on you while you've got your head down in the squash plants trying to find those little hidden squashes …
What in the name of gardening is going on here? I left my garden for six days and apparently, the rain—the abundant, wet, wonderful rain—left, too. Upon my return I found a dry garden. I expected my …
