Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Ready for winter? In your garden? I think I am, and even if I wasn't we got a good amount of rain overnight so it's too wet to do much in the garden today. It's an inside day. But if it was …
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The old joke—and I mean old—is to be careful what you say in a garden because the corn has ears. But who cares what the corn hears? There's not a kernel of truth in what they might repeat! …
You might think I'm about to unload a bunch of advice about what to clean up in the garden in the fall. I am not. I will let the toad do most of the talking. What toad? This toad that I …
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"Someone forgot to tell the violets it's not spring." That's the text message I got from my older sister yesterday afternoon when I was out mowing the lawn, and she was out puttering in her …
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When I slipped those little seedlings of yellow Profusion zinnias along the front of the flower border, I knew there were also bulbs there. Lots of them. In the spring, reticulated irises come up …
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I received an unexpected card in the mail yesterday, with a little note and an old 3 cent gardening stamp enclosed. The sender found the stamp in her father's papers and immediately thought, "Carol …
