Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
With just two months to go until Christmas, I'm already picking up hints from my mom and others that I should be putting together a list of what I want for Christmas. Hints like, "what do you want for …
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Gray skies are going to cheer us, we have a happy face...What? Those aren't the words to the song??They should be, at least around May Dreams Gardens here in central Indiana. It's been raining off and …
Are you feeling a bit behind in your fall garden clean up work? Do you think that you just can’t get it all done before the snow flies, or the rains come, or whatever happens in your neck of the woods …
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My original title for this post was going to be "$1.07 Won't Even Buy Me A Glass of Iced Tea".A while back, I posted about how I was taking back some overgrown planting beds, reclaiming them from …
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My compost bins sit half-emptied, exactly as I left them yesterday. The bin on the right is the one I emptied first, and then I put the top layers of uncomposted material into that bin. Then I moved …
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I thought it might help those of you who deal with issues of "closure" if I provided some updates on recent events here at May Dreams Gardens.Moles. As it turns out, I am as poor a trapper of moles as …
