Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Just give me five minutes and a good hoe, and I can clear out one of the raised beds in my vegetable garden and have it ready for planting.Yesterday morning, this bed was full of little weeds.But in …
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Hoes. They seem like such simple, basic tools, some with designs not changed for eons, others newly fashioned, but yet still simple.But even simple hoes can teach us lessons about gardening, and about …
Hoe week continues here at May Dreams Gardens with a history of sorts of my hoe collection.How does someone end up with a collection of hoes?How does anyone end up with a collection of anything?How …
Seeing my dwarf iris bloom this weekend kind of caught me by surprise. I went out into the back yard Saturday morning and there it was in all its purple glory.I only have a few other bearded irises, …
One of the secrets to being happy as a gardener is to embrace weeding.No matter what kind of garden you have, as soon as you cultivate the earth and plant what you want to grow, the weeds will begin …
Is there a part of your garden that just has you mesmerized right now?I always like the front of my house best around this time of year when this bed of tulips starts to bloom.This first picture is …
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