All hail the peas!It is once again time for the Feast of the First Peas here at May Dreams Gardens. Festivities include eating a few peas right in the garden, admiring the beautiful pea vines, picking …
Protect Your Beans
Every gardener discovers upon planting a vegetable garden that they are unwittingly forced into battle for sovereignty over that very garden, for control, for first rights to the harvest. They must …
Letters to Gardening Friends, May 3, 2009
Dear Dee and Mary Ann,Isn’t this the prettiest bowl of lettuce and spinach?I think so, but then I might be biased because those are the thinnings from my lettuce patch, harvested earlier this morning. …
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Letters to Gardening Friends, April 12, 2009
Dear Dee and Mary Ann,Easter Greetings from May Dreams Gardens.What a beautiful day we had in central Indiana. We had a bit of frost in the morning, but ended up with clear blue skies and temperatures …
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Letters to Gardening Friends, April 5, 2009
This is the fifth letter in a weekly series of letters that I’m exchanging with. Dee from Red Dirt Ramblings in Oklahoma (zone 7a) and Mary Ann, the Idaho Gardener in Idaho (zone 6) to highlight the …
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Migratory Path of Rabbits, Right Through My Garden?
I now believe that my garden may have been built on a long-established migratory path used by generations of rabbits to traverse through this land, which was at one time a field of some kind.The …
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