Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
This is the third 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). It's about 750 …
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Welcome, Spring! Welcome to the vernal equinox, the very beginning of spring, which is at 7:44 AM EDT on March 20th.Welcome, too, the Rites of Spring in and out of my garden.I performed an important …
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There comes a time for every gardener when the numbers just don’t seem to add up the way they should.I’ve been reviewing the list of vegetables I’m planning to grow in my vegetable garden, all 492 …
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In just two months, give or take, I’ll be out in the garden planting ‘Green Arrow’* peas and lettuce and onions.It will be a beautiful early spring day when I get the wheelbarrow out of the garage, …
August is the month for tomatoes at May Dreams Gardens.What generally starts as a trickle seems to rapidly turn into a deluge of tomatoes of all shapes, sizes, and tastes.I’m a traditionalist when it …
Right before I went to sleep last night, I was thinking about how the raccoons had ravaged my sweet corn. And then I suddenly realized I had made a tactical error in what appears to be a new battle …
