It's the season for garden tours and I was reading about one that took place in my city a few weekends ago. One of the gardeners whose garden was going to be a part of the tour said something along …
Squash Watch, Lost Daylilies, and Lists
The daily "squash watch" has begun here at May Dreams Gardens.Every morning and every evening, I go out to the garden and check on the summer squash to see if there is one ready to harvest.I am …
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May Dreams Gardens Overtaken by Purslane
Not since Charles Dudley Warner wrote about purslane in his garden has there been a garden so infested with this weed as my very own vegetable garden here at May Dreams Gardens.He said they "grow as …
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Lessons from the Peas
We can learn a lot from growing peas in the garden, lessons that we can apply to any crop or flower or plant that we want to have success with.Lesson No. 1 is be prepared to plant at the proper …
May Dreams Gardens: After the Rain
Out in the garden today, if you hadn't been told or didn't see it for yourself, you wouldn't really notice that yesterday we had one of those 100 year rains.Technically, we had a 95 year rain, since …
Update on The Garden: June 1
Strawberries!Did you know I bought strawberries at the store today? Then I went out to the garden to see what was going on and found the first of the ripe strawberries.I didn't pick a lot of berries …
