Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Over the weekend, I used wooden stakes and string to mark where the new beds will be in the vegetable garden. I measured, staked, and strung, then stepped back to view the layout.It was then that I …
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Garden fairies here! We garden fairies hope you fine folks get all excited when we decide to post because you should know by now that we are going to spill the beans on what's really going on around …
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Tulipa biflora “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” ~ William Shakespeare It occurred to me as I stood on the edge of the recently cleared vegetable garden on Sunday that I only needed …
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Finally, I have a drawing of the basic shape of the vegetable garden so I can figure out how I want to lay out the raised beds. The drawing not only reveals the isosceles trapezoid shape of the …
Harvest from the vegetable garden A few answers to some questions about my vegetable garden. How big is it? Follow along and I’ll tell you how big it is. For those who studied geometry “some time …
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The potter has her lump of clay. The sculptor has his chunk of marble. The artist has his clean canvas. The writer has her blank sheet of paper. And the gardener? The gardener has her cleared plot …
