Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Upon close inspection, I find that not all tomato blossoms are the same. In this collage, the top blossom will one day be a ‘Reisetomate’ tomato, a very odd tomato that looks like a bunch of little …
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I’ve been growing my own tomato plants from seeds almost every year since 1987. Yes, there were a few years amongst those twenty plus years when I got lazy and bought tomato plants, but most years, I …
The answer to the question is Homegrown Vegetables, Fruits, and Herb by Jim Wilson, photographed by Walter Chandoha (Creative Homeowner, $16.95) The question is what book will I recommend the next …
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The news from in and out of my garden..I’m still picking green beans and it’s almost October. These beans are from my third sowing of green beans this season. Using some seed I had left over, I …
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Once up a time, there was a gardener named Sunny who had a beautiful garden.Sunny had carefully picked all the plants for her garden so that from early spring to late fall there were always …
Are you having a good cucumber year?I’m having a great cucumber year. In fact, it is such a good cucumber year that I can’t keep up with picking all of them, and so there are a bunch of big, overgrown …
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