Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
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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If you are always waiting for a sunny day so you can get out and work in your garden, then you probably aren't going to have much of a garden.The best days to work in a garden are cloudy days, after a …
You can’t escape the past in your garden. Whether it is a good memory or a bad memory, it’s out there in your garden, waiting for you to find it, waiting for you to remember.While out weeding earlier …
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I think the days of this praying mantis are numbered. Eventually, it is going to get cold and we will have a frosty morning, but for now, summer weather continues.When will we have frost around here …
The garden essayists tell us, and tell us again, that fall is the time to get busy in the garden.“… but fall--not spring—is the great planting season for woody things. If, in other words, you had …
This mess is now gone. It contained a mixture of Ribbon Grass (probably Phalaris arundinacea), False Dragon's Head (Physostegia virginiana), and Four O'Clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) . I pulled it all out …
