From Coop to Compost
Composting is one of my new favorite outdoor activities. I get really excited about taking junk from around the yard and kitchen and turning it into rich fertilizer for my garden. While, there are certainly more professional videos out there, this one makes me smile and reach for the shovel. Just one note. Being really…
A Seed Catalog for the Soul
I love to nurture and tend budding beauty and fruitfulness in my garden, but I have other canvases to paint.
Bloom Where You’re Planted
Georgia Girl I grew up in Georgia, but I don’t think I quite got that Georgia is different until recently. What do I mean? Reading gardening books and novels, I formed an idea of what a flower garden ought to be and what a vegetable garden should produce and what types of shrubbery should surround…
Peas… Pllease!
I continually admit, I don’t know what I’m doing! I’m just a person who loves to play in the dirt and watch pants grit. I’m not a master gardener. There must be a staggering amount if basic gardening rules which I just don’t know. Take peas for instance. It’s mid-winter here in middle Georgia. Just…
Gardening, aka, Playing in the Dirt
Childhood Bliss As a child, I loved to play in the dirt. I found many a happy place to do so: the sandbox, unpaved driveways, ditches, puddles. I consider the near omnipresence of dirt to be one of the best perks of living in the county. At one point, our neighbors dug out a space…
Why Garden Anyway
Why garden at all? That’s a simple question to answer! Because it’s fun! “What is Spring? New growth in everything.” (Gerard Manley Hopkins) Gardening is a constant participation in Spring. A gardener is continually in the service of growing things, be the current season Spring, Winter, Summer or Fall. Ok, I admit. There are a…
The Ultimate-Ultimate Master Gardener
I’ll begin with a quote from one of the worst books ever written: “We must cultivate our garden. I read Candide in college and abhorred it! There’s only one book that I have ever wanted to burn and this was it. My husband, however, says he thought it hilarious. The explanation for our polemic opinions?…
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