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Are You Ready?
on Oct 29, 2009 in rabbits humor holidays Are you ready for the Halloween Hare to visit your garden?Did you set aside a few pieces of candy to appease him when he makes his midnight witching-hour call on your garden?What will he find? Or rather what will he not find? And if he doesn't find w...



A Gardener's Guide to "Time"
on Oct 27, 2009 in humor language of gardeners Given how quickly many gardeners learned and affirmed the gardener’s definitions for “quantities”, it is time to move on to how gardeners define “time”.So gather around all you new gardeners, here's some insider informaton on the language g...



A Gardener's Guide to "Quantities"
on Oct 26, 2009 in humor language of gardeners I thought it might be helpful to provide a gardener’s guide to “quantities” to help new gardeners speak the language of gardeners with more confidence.Here are six ways gardeners describe “quantities” and what they mean.A coupleWhen a garde...



Vegetable Garden Recap
on Oct 25, 2009 in vegetable garden The frost claimed what was left in the vegetable garden last week, leaving cold-blackened plants for me to pull out and add to the rapidly filling compost bins. I look now at the bare raised beds and see that once again, henbit is staking its claim f...



A Little Something on Fall Clean Up
on Oct 24, 2009 in gardening Inspired by the hard frost we had last weekend, I wrote a little piece on fall clean up for my Indy Garden Sense column in The Southside Times.Today, I'm going to begin some garden clean up of my own, starting with the garage. I believe the last time...



Plants Call The Tunes in Fall
on Oct 23, 2009 in fall gardening When I see headlines like this one in the newspaper,I first think, “Oh, good, the newspaper is finally covering more gardening topics.”But than I read the article and realize that once again, it isn’t about gardening, it’s about a factory.Of...