Advanced Gardening Tips
Here’s a mini-series of advanced gardening tips for you. It’s a 3-week (free) series of tips delivered right to your inbox. I’ll look forward to hearing whether you like them or can use them. Japanese Iris
What Would It Take To Make You Give Up Gardening
Amy Stewart (who I admire a great deal) just wrote one of her wonderful posts on Garden Rant. Now, the reason I think it’s so wonderful is because it encapsulates what some of us go through every now and then and asks a very pertinent question. It’s not that we don’t like what we do [...]
Pink Slipped and I Don’t Care
Ever notice how there are weeks where your life becomes clearer (and conversely muddier). Sometimes, in the world of a writer, the words flow effortlessly, the thoughts are clear and life is sweet. And sometimes, it’s like pulling words from toffee. Each word comes away grudgingly and sticky sweet. You love each of the words [...]
Relax for Crying Out Loud
So here’s the thing; this is one of those psychological columns I never write. But I should – at least once or twice every year. I want to tell you that it’s OK, it’s just fine to make a mess of your gardening. I can’t tell you how many gardeners I meet, otherwise fine upstanding, [...]
Random Thoughts
Random thoughts on a Sunday night. The Princess tells me we have a bumper seed germination of Lemon Cilantro. This is very good news except I don’t like cilantro. I may have to learn. Installed a high-pressure sodium grow light in basement. 150 watts and it burns your eyes if you look directly at it. [...]
Gardening Together
I’ve known more than one gardening couple – some famous, some not-so-famous and some who should remain anonymous for their own safety. It’s a tough thing to garden together; let me tell you how we solved and are indeed still solving, this problem. Some of you know that my partner is Mayo Underwood, an heirloom [...]
Garden Resolutions 2009
Every year it seems I make some kind of resolution about gardening and every summer it seems to go by the wayside. I’m not sure what this says something about my ability to make and keep resolutions, my inner fantasy ambitions about gardening or even some weather and garden gremlins that conspire to keep me [...]
