Vineyard Gardener
I love rain. Unless it is torrential or there is lightning. I can put on appropriate clothing and be outside. I never mind being wet.
I’ve just about had it with fighting Mother Nature. Between the bugs and bunnies in the vegetable garden, fleas in the house, a huge deer in the...
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I’m much happier in the sixties. I’m talking temperature not the decades, although that works, too! What a week — nationwide. I am very grateful...
I have two methods of last resort for weeding. I take a shovel to the huge clumps of grass and flop them over.
I could never live in Florida or Arizona. I’d rather it snow than be 90 degrees and humid. The Weather Channel reported 117 degrees in Phoenix.
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On some of the job sites I have been busy deadheading. The Nepeta and Blue Queen salvia both have seen better days. Both will rebloom nicely in a...
How is it possible for weeds to grow waist high with no pest damage when the favored crop is bug-eaten and pathetic? It is becoming difficult to...
I received the AARP magazine in the mail. Now there is a publication I never thought I would receive, much less enjoy.
I think my brain exits my body through a pen. Every time I write something down it is gone forever from my mind.
I hate to complain about the weather when it has been positively beautiful for the past week or so. I need rain. I know you nongardeners out there...
I wonder when Decoration Day turned into Memorial Day? As a child, I believe it was used interchangeably. I thought of geraniums and cemeteries.
It is awfully early in the gardening year to be facing discouragement. I leave flats of perfectly beautiful seedlings sitting here and there.