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Weeding out the Wal-Marts

You have to admit, Wal-Marts seem to pop up like a weed. They are everywhere and most of the time when they show up, they are not really wanted. Personally, Wal-Mart is another store on my “I won’t shop there” Read more ›

AAACCCKKK! Bad garden things alert

AAACCCKKK! AAACCCKKK! AAACCCKKK! Deer Damage and Frost! Ugh. I found the deer damage yesterday afternoon. I suppose this is what I get for going all philosophical about the tulips. Good old Mother Nature sends me a reminder that you should Read more ›

Volunteer Peas? WTH

This is a volunteer pea. Honest to goodness! There are two of them in the old pea bed from last year (it’s a lettuce bed this year). I don’t think I have ever seen a volunteer pea in my life. Read more ›

Solace in the tulips

I don’t remember planting the tulips in the front of this picture. I think they were tulips that I planted when we first moved here. They bloomed the first year and after that they came up as a spindly leaf Read more ›

The weight of gardening catalogs

A few years ago, I use to work for a catalog company. And I learned a few interesting things about the direct marketing industry while I worked there. One of them was something called paper weight. Paper weight is literally Read more ›

Earth Day 2006

I suppose you can’t have a gardening blog and not talk about Earth Day on Earth Day. I am sort of an Earth acquaintance, instead of a friend. I am nice enough to the planet that it thinks I am Read more ›