Cold Climate Gardening

Mary emailed me and asked:
I understand that using seaweed in your garden helps the build the soil. How much seaweed do you use? And does the bromine in the seaweed help get rid of the bugs in turnip?
Now, the seashore is probably a four hour trip from here and I know nothing about seaweed. If […]

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I had read Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden a few years ago, and thought I might skip reading it for this book club, due to the press of other commitments. But I’m glad I didn’t.
No sooner did I crack the book open, than I came across this:
. . . a writer who gardens […]

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Perhaps it is a bit extreme to say “Paths make the garden,” but ever since I was a child paths have been an emotionally significant element to my enjoyment of a garden. I didn’t realize this until we moved to the rural 15 acres where we now live, when I struggled with how to turn […]

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I was one of several garden bloggers inteviewed by Doug Green for an article on garden blogging for The American Gardener, which is published by the American Horticultural Society. I thought the article was a good overview for beginners on the topic, not going too deeply into the technology behind blogging but maintaining accuracy.
Really, you […]

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There’s no more denying it: winter’s right around the corner. Wait! is that snow falling outside? Shucks. Winter is here. I’m not going to say “already” because there’s been other years when we’ve had enough snow to go sledding at this point, and that snow falling out there today is having a hard time sticking […]

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New Hampshire resident Mike Cherim is in the business of putting bad bugs out of business. I first contacted Mike because he offers a very secure contact form for WordPress. I later used his theme for my Blogging Art and Practice site. Then I discovered that before he started designing websites, he sold–and continues to […]

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Austin to OKC
While it was great to visit my friend Cynthia and the Austin bloggers, that was only an extra benefit to my trip. The Garden Writers Association symposium, my primary reason for traveling, was still ahead of me. Cynthia drove me to the airport very early on Friday morning, where I managed to have […]

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