Time to put my money where my heart is When I was in college, I lived in a third-floor walkup with two fellow students. Whenever anyone shut the front door to the building, all the tenants felt the resulting vibrations. And we subconsciously monitored the sound of footsteps on the stairs, calculating in the back [...]
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What kind of a seed buyer are you?
January 2, 2007 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingCarol at May Dreams Gardens wrote a series of thought-provoking questions on the gardener's relationship to seeds. I decided to answer in my own blog, and I hope you do, too. More intriguing and less silly than all those memes going around. Do you carefully read all of the seed catalogs sent to you and [...]
Santa came today
May 4, 2005 – Posted in: AcquisitionsOkay, it wasn't really Santa Claus. It was just the mail lady and the UPS man, bringing my two plant orders of the season on the same day. But I felt the same excitement I had felt as a kid on Christmas morning as I made my way down the stairs, wondering if Santa had [...]
Confessions of Another Seedaholic
January 10, 2004 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingThe Bookish Gardener has recently posted her seedlist. And her husband was complaining about how many seeds she's bought. He doesn't know how good he's got it. What if she was a hosta-holic? One latest-and-greatest hosta probably costs more than all her seed orders combined. She keeps track of her seed sowing using a spreadsheet, [...]
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