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Basil Decimation

June 24, 2009

My daughter just went out to her garden and found all her basil seedlings snipped off and left. Not eaten and not even wilted yet.

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Three gardening books for children

November 18, 2008

any gardening books for children take what I think of as the art project approach: here’s what you need, this is what you do, isn’t that cute?, now show it to Grandma. Very few books out there take children–or a child’s interest in gardening–seriously.
I prefer to regard children as apprentice gardeners, gradually acquiring more skills [...]

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Mike Cherim of Green Methods: Ensuring that good bugs rule!

November 8, 2007

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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The brown marmorated stink bug

March 11, 2007

One thing about an old house, there are lots of nooks and crannies for creatures to find their way in. It’s a fact of life. Call it sharing habitat. While we try to minimize it, there is no way we can keep everything out, especially since our house is on a stacked stone foundation and [...]

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