‘Round about this time of year I start to feel that I’m ready to glue my wallet shut. Enough! my inner Scotswoman screams. I know that come spring I will be yearning for every enticing green bauble that is on the market; but this is now, this is January, and I am so over it!
A disaster can be an opportunity to learn from our mistakes. Snow before Halloween? What a mess, misery for so many.
What can make a gardener miserable? Pervasive pollen. Potent pollen. Particle counts off-the-chart high. I was stuck in the air conditioning for much of the summer. Me! Misery!
Is it worth all the work that goes into a vegetable garden? Is it worth your financial investment?
What about farm shares, and farmer’s markets?
Like every other gardening question the answer is: it depends.
During the Dog Days at the beginning of August….
“Where the ‘eat would make your bloomin’ eyebrows crawl”.1
Yes it rained, never enough, or too much.
Down and dirty in the garden means: crawling around muddying your knees, sometimes laying in the dirt, often getting it in your hair and doing bad things to your shoes.
Snip…gotcha, poke me in the eye, will you. Ooof, this is just trouble waiting to happen, where’d I put that pruning saw?
I’m taking a position here on global warming, right here in this corner where I’m going to worry about coping with the what of it all. The pros are over in that corner worrying about the whys and the wherefores. If they ever come up with answers, I’m hoping they’ll let me know.
Climate zone numbers, that is. Since it is the time of year to plan for Spring and all the flavors of crazy that come with it, we need our planning tools all ready to go. Climate is the tag on the first branch of our ‘decision-making tree’ for the gardening year.
I almost broke my brain in Miami. The street trees were so very wrong. The landscaping made me cry. Generally I know what I’m looking at – and I like it that way – but house plants as median plantings, oh, no.