L’Chayim! (Sorry, didn’t mean to spit in the screen.) It is time to harvest the horseradish. Do you know how I know that? Because it is almost Passover. Horseradish is one of the things that is traditionally served in the… Read more ›
I can remember it like it was just a few weeks ago. I was all proud of my little tomato seedlings. They were growing up so big and strong, putting out all kinds of healthy green leaves. I took them… Read more ›
…..AANANNANANNANANNANANNANANANNANANA….. We interrupt your regularly scheduled garden blog for this important peony announcement. This is a public peony service announcement. This is not a test. The following information is meant to help keep the peony population at large safe from… Read more ›
She has a daffodil beauty, but in repose her face is strangely tragic… –Edith Sitwell about Marilyn Monroe I have a confession to make. I have always had a school girl crush on Marilyn Monroe. Who wouldn’t, after all? She… Read more ›
I am thankful I don’t live in South Africa… where they have slugs bigger than my hand!
It seems to me that as soon as a flower proves that it has no problem surviving in a particular climate, someone slaps the label “wildflower”. To we snobbish gardeners, being a wildflower is like being the trailer park beauty… Read more ›
While some people may be tiptoeing through the tulips right now, here in Cleveland, you are more likely to find people tiptoeing through the dog crap. For the past five months we have been sending our canine companions out into… Read more ›
Being in the industry of internet marketing, I know that stuff like this happens. You are just innocently having some fun, writing a few words, a few people come to read it and *BAM* the next thing you know people… Read more ›
Light & Dark. Black & White. Yin & Yang. Ben & Jerry. Today, the world is in perfect balance with the sun spending an equal amount of time on each side of the world. Astrologically, today is the first day… Read more ›
My little seedlings have graduated from the nursery and have moved on to the paper cups. They are spreading their little true leafs and, so far, they have not caused me too much trouble. Like the good Catholic that I… Read more ›
