Yesterday, I decided that I needed to go plant shopping to lift my spirits a bit. It’s funny, but I am not a shopper in the way that women are stereotypically thought to be shoppers. I only own 3 pairs… Read more ›
Do you know what is worse than feeling like you are a vegetable growing failure? Discovering that while your concerted efforts to grow lettuce in the vegetable garden have failed miserably, your lawn sees fit to grow volunteer lettuce. I… Read more ›
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE I hate them. You hate them (or if you don’t, you should). Slugs. They are the bane of a gardener’s existence. The sweetest, would-not-hurt-a-fly gardener will gleefully crush the soft, slimy bodies of these ugly, plant… Read more ›
It’s a bad vegetable garden day. I have good days and bad days and today is a bad day. On the good days, I tell myself to be patient and that everything is growing fine. On bad days, I pretty… Read more ›
Why are there so many songs about rainbows And what’s on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions. – Kermit the Frog It must be a Jim Henson week. It rained again yesterday. The rain for the past… Read more ›
We had another terrific thunderstorm last night, complete with the brim and brew of rushing cloud and pounding rain. My husband laughed at me because I saw fit during this particular storm to attempt to photograph that instant the rain… Read more ›
I have long thought that Bee Balm looks like a flower version of a Fraggle. Who knows? Maybe the late, great Jim Henson got some of his inspiration from the garden. After all, it was him that coined the phrase… Read more ›
What’s wrong with a blog that is just about me, myself and my little garden. Gardening For Dummies wants more open discussion, “interactivity” between blogs… So fine. Today, let’s go for a little interactivity. I personally find it to be… Read more ›
Last night, I afforded my two younger children a rare treat. I let them stay up late enough to go firefly catching. It wasn’t just for their benefit. I have had a rough week and there are few things more… Read more ›
There have been a few people who have commented on the name of my blog “This Garden is Illegal”. So I thought I would go into why I chose that name. The short version: My garden really is illegal. The… Read more ›
