This is a volunteer pea. Honest to goodness! There are two of them in the old pea bed from last year (it’s a lettuce bed this year). I don’t think I have ever seen a volunteer pea in my life.… Read more ›
I don’t remember planting the tulips in the front of this picture. I think they were tulips that I planted when we first moved here. They bloomed the first year and after that they came up as a spindly leaf… Read more ›
Something really awful happened today. And I wanted to remind each and every one of you that you need to check yourself when you are in the garden, because we work with tools that can hurt, maim and even kill.… Read more ›
A few years ago, I use to work for a catalog company. And I learned a few interesting things about the direct marketing industry while I worked there. One of them was something called paper weight. Paper weight is literally… Read more ›
I suppose you can’t have a gardening blog and not talk about Earth Day on Earth Day. I am sort of an Earth acquaintance, instead of a friend. I am nice enough to the planet that it thinks I am… Read more ›
I got back last night from Boston. Yesterday, before my flight, I had a few hours to kill so I walked around Boston and looked for all that is green and growing. Boston, being one of the oldest cities in… Read more ›
I’m still here in Boston and tonight I got a special treat. I got to go to Fenway Park. Thanks Ross! (That’s Ross in the pic) He was the one with the tickets. He runs a Boston Red Sox forum… Read more ›
The magnolias are in bloom in Cleveland and I am not there to see them. I am just the jet setter this week and I am now in Boston for a business trip. But I did get a few hours… Read more ›
This is your Cleveland gardening correspondent reporting live from Las Vegas. I’m on a little weekend get away to Las Vegas, and enjoying the 80F temps here. This evening I went with my husband to eat at the Bellagio. The… Read more ›
This is a post that relates to the Cleveland Weeds project. In this post I am going to cover Quackgrass Spring Click on image or here to enlarge SummerComing Soon FallComing Soon Latin Name: Elytrigia repens Common Names: Quackgrass, Couchgrass,… Read more ›
