I just made that number up, but not the helpful garden tip!Buy lots of Bounce Dryer Sheets. The Garden Professors shared this nugget: Entomologist Dr. Raymond Cloyd of Kansas State University and his group were intrigued by Master Gardener anecdotes of dryer sheets repelling mosquitoes, though no research had been done. Could your common Bounce […]
Armchair Gardening
Not The Emily Dickinson You Knew (but she DID garden)
“Plants grew on her family property; she ordered plants from catalogs; she collected plants for her herbarium; she wrote hundreds of poems about plants, flowers, and nature; and also wrote about plants and gardening in her correspondence. She was inspired by plants and was enamored by their attributes.”– Recreating Emily Dickinsons Gardens As I said, […]
Ken Druse and Garden Culture Direction
Taking Time To Listen I’ve taken more time to read books and listen to some videos and podcasts by fellow garden bloggers/writers. Ken Druse had an interesting podcast recently. In his conversation with Chris Beytes there were some opinions that instigated some of my own. In this recent recording of ‘Real Dirt‘, garden center trends […]
Winter Wandering – Or Now Is Not The Time To Get Dirty
Or is it? I just can’t make myself get into the garden at this time, and Ohio’s prematurely freezing weather (it is more like January weather when the mercury flirts with temperatures in the single digits) makes staying indoors with a hot cup of something and warm new booties all that I want to do. […]
Autumn Morning Musings
Finally, the rain came, not to slake the thirst of the earth, but just to moisten the tongue. The month began with some of the mists and morning fog that often shrouds the morning of an autumn day in Ohio; the leaves dropped in mostly brown tones, and the chrysanthemums and asters came on smaller […]
October Photos
Not much to view in the garden in terms of colorful blooms, but I took a ramble and captured some of the garden …. which I hope to write about soon. It is simply a case of being a little down and uninspired with the drought we are experiencing right now. I am not alone […]
