I finally posted my first newsletter/essay/post in the Substack garden profile. I am so new to working on that platform that I don’t even know what to call the writings there! Nevertheless, I plunged in. Here, is the the introduction to my “Peace in the Garden writing: Southern Spring The gentility of vernal Georgia I […]
Everyday Happenings
While I’m Updating, Read This
All I’m doing… for hours upon hours, is updating the garden journal and website, Ilona’s Garden. The web changes and ten years of general neglect might as well have been a millenium in online time. Most people don’t even remember “technorati tags”. But they contribute a lot of dead links! And all the former garden […]
HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side
I’m not ready to write this post, but I must start somewhere. It is part explanation, part apology, part a ploy for commiseration. This is not a farewell post. No, I just signed up for two more expensive years of hosting. Yes, that was a bit of a grouse, but when I tell you about […]
Big Things I’m Doing Differently in 2018
Remember “The Beverly Hillbillies”? How about “The Brady Bunch”, or “Green Acres”, for that matter? They are all TV shows that started out with a theme song that told their stories. For me, it could have been “There once was a woman who homeschooled, With her ten kids, she moved out to the country and […]
Observations on an Ohio Spring
We haven’t entered springtime officially, but tell the weather that! This has been a most mild winter, and Ohio experienced all time high temperature records for the month of February in 2017. It accelerated a climate phenomenon which, as a gardener, I look for each year. Most everyone know of the “Indian Summer” and “January […]
Snippets of Gardening, February’s Mercies
One of the mercies found within an Ohio winter are those small windows of dry enough conditions and relatively pleasant weather. They are almost always very short, so the opportunities need to grasped. We have a short window at this moment and I have used it to carry on the weeding and garden preparation that […]
