I hope you will forgive me for the lack of newsletters the last couple of months. My mother, who has been my guiding light all my life, was very ill, and caring for her was my top priority, which meant many other things went by the wayside. Unfortunately, my mother passed away on Monday, January 12th. To say my heart …
My apologies for the delay in getting this month’s newsletter to you – I’ve been juggling a few too many balls the last few weeks, and some of them have refused to stay in the air! Have you seen or heard any of the predictions for the winter months this year? If not, you’ve missed out on hearing that we …
I hope your gardening season has been a successful one. I have to say that my vegetable garden outdid itself this year, due in part to all the sunshine and heat. I have never had so many peppers, eggplants, and zucchini before, and my tomatoes, green beans, and carrots were pretty fierce producers, too. My flower beds have suffered a …
It seems that Mother Nature lost interest in summer about two-thirds of the way through the month of August this year. Maybe she just ran out of steam, which I could understand, considering how amazingly hot and humid it had been for so long. The cool-down has me a little conflicted though, because while I was loving not having my …
I’m having a hard time believing that July is over, but I’m kind of glad that it is, since we seem to have left those miserable temperatures and humidity behind with it. With the coming of August comes the real work of harvesting all of the lovely things we have been nurturing in our gardens, and I don’t know about …
If you were hoping that our lovely little heat wave was a thing of the past, I hate to break it to you, but the forecast for the rest of the summer is much of the same – higher than normal temperatures and rainfall. That should make keeping up with outdoor chores a real chore. Maybe I should take up …
Ok – what the ever-loving heck is with our weather?! Never mind – it’s Michigan. I know that Michigan weather is never predictable, so I don’t know why I let it get to me when it does exactly what it always does at this time of year – mess with me. It’s enough to drive a gardener crazy, if you …
I apologize for the tardiness of this month’s newsletter. We have been so incredibly busy receiving deliveries lately that I haven’t had the brain cells to even think about trying to make any sense out of what we need to be doing in our gardens now. The good news is that we have gotten in some really great stuff that …