Let’s Get Gardening! Isn’t Michigan weather fun?! Last Friday, had you come by the store, you might have seen me out back, painting our new back door. I was lamenting the fact that I was wearing jeans – I would have been more comfortable in shorts! Saturday morning found me …
Let’s Get Gardening! Did somebody forget to tell Mother Nature that it’s October?! The temperatures seem more like August right now, and I hear that the predictions for this winter are for it to be milder and drier than normal. I do worry when our winters are “mild” that the …
Let’s Get Gardening! Do you remember the “Pushmi-Pullyu” creature from Doctor Doolittle? It was supposed to be a cross between a gazelle and a unicorn, and it had two heads (though in the movie version of my youth, it looked more like a two-headed llama). One of the creatures in …
Let’s Get Gardening! I can’t tell you how much I appreciated the rain we saw at the beginning of this week! We all could have done without the high winds and other extremes that came with the rain (or the power outages for many), but I, for one, was super …
Let’s Get Gardening! What the heck, Mother Nature?! It is not supposed to be this dry (or hot!) in May! My pond is at late-July/early August levels (that is to say, there’s not much water in it right now). I’ve been dragging hoses around to make sure that the trees …