Let’s Get Gardening! I haven’t heard anybody complaining about the weather we’ve been having lately – ok, yesterday wasn’t so great, but we’ll be back in the 70’s again at the end of this week! My only complaint is that I seem to have done something to my knee, which …
Let’s Get Gardening! Well, apparently Mother Nature took the calendar seriously this year – the calendar said it was fall, so we got fall! We went from a high of 81° on the last day of Summer to a high of 58° the very next day (at least at …
Let’s Get Gardening! Mother Nature sure has a sense of humor. Immediately after I said, in last month’s newsletter, that the main thing we all needed to be doing for our gardens was watering, she started sending us lots of rain! I think I only watered my vegetable garden once …
Let’s Get Gardening! Last month was way below average in rainfall, which made keeping things watered really difficult. Typically, the Ann Arbor area gets a little more than 3.5 inches of rain in July. This year, Ann Arbor got about 1.5 inches. That wouldn’t be too terrible, except that …
Let’s Get Gardening! First – I have to apologize for being late in getting this newsletter out to you this month. Last week was a little crazy, with the planning and then celebrating of the 10th Anniversary of my owning The Garden Mill, and then the holiday weekend got in …