my garden chores for april 2014
THOUGH ‘FRANTIC’ IS PROBABLY the more accurate adjective to describe me right now, adopting a “strategic” attitude would get me [read more…]
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my garden chores for march 2014
MARCH IS THE MONTH when I need two versions of the garden to-do list: one labeled, “If frozen…” and the [read more…]
my garden chores for february 2014
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL can be a real liability for the gardener in February, so shall we try together to stifle [read more…]
my garden chores for january 2014
I HEAR YOU! Like the kid in the back seat on the way to somewhere special, all you want to [read more…]
the december garden chores: 2013
I’M STUCK ON A DR. SEUSS RIFF: ‘How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon…My [read more…]
the november garden chores: 2013
I KNOW, IT CAN FEEL OVERWHELMING: How will we ever tuck it all in for the offseason, battening down the [read more…]
the october garden chores: 2013
I GOT FAKED OUT by early bouts of cold, but the cusp of fall is always that way: fickle, and [read more…]
the september garden chores: 2013
I DARE YOU: DO A SURVEY of your garden, right this minute. Go outside with a clipboard, and make a [read more…]
the august garden chores: 2013
REMEMBER THE LATE-1980s AD for a medical-alert device, where a woman says: “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”? I [read more…]
july garden chores: 2013
JULY RAISES THE QUESTION: How am I going to get things (including myself) through the usually hotter, often drier weeks [read more…]
the june garden chores: 2013
‘NOTHING LASTS.’ That Eastern-style philosophical message of impermanence is also what the June garden teaches. What was just all about [read more…]
the may garden chores: 2013
MAYDAY–OR SHOULD I SAY ‘MAYHEM,’ as in: Somebody rescue me by helping with the edging, weeding, mulching required to get [read more…]
the april garden chores: 2013
PANIC ATTACK MATERIAL. In a year when the snow didn’t melt till the final days of March, that’s how I’d [read more…]
the march garden chores: 2013
VOICES. VISITS. VARIABILITY. That’s how I can tell it’s March. A few feathered musicians are practicing in the pit the [read more…]
the february garden chores: 2013
I AM STIFLING URGES over here—and maybe that’s what February is about, especially in the Northern garden. Keep calm—but don’t [read more…]
