AMEN. Let’s hear a chorus of it: AMEN! (Thanks, Andre Jordan, for another of your delightful doodles.) A lot of “inside contemplating” going on over here.
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FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST
smarter fall (and spring) cleanup, with doug tallamy
WHEN I TALKED to Doug Tallamy in February around the publication date of his latest book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” I didn’t want to go on and on about the advice in it regarding smart fall cleanup, which is one of the ways I know I’ve dramatically shifted the way I manage my own garden compared to 10 or even five years ago. But we were looking ahead to spring then, not fall.
I’m grateful that Doug returned to the podcast in autumn to do just that. Want to plan your most ecologically minded garden cleanup ever, and understand the consequences of each potential action you can take—including next spring?
The subtitle of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s recent book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” is “A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard.” Meaning: The choices we make all year-round, including the very important one of how we clean up, can help counteract an overdeveloped, fragmented landscape that puts the food web to the test. You and I are nature’s best hope, and I’m glad Doug joined me again to help us learn to support it.
(Stream it below, read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.)
Do you think that worm is counting its fingers and toes while contemplating life?
No because they don’t have fingers nor toes nor antennae for that matter.
Amen indeed! Here in the South it was so crazy with all the snow that even the people who were excited about it initially, later said enough! But Spring is finally starting to show.
Amen, amen, amen! Even though our winter has been much more bearable than several previous years (and better than yours, Margaret) we are ready for spring! Warmer weather coming in the next 24 hours.
it is still snowing here in south dakota
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Amen! Two days ago, for the first time this year the temperature was rising. The snow melted and my heart began to fill up with hope and faith that spring was coming. Then I woke up this morning and saw that it snowed more than ever before. Spring is coming, that’s for sure, but it is also sure that a last snowfall comes before it happens. However, what is nice to think of is that when spring arives and we hear the sound of birdsong and the smell of the plants growing, it’s a wonderful feeling:)
Poor Andre.
I keep trying to visualize my February Gold forcing the tips of their blossoms up through frozen dirt and 10 feet of piled snowbank to explode, on schedule in two weeks when somehow winter will end and spring will appear. Also thinking about lawnmower shopping. Meanwhile, your drawing expresses the thoughts of my Jack Russell nearly perfectly.
Linda
AMENAMENAMENAMEN! Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would agree wholeheartedly with a worm!
Amen! But Andre, earthworms have no legs, and I refuse to sympathize with a centipede.
Hi Margaret,
I am really loving this doodle! I am wondering if I would be allowed to share it on my facebook? I don’t want to just post it/copy it on there without asking for permission. Please let me know :)
Thank you for sharing your wealth of gardening knowledge and your beautiful website!
Welcome, Heather. Will you credit Andre Jordan and link back to our post on my site? Thank you.
Amen! We were having nice warm days with a touch of spring here in DK, but now the forecast says snow! Not to fond of the idea of snow again :-|
Hi, Dansken, and same here — a little of everything one kind of weather extreme after another.
It sounds like retirement to me.
It’s either feast or famine. My furnace died 2 weeks ago at 3 a.m. on a Sunday, when it was minus 15 degrees, with a worse wind chill, and today I am dragging out the hoses to keep the new evergreens alive.
Yes it is a skating rink here too in Farmington, CT. So its difficult to do anything in the garden. This winter already seems very long, although December was warmer than average. Today snow on top of the ice.