Wintertime Tasks For The Gardener
First, create an 8-inch layer of a good mixture of small-sized organic materials, such as grass clippings, leaves, old mulch or straw, dead plants, spent blooms, twigs, sawdust, and fruit and vegetable scraps. Next, add a 1-inch layer of soil or ... [... more]
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Where, Oh Where Has Our Winter Gone?
I went away for a week and while I was gone, winter sneaked out. I got back and found that he had taken all ten inches of the snow we had left with him. There sat my garden wrapped only in its mulch. Now we have had a week of dry, warm, windy ... [... more]
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Yard Art That Works
Gerry went on, gesturing to a "cat" garden full of catnip and catmint and pussytoes and pussy willow and other cat plants. "Are there too many cats in that garden?" she asked me. I saw a stone sleeping cat lying in the mulch, ... [... more]
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Gardening From My Keyboard
What happened was that our chickens - very enthusiastic dancers when they see soft dirt or mulch - had been dancing too close to my Etera plants and thus exposed the rims of the peat pots. This is a serious no-no. Unless the rim is completely ... [... more]
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Out Of The Cave And Into The Sunshine!
I do tend to leave the perennials standing through winter in all of their shriveled finery. In our climate those withered leaves act as a mulch to protect tender plants - and so to me this is the way it should be. In autumn I am still too busy ... [... more]
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The Mulching of America: A Novel
 Satriristic Crews Although this book was not as strange, or as blatently shocking and funny as Crews' other masterpieces, this book is truly one of his greatest, and one of the greatest social satires to date. In the spirit of "Death of a Salesman& ... [... more]
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Water Conservation
Take mulch for instance. Any bare dirt in your garden can be covered with a 2-inch layer of mulch to prevent evaporation. This mulch can take the form of soil conditioner, organic compost, shredded gorilla hair and more. The key is being generous ... [... more]
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Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception
Keep it up Colfer This is a good book in a great series that makes a fun and quick read. The villain from The Arctic Incident returns to plague all the characters we love, including young Artemis Fowl, manservant Butler, the elf Captain Holly Short and ... [... more]
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The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception, ...
Unfortunately for debunkers like the Amazing Randi, the distinction between science and pseudoscience can get a bit fuzzy. Biophysicist Walter Gratzer pokes gently through the mulch of dead ideas in The Undergrowth of Science, a smart, witty collection ... [... more]
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A Groom with a View: A Jane Jeffry Mystery
The worst book I've read in my life. I have read many bad books, but this is the first of Jane Jeffry's that's been put into my hands. And it is a great example of writing so poor and predictable that each paragraph is a cringer. The main character is an ... [... more]
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Made for the Shade
This book will collect dust on my book shelf It is comprehensive in it's text but there were not enough pictures to suit my taste. The text was not arranged in a fashion that makes it an easier reference. It would be helpful if there where cross ... [... more]
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Plant This!: Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens
Ketzel Levine is known nation-wide as the Doyenne of Dirt, thanks to her regular gardening chats with the horticulturally challenged Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition. Plant This! is a collection of Levine's 100 best recommendations, drawn from her ... [... more]
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