Spring Check List

It doesn’t feel like Spring here.  Cold rain and wind, freezing nights.  But the daffodils are blooming and this week the willows leafed out and the plums blossomed.  They apparently don’t pay attention to the rain and cold, they just do what they should do, no matter what. So even though I don’t feel like…

Gardening Tips

It’s raining.  I’m at the library getting children’s books to occupy a young granddaughter.  All innocent enough.  Suddenly I feel a powerful force drawing me to a book display of gardening books.  Never mind that I don’t have a garden this Spring.  Never mind that I don’t have a yard yet.  I leave with an…

Gardening Lesson

Perhaps next year I will try again to be a vegetable gardener.  We have moved to a place with more fertile soil, less summer humidity, and just maybe fewer biting bugs.  We will see.