Dear reader, thanks for...

Lucy and Frank, Nov 2010

Dear reader,

The turkey is defrosting, Thanksgiving has almost reached Kansas.

I’m thankful for you.

This year through reading my blog you have given me:

insight into what holds me back, as I think about how to help you and encourage you

enthusiasm to take on new gardening projects so that I can share them [...]

A Gift from the Rabbits

Little Yuba by AlishaV

No bunnies were harmed during the making of this story.

This week the bunnies brought me a “gift”.

My two kitties were at their annual physicals, cowering down on the table, as is their wont, when all of a sudden, “A flea!” exclaimed the vet. “I really didn’t expect that,” she proclaimed, as [...]

The Wonder Potato

Yukon Gold Potatoes by Summer Tomato

With St Patrick’s Day almost here it seems appropriate to pay tribute to the wonder potato, or should I say the wondrous potato.

Later this week I’m going to post an article on everything you need to grow potatoes, but today I just want us to think about the amazing [...]

I’m a gardener because…

I’m a gardener because my mom’s father cared for primroses and potatoes and every spring he made a pilgrimage to buy baby leeks from his cousin, who ran a garden supply company, which was really hard for Grandpa to reach without his own car.

Grandpa was one of the garden lovers in my [...]

10 Ways to Feel Better in Winter

I Want You by Jentymom

Word has it that some people out there in Real World Land are suffering from the winter cranky pants. At least that’s what the Grass Stain Guru has to say today.

Tigger might love to surf (that’s what the t-shirt says), but Mother Nature is hardly likely to oblige us by [...]