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What a Plant Knows

Get to Know the World of Plants Back when I was a teenager, summer reading was all about pulp fiction and romantic novels, except for the summer when I read everything Arthur C. Clarke ever published.  Now that I use podcasts for pulp novels and nonfiction, I can spend summer on eccentric or unusual new […]

Walk on the Wild Side

We Can Forage! by Sandy Swegel Sometime every year mid-summer, when the weather is hot and the weeds so darn big, I start to think gardening is just dumb. Nature creates beautiful gardens all on her own without requiring WORK from me.  Why do I garden? Why does anyone garden?  Can’t we just go back to hunting […]

Mid-Season Garden Report Card

Mid-Season Garden Report Card How is your garden faring? by Sandy Swegel  Here’s the report card for my garden. June had record high temperatures and little rainfall.  Lots of extra watering helped, but plants don’t grow as well without natural rainfall. Lettuces and Spinach. The heat made them bolt early and they are all bitter or […]