In the midst of the 2020 pandemic we now receive unsolicited nondescript packages of seeds showing up in the mailboxes of homes across the United States. It only makes sense in the year of “sow…Continue Reading
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April Snow…A Common Michigan Occurrence
It seems to happen every spring in West Michigan. An early spring warm up gets the earth growing and hopes high and then reality sets in. We live in Michigan. Reality in the form of…Continue Reading
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Spring Break
Every April there comes a day when you can tell the earth wakes up from its winter slumber. Today, April 2, 2020 was that day. Call it “Spring Break” Soil temperatures at the 2 inch…Continue Reading
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“V” Gardens
It was a man named Charles Lathrop Pack, head of the National War Garden Commission who coined the phrase “Victory Garden” during World War I. Credit him because it was much more positive than “War…Continue Reading
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“Trend” to your garden
“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.” -Voltaire So Voltaire, French enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his witty works of satire In Candide, intended for…Continue Reading