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Report From PIA – February 18 There is one serious drawback to having a vegetable garden: It is so satisfying to go into the garden at 5:30 or 6 PM and pick dinner, that having to buy fresh lettuce and other produce in the winter absolutely sucks. So for the past month I’ve been making [...]
Report From PIA – February 17 I recently learned that one of my favorite gardening magazines is celebrating its 20th anniversary. I’m talking about GreenPrints, published by Pat and Becky Stone. This prompted a realization that this publication is a great deal like this blog. I am Homor Simpson, hitting his head and saying, D’oh!” [...]
Report From PIA – February 16 I listened to an NSA tele-seminar with marketing expert and coach Terry Brock today, where he talked about the many wonderful ways to digitally record presentations or put on a talk using technology such as Skype. In and out of the garden, it’s a whole new world. And this [...]
Report From PIA – February 15 Over the past few days I’ve been preparing my talk for the Sullivan Renaissance winter conference, and I can’t help remembering the last time I spoke in upstate New York. The audience was interested in gardening and the connection between growing plants and cultivating life, but what really captured [...]
Report From PIA – February 14 A couple of years ago I was talking with a man at the garden center who was trying to figure out if he should get a plant for his girlfriend for Valentine’s day. “Does she like plants?” I asked. “Not really,” he said, looking sheepish. “She says that she [...]
Report From PIA – February 13 What goes around, comes around, we’re fond of saying. Whether it’s literally true that what we give is returned to us or not, believing in the golden rule, to treat others as we want to be treated, is a wise ethical code. I wish more gardeners kept this in [...]
You’re Invited! What: A Garden Party Where: In Your Own Backyard When: Whenever it’s pleasant to be outside. Directions: Come into the garden… and bring your entire self. Bring your talents and your disabilities. Bring your love of adventure. Bring your preconceptions, and your readiness to let all such expectations go. Come to your garden with willingness; you, in [...]
Report From PIA – February 11 We gardeners are all about transformation. We believe we can take a patch of weed-filled earth (let’s face it – there is seldom bare soil) or a boring lawn, and turn it into a foliage and flower-filled delight. My husband and I, for example, turned the ordinary turf entry [...]
Report From PIA – February 10 As I plan, optimistically, for my 2010 gardens, I remind myself that none of it is a sure thing. The season might be wet and cold again, so the tomatoes will get late blight. Or it could be the hottest, driest summer on record. My seeds might not sprout, [...]
Report From PIA – February 9 A snowstorm is predicted for tomorrow, with a total accumulation of 5 to 9 inches. Some forecasters say more, of course, because when they hype total snow amounts that means that people will keep watching or listening to their station. That’s the All-Fear News as Paul Gorman used to [...]
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