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Report From PIA – February 20
When I was preparing to leave after my talks at Sullivan Renaissance today, a woman stopped me in the atrium. “Can I ask you a question?” she said. “What do you think of horse manure?”
I told her that I thought that any manure was great for the garden, and that [...]
Report From PIA – December 10
Some days are like a meadow: a little of this, a sprinkling of that, some flowers, a few grasses, and a bunch of weeds. This is what today was like for me, and I won’t bore you with the details. I did stop and notice, however, that if I looked [...]
Report From PIA – November 3
It was beautiful today, so after breakfast I headed out to the garden. As I pulled out the frost-killed plants, I noticed some bright green foliage among them. Weeds.
Next I went into the vegetable garden, and once again, the weeds greeted me. In areas I have yet to clear they [...]
Report From PIA – October 22
Sometimes we have to put time and effort into something knowing, or hoping at the very least, that it will pay off in the future. Parents will take this approach if they want their kids to be reasonable human beings, and gardeners come to embrace this methodology as well.
I went [...]
Report From PIA – September 1
Last spring I was the keynote speaker at a Master Gardener conference in Western Massachusetts. The topic was Myths, Lies, and All The Latest Dirt. One of the illusions I addressed was that there is an easy way to control weeds. People want to believe that if they just use [...]
I think that this is a product that shouldn’t be sold. It appeals to people because it seems to solve the weed problem permanently, and for a year or two it works well as long as you don’t mind looking at the acres of bare mulch – hardly an improvement over weeds – that it [...]