Mar 21, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 21 I raked, weeded and trimmed down perennial beds today, and was always alert for a subject to write about. As I’ve said before, one of the gifts of daily blogging is the need to my antennae up at all times. In the garden and a blog, you...
Mar 20, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 20 At 5:32 PM, the spring equinox, I was outside finishing some garden cleanup. As I cut down some of last year’s perennial stalks and grasses, the first two of Barry Commoner’s Four Laws of Ecology ran through my head. “Everything is...
Mar 19, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 19 Today’s garden speaks to me about taking risks and taking charge. It was an usually warm, sunny day today… the type of weather that makes us think that spring has positively arrived. It is a tease, of course, but we gardeners took...
Mar 18, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 18 It was standing room only tonight at Highfield Hall, and I was pleased that so many people came out for my talk, Becoming A Better Gardener. One of my points was that we are sometimes well served to start small. There are some plants...
Mar 17, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 17 My mother has always said that peas should be planted on Saint Patrick’s Day. Usually I scoff at this notion, but today I actually considered it. It was one of those March days that makes you think spring is here…a total illusion, as...
Mar 15, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Pet Peeves, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 15 I got a comment from Christine over at Last Frontier Garden today. It seems that she searched for another blog about gardening and luck, but the only one she came up with was my post of the other day. This seems strange because we...
