Jul 19, 2011 | my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – July 19 Breakfast this morning was plain yogurt, walnuts, homemade granola and freshly picked blueberries and raspberries. Superfoods. Blueberries, oats, walnuts and yogurt are included in common lists of foods that good for...
Jul 12, 2011 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – July 12 This is a copy of the letter I sent to Oak Park, MI City Planner Kevin Rulkowski, in response to his comment in The Detroit News “I don’t know of any community where I have seen a full garden in the front...
Jul 10, 2011 | Inspiration, Life's Gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – July 10 As I was downloading photos of my garden this evening I checked in with my garden writing group on facebook. Derek Powazek wrote about Julie Bass’s struggle to grow vegetables in her front yard in Oak Park, Michigan....
Jun 16, 2011 | my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – June 16 Earlier this season I bought two packs of different varieties of sugar snap peas. I planted one package on one of our reinforcement wire walls and the other packet on the other. The seeds on the lower fencing sprang...
May 12, 2011 | my gardens, plants I love, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – May 12 Nor is it Mrs Obama’s vegetable patch at the White House. The good news is that growing your own food can be done on a scale and style that suites you. Whether you choose to plant in containers on the back deck or...
Mar 2, 2011 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – March 2 I went into the garden center today to start heirloom tomato seeds. This year we’ll pot up more of these than we’ve grown in the past; based on our sales last year, and the continued interest in vegetable gardening,...
