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Year: 2017

Creating A Cold-Tolerant Indoor Garden

Creating A Cold-Tolerant Indoor Garden

Today's weather forecast is 100% chance of rain. Sad emoji. At this point in winter, I rarely interact with our garden except to peer at it wistfully from indoors. But now we have an intermediate...

How to: Propagate a String of Hearts

How to: Propagate a String of Hearts

This project falls into the category of "let's just try it and see". Most of my propagation efforts involve a modicum of effort and some "why not", and in most cases, that's good enough. So I'm only...

Don’t Plant Black Locust Trees

Don’t Plant Black Locust Trees

This is a photo of a tree sucker sprouting from an existing root. The root is attached to a Black Locust tree stump in our neighbor's front yard. Over 100 feet away. On the other side of our house....

Dark-eyed Junco Babies Galore

Dark-eyed Junco Babies Galore

This morning I stepped out to turn on a sprinkler and noticed a Dark-eyed Junco casually hop through the water pouring down on its head duck and under a rotting railroad tie. It entered with a bug...

Gardening Comics

Gardening Comics

Another major hobby of mine is comics. For the last couple years, I've produced a single-panel strip called The Daily Drawing that's currently published twice weekly on GoComics.com. Once in a...

How To: Transplant Hostas in Midsummer

How To: Transplant Hostas in Midsummer

Note: check out my update below to see what the transplant and divisions look like after one year! We finally bit the bullet and decided have our lower deck replaced. The fat deposit check went out...

Some trees need pants…

Some trees need pants…

While cleaning up the neglected area next to the south easement, I came face to face with this. I had to take a photo and share it. Yes, I am 12. In case you are wondering, it's an English Holly...

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