• Winner of the Troy-Bilt Cordless Cultivator!

    by  • October 3, 2012

    Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway, both here on the blog and on Twitter. I wrote your names on slips of paper and put them in a basket, and my lovely assistant, (my 4 year old daughter, Elizabeth) chose a winner. And the winner is…. Cherina! Congrats, Cherina, and thanks again to...

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    Visit to Wolcott Mills Farm Learning Center

    by  • September 30, 2012

    On Friday, we visited the Wolcott Mills Farm Learning Center. We’ve gone the last couple of years in the fall, and it’s always a big hit. Wolcott Mills is a Michigan State Park, and it consists of Wolcott Mill (a historic mill), the farm learning center, which is a working farm, and equestrian and...

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    Win a Troy-Bilt Cordless Cultivator!

    by  • September 24, 2012

    I don’t do many giveaways on this blog. When I do, you can be sure that it’s actually something I’m excited about! That is definitely the case with this week’s giveaway: the Troy-Bilt TBC-57 Cordless/Battery Operated Cultivator. As someone with clay soil, lots of gardening space, and not a ton of time, I can...

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    Only a gardener could love them…

    by  • August 24, 2012

    We’ve been picking the large tomatoes as soon as they start showing a hint of color this year — the squirrels have been particularly evil, and if we don’t harvest tomatoes as soon as possible, the little bastards leave partially-eaten tomatoes all over the yard. When I went out this morning to water and...

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    In love with the August garden

    by  • August 5, 2012

    There are three high points in my gardening year: May, when everything is new and green and and an endless, uncharted sea of possibility lies before me; October, when the lawn and garden beds are a fiery blaze of orange, red, and yellow, courtesy of the mature trees that surround my garden; and August....

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    Today in the Garden: Little Fig

    by  • July 3, 2012

    My husband spotted this fig on our container-grown fig over the weekend. The fig, along with the rest of the plants in our garden, seemed to be sighing in relief thanks to a nice amount of rain from this morning’s storms. I know I’m relieved — the hose and I have been spending way...

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