Bring ’em on!

by | Jun 27, 2008 | Gardening

Wisconsin has seen some record rainfalls in the past month. We are in the drainage basin of the Rock River, which eventually empties into the Mississippi River by Rock Island, Illinois. The huge rains contributed to flooding of the Rock and its tributary rivers and creeks, a lot of the flooding was extremely severe and damaging. Many of the farm fields around us still have acres of new ponds, three weeks after the worst of the rains. What the rains and floods also...

All We Are Saying is Give Peas a Chance

by | Jun 11, 2008 | Gardening

It’s been gardening on the run for me, this year. Too many garden shows on weekends. I’m late on getting almost everything into the ground. I’m not giving up, however. While you can’t say it’s never too late when it comes to gardening, you certainly can push things well beyond normal guidelines and often get away with it. When I was growing up in Warren, Michigan, an elderly widow named Rose Martin, who lived in Detroit, gardened a...

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