Category: Garden
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The Best Puppy Potty Training Advice
The Serenity PrayerGod, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuhr When you start searching the internet for the best puppy potty training advice, you probably are doing so after cleaning up a puddle or a pile, hopefully…
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How to Make Owning a Dog Easier
Dog is God spelled backwards. I always get a little burst of joy when I am reminded of that connection. Anyone who has experienced the unconditional love of a dog knows what I mean. That said, puppy or young dog is demon spelled backwards. OK, it isn’t, but it should be. Shelters are full of…
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My Heart Dog, Hobbes
HobbesFebruary 12, 2010 – April 22, 2024 We never intended to be a two dog family. Daisy, our Westie, kept our house in a state of perpetual chaos, but as I’ve written about my beloved friend and arch nemesis, she wasn’t affectionate. My eight year old daughter, who had done all of the work in…
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Gardening Mistakes To Avoid
According to Janet Kilburn Phillips, “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” At this rate of experimentation, I should be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Gardening. One of the main things that I have learned as a gardener is a very deep appreciation for farmers. Feeding all of us requires a combination of…
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Homegrown National Park, A Hopeful Perspective
Be the change that you want to see in the world.-Arleen Lorrance I saw that quote on a bumper sticker about 34 years ago, and it has stuck with me ever since. I like it because its message implies that we have more power than we think on this planet with 8 billion people. Clearly…
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The Best Way to Eat Strawberries
Did I make you look with that clickbaity title? My apologies, but I think that I have a hack that will make the click worth it. Obviously, the best way to eat strawberries is when they are ripe and freshly picked from the garden, so the title of this article really should have been “The…
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Rabbit Resistant Plants in My Garden
When my mother read Peter Rabbit to me as a child, I remember being terrified by Mr. McGregor. I can still remember the suspense of not knowing if Peter would evade Mr. McGregor’s menacing rake and escape from the garden. The thought of Mrs. McGregor putting little Peter, like his father, in a pie had…
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How to Pick an Avocado without Black Spots Inside
My blood work from my last doctor’s appointment showed that I had high triglycerides and higher than normal levels of the bad cholesterol, LDL, and my blood sugar levels put me in the pre-diabetic range. Not great, right? And since I still have a lot of gardening and crocheting that I want to do, I…
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A Flowering Shrub for Shade, the Tuff Stuff™ Red Mountain Hydrangea
Don’t be a quitter. I’m not sure who said that first, but Vince Lombardi’s version of “Winners never quit, and quitters never win” is baked into American culture. As far as aphorisms go, it sums up a lot about what’s needed to succeed in everyday life, but taken too literally, it eliminates the possibility of…
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Pretty Purple Flower Combination for Container Gardening
Even though I have been an amateur gardener for awhile, I still have a pretty bad case of imposter syndrome. As with any new hobby, there is so much to learn. The Latin names of plants, how to differentiate between beneficial and detrimental insects, how to identify plant diseases, how and when to properly apply…
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