It’s good to see there’s someone else way behind on their to-do list this spring. Mother Nature just can’t seem to catch up after her struggle to end Old Man Winter’s long soliloquy. Case in point is Kingwood Center’s Garden Discovery Day this Saturday. Since its inception sixteen years ago, it was always the […]
John Makley, Columnist
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Hold the garlic, please
Nothing says spring like that smell of freshly mowed grass, and yesterday I caught my first whiff of it. It is such a great smell you would think someone would try to bottle it. As it turns out, someone actually has. Demeter Fragrance Library offers it along with some other unique scents like “Dirt” and […]
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The Dirt on Dirt
Years ago, having graduated from The Ohio State University (long before the “the” was changed to “THE”) my next door neighbor offered me a job. He was a landscaper, and I hold him personally responsible for my career path. One of the first lessons he taught me was that plants do not grow in dirt. […]
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Notes from a Dirty Old Gardener
As an introduction to this new column, I just want to say “old” is a relative term, and there are plenty of older gardeners and younger gardeners. Expert is another relative term. While some people may consider me one, there are many who know much more than I. Fortunately, gardeners are a sharing lot, and […]