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Planting the seeds of a happy life
If you’ve followed this blog in the past year, you know that my gardening life (and my blog activity) has slowed considerably since all the changes in my life took me away from that piece of ground I cultivated and loved for eight years. Well, on October 10th, 2010 (10.10.10!) my sweet Santia and I…
Gardening through winter – what worked well
One of the reasons for moving back to northern California was to garden through the winter, and it hasn’t disappointed. This is the first winter with our new, large flowerbed in the front and our raised veggie beds, and we took advantage of those spaces to grow more winter flowers and a few vegetables. We…
Get outside! Even a little nature helps you stay happy
Do you ever go the entire workday without getting outside or seeing any plants, trees, flowers, and birds? A new study says that just getting outside for a few minutes among some elements of nature will improve your mental well-being and can last for hours. Gardens make you happy! I saw this article about the…
The batter swings and the summer flies…
The title of this post is from a recent song by Five for Fighting (The Riddle). Anyway, those words keep running through my mind this week, as we’ve had two storms sweep in and blow summer far away. The first was last Friday, which brought snow to the mountains. It’s pretty to see Mt. Timpanogos…
Garden mini-expo was too mini and not enough expo
I don’t think I’ll go to another Thanksgiving Point garden mini-expo. It was much too basic. If you’re a guy like me who reads garden books and magazines and has tried a lot of things in the garden, there just wasn’t much to learn. They had people teaching who were trying to earn their master…
One million new trees in ten years!
The Deseret Morning News published an editorial on Sept. 15 calling on Salt Lakers to participate in planting one million trees by 2017. The county and a number of cities have endorsed the effort. I hope there is some plan in place. They need something like the Sacramento Tree Foundation, which did great work when…