“The Canes Go Marching Two by Two…”
They all go marching down—through the beds, where they evict—the tomatoes, boom boom boom. The canes go marching three by three, the little one stops to take a, eh—rest—and they …
About Mike McGrath
Pennsylvania’s Mike McGrath has been a valuable mainstay of the magazine for decades, contributing his unique perspectives and humor about gardening and life. Mike’s work has appeared in over 100 GreenPrints issues!
Articles by Mike McGrath
An Orchid to Die For
We now travel back in time to (Dare I say it?) 1985 or 1986. I put those AirTag things on my wallet and keys so I’d have half-a-prayer of finding …
I know, but at least it’s not an old toilet out there by the road
Way back when, I decided to stop buying cheap (not ‘inexpensive’; I mean cheap!) gas grills that lasted about as long as a Bic lighter (I would have said Bic …
Hosta la Vista!
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Listen Now:
To quote Wikipedia (which, yes, I send a donation to every year because one) I use it a lot in my work and two) I grew …
My Horizontal Rhododendron
Two Springs ago (not counting the most recent one, which was lovely in early January but ran away on the [theoretical] “first day of Spring” and has not been seen …
I Love Loofas!
Warning: This story, like 90 percent of gardening, is a cliffhanger. Most of you will be familiar with that term, but in the interest of stalling for time, I will …
“Where Have All the Fireflies Gone?”
Those of us who have achieved a certain age remember Summer and Fall in ways that no longer exist:
Collecting empty soda (pop) bottles to take back to the store for …
My Peppered Past
The grand (or not so grand; your choice) illusion of GreenPrints is that we grizzled veterans are asked to write a seasonally appropriate story every quarter, months before that season …
Of Bulbs Major, Minor & Light
I always tell people that if they want to really show off their garden to plan to do so in the month of June (that’s still Spring, isn’t it?). Certainly …
“The Waiting is the Hardest Part”
As I have previously recounted in these pulse-pounding pages, the amazingly talented Hall of Fame ballplayer Rogers Hornsby (third-best batting average in all of baseball history!) was once asked by …
