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!
I remember it like it was yesterday. Wait a minute. I don’t remember yesterday. I remember the day in 1962 when I was trying to reach inside a gumball machine …
That garden, you see, really IS (as I have previously reported/claimed) carved out of a small corner of old-growth forest. I had to take down about six trees to clear …
Shortly after we decided to stop being city mice and moved to our rural location, we quickly attempted to learn about mysteries like “septic tanks,” “deep and shallow wells,” and …
Which shall it be? The frozen lettuce just happened, while the too-many tomatoes is yet to occur (but is as sure a certainty as President Clinton is to ... well, …
I was still a city kid when the first Hornet from Hell tried to kill me—but the crime was not attempted in the city, a concrete row-house paradise pretty much …
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 …
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 …
