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!
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
