About Pat Stone

Pat Stone

Pat is Founding Editor of GreenPrints, having established GreenPrints in 1990 as a unique gardening quarterly print magazine that is filled with entertaining, funny, and heartwarming stories about gardening and life. Pat’s vision continues to guide the editorial mission of GreenPrints, and he ensures that every published story is worth a read by subscribers.

Articles by Pat Stone

A Spring Gardening Poem

A Spring Gardening Poem

There are many things I love about Spring. The smell in the air as the earth unthaws and the soil emerges again. The sound of birds returning home. The sight of forests of  …
Growing Points

Growing Points

Shep Ogden, the fellow who started The Cook’s Garden seed company, happened to drop by last Summer, the day after the neighbor’s cows broke through the fence and chomped all  …
Even Adam

Even Adam

Countess Elizabeth von Armin wrote, “If Eve had had a spade in paradise and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that said business of  …
Requiem for a Rototiller

Requiem for a Rototiller

Oh, she’s dead. She is dead. I mean, she’s had her cantankerous moments before. Those times when she wouldn’t start no matter what. The days when she sputtered around all  …
Peas Don’t Like Me

Peas Don’t Like Me

Peas don't like me. I mean it. It's not my fault. I like them. There's nothing more symbolic of early-summer gar­dening success than grazing along a row of twining pea  …
Weather Gossip

Weather Gossip

What is the number one conversation topic of all gardeners? You know it: weather. We all know what Mark twain said: “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything  …
Transplanting: The Tender Act

Transplanting: The Tender Act

Trowel out a hole … grab a root ball … set the plant in … tamp the dirt back in … water it all in … One. It’s a wet,  …
Gardeners Aren’t Crazy

Gardeners Aren’t Crazy

It happens every year. Every Spring. I forget all my failures. I forget the tomato seedlings that cooked in the cold frame last May. I forget the waves of weeds  …