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Joy of Gardening

A Senior’s Ultimate Guide to Gardening from a Chair

Fresh air, nature, flowers, veggies and the satisfaction of nurturing living, growing plants. What’s not to love about gardening? However, getting down on your hands and knees to tend to your blooms can become more challenging with age. If the thought of sitting down on the ground and getting back up is stopping you from […]

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Gardening with Kids

Start Gardening with Kids Now to Inspire Green Thumbs Early

Gardening with kids is stressful, but when I was a child, my mom used to trust me with all sorts of garden chores. I would take care of her tomatoes, her roses, and her zucchinis. I would weed and water and pick the ripe fruits and vegetables. When she wasn’t looking, I’d try to hand-pollinate […]

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Gardening Humor

A Foul but Funny Gardening Tale

There are a lot of funny gardening stories I can relate to. Kids picked the tomatoes too early? Been there. Dog tore up 200 freshly planted bulbs? Totally! There was this one time I grew an entire patch of underripe watermelons. By the time the cold was settling in, I had to pick them, and […]

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Gardening Life

The Pros and Cons of Growing Poblano Peppers: A Spicy Love Story in the Garden

As an avid food gardener, I have a lot of favorites, but when it comes to peppers, the Poblano pepper holds a special place in my garden and my heart. It’s the James Bond of the pepper world—smooth, sophisticated, and just spicy enough to keep things interesting. If you love homegrown flavor with a touch […]

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Joy of Gardening

Grow Young In Your Garden

As someone creeping up on 80 and still feeling sprightly, I often reflect on how I’ve kept my body moving, my mind sharp, and my spirit young. Turns out, the secret isn’t bottled in a supplement or buried in a self-help book. It’s planted right outside in the garden. My mother was a nurse and […]

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Animals in the Garden

Birds in the Garden

While I spend a lot of time wallowing over winged Japanese beetles that devour my dahlias each Summer, they’re not the only aggressive flying pest that woes me. That’s right, I’m talking about birds in the garden. Four years ago, I planted four blueberry bushes, imagining a bounty of blueberries every Summer. I’d be serving […]

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Gardening Humor

This Family Home Garden Surprised Almost Everyone

I consider myself lucky in a lot of ways. One of the biggest ones, for me, is knowing that my daughter is growing up with a family home garden. Since before she could walk, we’ve spent time in the garden together. She knows about planting seeds, waiting for those seeds to germinate, pulling weeds, and […]

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Gardening Humor

My Garden Story of Revenge

Revenge or fair play? That’s what my garden story is about today. Are you ready to be the judge in a case of a garden crime? We all have that favorite plant. You know the one that you’ve tried to grow for years and is finally thriving? That’s the plant I’m talking about here. It […]

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Gardening Mishaps

Cross-Pollination Fails in the Garden

I’ve been growing a garden for years, and have always heard the tales of other gardeners’ cross-pollination woes, but it’s never happened to me. I was always so careful to keep my plants separate, and to only grow heirloom varieties. But then there was this year, where something went terribly wrong. I noticed it first […]

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Gardening Humor

What’s It Like to Be Mike McGrath?

You can learn a lot about a person just by reading what they write. Some folks come off kind, others terse, some brilliant, and some—well, a bit outrageous. But Mike McGrath? He’s a category all his own. Outrageously kind, comically smart, enthusiastically chaotic, and definitely not stoopid. No sir, not our Mike. Reading Mike’s work […]

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