Earthly Garden

Just when I was getting back into the groove, an ice storm moved through. We had 50+ mile an hour winds and it knocked my DSL out for a bit. As I write this it is snowing! I love snow-it’s just not winter (or Christmas) without it! The garden looks so different with a blanket of snow over it. Before this blast of winter moved it the weather was so unseasonably warm that my petunias were still blooming. Alas, the snow did them in. It was a rather pretty and striking site to see the blooms sparkling with a dusting of snow though. Too bad I didn’t have my camera with me!

Now that the snowflakes are flying it’s time to settle into a comfortable chair and start reading all those pretty seed catalogs and gardening books. If you’re like me you’ve got quite a stack! For the next few posts the Garden will be reviewing some of the books and catalogs in my pile! If you have a favorite gardening book or catalog, drop me an email or leave a comment and let me know-if I can get my hands on it I’ll review it here.

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Sad news folks. House and Garden magazine will cease publication after this month’s issue. The magazine’s website will also be shut down. The magazine started back in 1901-that’s 106 years ago-shut down in 1991 and was brought back to life in 1996.
It joins Jane magazine in the dustbin.

I enjoyed looking through the magazine’s glossy photo layouts and gardening section, but it leaned toward portraying home décor and gardening ideas for the ridiculously rich. Few of us in the working class or middle class could ever hope to afford anything shown in the magazines pages.

Editor Dominique Browning wrote two very interesting and entertaining gardening books, “Around the House and In The Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing and Home Improvement” and “Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener”. If you haven’t read them, I highly recommend you do!

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Mornin’ gardeners!

Our spring garden here is coming along….at a crawl! The seedlings inside are not growing very fast; I think the light from my new growing stand is too weak for them. We’ve also had two unusual freezes during the last week. I usually have a few tomato plants out by now, although covered at night. No brag, just fact! LOL

I realize that a lot of my readers live in places where you can’t garden for a while. I feel for ya’, so dug up this link to a lot of great info. you can be reading in the meantime. On the great *You Grow Girl* website, a complete Beginner’s Guide to Starting Vegetables from Seed chart, more info. than you can shake a stick at, etc. etc. The site is maintained by Gayla Trail, author of the You Grow Girl book (also recommended!).

In the meanwhile, have happy dreams of spring!

dig it!

bobbi c.

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