Gardening
Reusing Yard Waste is Worth the Effort
By most accounts, the next few weeks mark the end of summer, and autumn is just around the corner. When it comes to the home and family, school will be starting and the focus of life will slowly shift indoors, away from the yard and garden. At this point, it’s clear to many that the … Continue reading
Finding Cinderella in a Bleeding Heart
My first clear memory of my grandparents dates back to the age of 7. I can still hear my mother delivering the news that we would be moving to a new town. I took this in stride but there were two things I wanted to know— would we be closer to my favorite vacation spot (yes) … Continue reading
The Lazy Person’s Potato Garden
Growing potatoes always sounded hard. Dig a deep bed, “fluff up” the soil (especially painful with clay), then go back with the shovel for harvest. I am a lazy gardener. I started my gardening career at roughly the same time as my corporate career, so if it wasn’t easy, it wasn’t going to happen. This … Continue reading
Seed Starting is Easy! (Weeding is Hard)
I had plans to blog about starting seeds a couple weeks ago when I began the task . But it seemed so ordinary that I simply started the seeds and forgot the blog. I didn’t give it another thought until last night, when my daughter was studying at our house with a classmate. Her friend’s … Continue reading
Old Cardboard Finds a Tentative New Life (or the Mulch Dilemma)
I have been feeling guilty lately about hijacking a blog focused on all things “green” to talk about my kitchen. But interestingly, the kitchen remodeling has led me into some new research on garden mulch that I’d like to pass along. In my never-ending quest to reduce the size of my lawn (aka weeds), I … Continue reading
The Green Lawncare Movement: A Chemical Reaction (Film)
Last week I attended a screening of a documentary called A Chemical Reaction, co-sponsored by the Whitefish Bay (WI) Public Library and Healthy Communities Project. I had my doubts about how interesting a 1½ hour film on lawn chemicals would be, but the film focused heavily on the political process and less on the chemistry, … Continue reading
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