Alrighty now, I’ve enjoyed Winter but now it is time for it to go. Unfortunately, the calendar seems stuck on January and then there is February with all its snow and ice followed by half of March before Spring arrives. Between now and then, I need to figure out a way to get my hands in the dirt, to smell some fresh flowers and plants, to get off my winter duff and get some exercise so I am

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I’ve Enjoyed Winter, But Now It Is Time For It To Go

The door creaked as I slowly opened it, announcing to any who might be inside the shed that someone was entering. I could imagine garden fairies scurrying to their hiding places and actually saw a few meadow mice as they disappeared through a small hole in the wall

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Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Conclusion

The oven timer is sounding. The bread is browning and are chickens gettin’ crispy. All the forks are pointing to one kitchen conclusion: Featuring some fresh meat on Amuse-Bouche

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Cooking Off the Cuff with Sharon – New Guest Blogger

I was going through a big stack of clay pots one day, sorting them by size and wondering where they all came from. Since most of the plants I’ve purchased in the last umpteen years were generally grown in plastic pots, I found it hard to believe that I had so many of these clay pots, but I did.

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Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Fifth Secret

Having found three of the five secrets to achieving happiness in your garden, I was on “high alert” for signs of the fourth secret. As I walked around the garden each day, I found myself stopping to look under every rock for signs of a piece of paper, a box, something, anything that might contain the fourth secret. Whenever I picked up an old magazine or gardening book, I caught myself not

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Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Fourth Secret

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I couldn’t believe I had been so careless, so cavalier, about one of my old hoes! Normally, I don’t try to use the older hoes for any actual hoeing, especially those with their original wood handles, for fear that the handles will snap off. But for some reason, I felt almost compelled to try out this one particular hoe.

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Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Third Secret

One early spring day a few years ago, I was sitting in my favorite spot by the window lazily browsing through some very old issues of Horticulture magazine. I came to own these magazines when someone I once worked with paid one dollar for a big box of them at an auction and then gave me all the issues from 1959

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Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Second Secret

One fall day, when the sky was quite blue and half the leaves were still on the trees and half were on the ground, I went out to the garden with rake in hand. I wasn’t planning to do a lot of raking, but merely wanted an excuse to be out in the garden on a beautiful day. As I poked around at the leaves, raking up little piles here and there, my rake suddenly got caught on something

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Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The First Secret

Have you changed your behavior as a result of the “great recession?” According to a survey from the Department of Labor and a New York Times/CBS News poll , Americans are spending less time shopping and more time engaging in simple, low-cost activities with family and friends. These include “organizational, civic and religious” pursuits; home-based hobbies like gardening and cooking; family sports such as hiking; and cultural endeavors like going to museums and movies. For many people this may be an obvious result of having less money to spend.

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Has the Recession Made Your Life Simpler?

A big THANK YOU to all of our entrants in the elevator pitch contest and to Peter Bowerman and Linda Formichelli for getting us signed copies of their books (and a set of e-books in Peter’s case as well)! Your participation was very much appreciated. And even if you didn’t win, please get yourself a copy of all of the books included in this contest — they’re outstanding resources for freelancer writers, new and old.

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Elevator Speech Contest Winners and Entries

I did not read yesterday’s paper until after alert May Dreams Garden reader Robbie of Going Green Mama left a comment on my seed catalog personality test post  about a potential vegetable seed shortage that she read about in our local paper.  Everyone stay calm. I googled it and got some more information.  Susan Reimer, who writes for the Baltimore Sun, wrote about a possible vegetable seed

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Stay Calm, Do Not Panic, But…

What is the culture of quilts in today’s society? quilt guilds quilt shows quilt competitions quilt shops quilt magazines quilt fabrics, more and more fabrics quilt notions, special rulers workshops prizes women for the most part Walk into any quilt show, only one or two quilts shine out as true

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Creating your Email Marketing Plan requires just as much content and creativity as creating a great blog or website. Unfortunately, it’s the one thing that most people fail to implement or procrastinate on in their marketing strategy

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How to Use PLR in Your Email Marketing Plan

I love gardening books, all kinds of gardening books. I buy them, I ask for them for gifts, I read them, I sometimes review them. I’ve even downloaded a few to my iPhone for “just in case” reading if I get caught somewhere and want to read about gardening

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How To Find The Gardening Books at Your Local Bookstore

The famous college basketball coach, John Wooden, once wrote that he started out each season by showing the new players how to properly put on their shoes and socks so that they wouldn’t get blisters. He said blisters were a common problem that kept players from being able to play their best. At first players thought he was nuts to go over something as simple as putting on socks and shoes, but

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Reading John Wooden, Our Thoughts Turn To Gardening

It’s a magical Christmas when you catch the garden fairies in the midst of their Christmas preparations!  I don’t mind a bit that they borrowed one of my Christmas tree ornaments for their own use for the day.  It’s Christmas! They can borrow whatever they’d like to make their day a festive one. They can even borrow this Nativity set. It’s life size to them.  Made of pipe cleaners and felt,

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Christmas at May Dreams Gardens

I saw the first seed display of the season a week and a half ago at a big hardware store, the one that starts with “L”. It was sandwiched in between some sorry looking poinsettias and those cardboard boxes full of Christmas wrapping paper.

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There Will Still Be Time To Buy Seeds After All The Holiday Festivities

Menu for Hope 6 is beginning our second week with some very impressive numbers, we’ve now raised $28,530 (and counting) for the UN World Food Programme.   And, to launch into our second week in style, we’re bringing in some fantastic new items to our raffle.  Over in Europe, our regional host David Lebovitz brought in some impressive stuff, including a Krups professional deep-fryer (shipped to EU countries only) and an array of delectable chocolates.  Our wine host Alder Yarrow of Vinography added to his list a luxury getaway at Meadowood Resort in Napa to his already impressive line-up of bid items.  Over here on Chez Pim, I’ve got quite a few cool new raffle items to add as well.  I hope some of these new items will entice you to donate to Menu for Hope and make your bids – the more you give, the better your chances!  Ok, enough overture, let’s get on to the good stuff. UW44 Coffee with Ruth Reichl Are you a fan of Gourmet?  Or perhaps a fan of Ruth herself

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Menu for Hope 6 – $28,530 (and counting) plus new prizes

Show of hands – who got some snow yesterday? I hear that out on the East cost they didn’t get “some” snow, they got a bunch of snow.  And even saying “a bunch of snow” is probably an understatement as different garden bloggers are starting to shovel out and post pictures like the ones that Robin at Bumblebee posted.  They got a lot of snow. Over a foot of snow.  An impressive amount of snow.

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Winter Green