There Goes the Exercise
December 19th, 2017
Gardening is good for burning off calories, but I’ve found I have to lug compost for three solid hours to counteract the effect of a half of a piece of cherry pie.
Gardening is good for burning off calories, but I’ve found I have to lug compost for three solid hours to counteract the effect of a half of a piece of cherry pie.
I’m not getting tired of my plants or gardening. I’m just getting tired.
Bioengineers have come up with plants that kill bugs and glow in the dark. How about a plant that weeds its own space? Or one with Venus flytrap genes so its mouth could grab cabbageworms?
I was dozing off with some seed catalogs one evening, when all of a sudden…
Gardeners and non-gardeners don’t usually see things eye-to-eye. Is a tree a beautiful living thing or a messy headache? Is a bee beneficial or threatening? Is weeding relaxing or maddening?
I can now verify first-hand that pruners don’t compost very well. But what, you may ask, was I doing with pruners in my compost pile?
Animals might foil our vegetable gardens sometimes, but in the long run, we can outsmart them. Can’t we?
How do you know if you’re a crazed gardener? Lower Swatara Twp. uber-gardener Joe Mateer came up with this qualifying exam…
Few events in the botanical world create as much stink (in more ways than one) than when a Titan arum opens. Also known as the corpse flower for its rotting-flesh-like scent, this plant created much ado when Pittsburgh’s Phipps Conservatory got one to bloom.
What would gardeners want from Santa? How about a groundhog-eating rabbit, no-prune plants with an off button or maybe even some halfways decent weather for a change?