Today, a Gardening Tip!
The brilliance of this is self-evident.
I have decided that in the interest of our collective mental health and sanity, we ought to ignore the Marmalade Mussolini on Saturdays when we can; he is usually too busy riding in his golf cart to inflict as much damage on the world as during the week.
Besides, life goes on. Plants are essential in many ways, aesthetic and otherwise, and in the interest of shared knowledge, I will confide a great discovery I made. If you have one or more large maple trees, it is not a good idea to A) mulch the yard under them and B) then leave the country for several weeks before the helicopter-like seed pods fall.
You will return, as I did, to a miniature maple forest. I will spare you the details of my circa 600 AD technological solution, except that it resulted in me having a very sore back.
I have decided that next week, I will not bring you the results of any experiments in chemistry. Happy Saturday!
Hold my trowel.
With all the hot days and timely rain, weeds--or in this case, maple seedlings--are having a bumper year. But so are the vegetables. We're already picking cucumbers, summer squash, zucchini, and green peppers from the small garden plot in the back yard, Swiss chard and onions arrived earlier, but the tomatoes seem to be a bit tardy. But when they show up, look out. Happy Saturday