
Will Spring Ever Come?? I think this was on classic rocker, Rod Stewart’s mind when he wrote the deeply moving lyrics, And don’t it seem like a long time Seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time And don’t …
Read More »Will Spring Ever Come?? I think this was on classic rocker, Rod Stewart’s mind when he wrote the deeply moving lyrics, And don’t it seem like a long time Seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time And don’t …
Read More »Before you get panicky and anxious, this is not a post about the election, politics or a state of the Union in any shape or form. No, this is more of a look back at what I won’t miss …
Read More »As we come to the close of another gardening season I try to take time to recall what really went well and what was a little disappointing. Luckily with age and years in the garden comes clarity and a realistic …
Read More »Now that the days and nights are getting cooler, it’s time to start closing up the garden. But, since we are blessed to be gardening in Cincinnati, there is a good chance we could see temperatures reach 80 a few …
Read More »Perhaps I should not admit this to you, our visitors, but I feel I need to shine a light on this garden malady. I was standing in the garden, shovel in hand and just stood there, staring and feeling a …
Read More »No garden is perfect, and I can tell you that the Civic Garden Center/Sooty Acres has some humdinger of spaces to work in. We have gardens abutting a busy road, areas that are under well established trees (read many, many …
Read More »Let’s kill a tree! I say that tongue in cheek after seeing this over the holiday weekend; mulch piled up to a record setting height. Why, why, why? Why is it so hard to break some habits that will ultimately …
Read More »Pick up new kitchen skills and recipe ideas at the Civic Garden Center’s summer food classes August is a time of bounty in the garden (and farmers’ markets)… so what are you going to do with all those fruits and …
Read More »As a gardener, I have a wide range of feelings about insects. I go out of my way to attract certain insects to my vegetable garden, namely pollinators and insects that eat or parasitize garden pests. While some visitors to …
Read More »This morning’s rain, the big stuff, the blow-the-roof-off, turn-semi’s-over, strip-every-green-and-flowering-thing kind of rain is now in West Virginia and we just had a soft, leftover shower, the kind that doesn’t even show up on radar and the birds sing through. …
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