Columns
The importance of play in a child’s life
If you are someone who enjoys listening to people with more knowledge and expertise than you possess in fields that interest you, you may want to inve...
Making soggy dirt fluffy
This spring season has brought huge amounts of rain just when we’re all eager to put out vegetable gardens and flowers. No one likes to plant in...
The helplessness of man
Since the dawning of time it has been man who slayed the dragons, planted, cultivated and harvested the crop to provide for the family. It has been ma...
Feng Shui leads to better landscaping
Regular readers of this column know that we are hard-headed realists when it comes to landscape design. “Form follows function” is our gui...
Woman was in a hurry
It was one of those mornings. A morning when the slight, cool breeze humming through the bedroom window, turning into a whisper that softens the brow ...
Tips for handling crispy sweet corn
We’re all looking forward to having crisp, juicy locally-grown sweet corn! Gardeners who grow their own sweet corn know the joy of harvesting th...
He who wears the pants
I grew up in a time when men were men and women were women, and I suppose I received a strong helping of “machoism” that has not always se...
It is the time to remind everyone of food safety procedures. First, let me report that there is no such thing as the five-second rule. If something fa...
It really wasn’t that great
If we are honest with ourselves, our psyches become stuck in a period within our lives that we have found to be most pleasing, or most formative. For ...
Enjoy showy, low-maintenance peonies
Around Memorial Day each year you see many colorful clumps of showy peonies in farmyards and gardens. Some of them give off an intoxicating sweet frag...
