Garden Genii

08/29/2017

Mowing by Braille. A new skill to add to my portfolio. 😬🤣

04/12/2017

A memory from my childhood--

"Der spring is sprung-
Der grass is riz-
I wonder where dem boidies is...
Der liddle boids is on der wing--
-- ain't that absoid?
Der liddle wings is on der boid!"

-- I have no idea who the author is, but this always made me giggle. especially in the spring... And I promise you --der grass IS RIZ, Almost killed my mower this weekend. ;-)

03/31/2017

Does anyone else remember that old saying-- "March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb"? Well I think March got it backwards this year. Such wind the last 2 days! hahaha!

03/18/2017

A Gardener's work is never done--
yet happy is she who finds it fun.... ;-)

12/16/2016

Study: People who are exposed to glyphosate herbicides in their work are more likely to suffer from an aggressive form of skin cancer called cutaneous melanoma. Exposure to the fungicides mancozeb or maneb was also associated with a higher risk of this type of cancer. When subjects were exposed to both pesticides and occupational sun exposure, the risk increased even more. How many more people will get burned by Monsanto before our do-nothing regulatory agencies do something useful. Ban Glyphosate.

READ: http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16866-exposure-to-glyphosate-herbicides-with-sun-exposure-increases-risk-of-skin-cancer-study

07/11/2016

I guess its time to pay a little more attention to my page... :-D I better dig up some new photos!

11/19/2015

Well-- it's really too bad that grass roots aren't edible. I'm digging them out of a clients garden and the huge pile of them look like spaghetti...

-- so I picture this: "The Grassroot Spaghetti tonight then, Madame? Excellent choice. Would that be the Crabgrass Root or the Canarygrass Root?
"Oh, I think the Canarygrass root-- its so much more plentiful, don't you think?"

"Oh, quite, Madame, yes, you are so right. and for the sauce, then, we have a lovely sauce de mole, or would you prefer the specialty- a tantalizing escargot saute' made with fresh escargot, harvested by hand by our chef himself, hand-picked for only the tenderest of snails, who have all been fed only on the finest of roses, ensuring their delicate flavor and aroma- topped with a light scattering of chickweed greens and bittercress for a delightfully piquant touch of flavor..."
...hahaahha obviously my mind runs away with me while I am weeding. But oh, we could feed the world on grass roots... ;-)

08/08/2015

06/23/2015

When you have mud on your knees, and black dirt under your nails; when you have dead leaves in your bra, and rocks in your shoes; when you have sweat making clean tracks in the dust on your face, and the pile of weeds is bigger than you-- you know you had a good day in the garden. :-)