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By: Lavender coolers – The Inadvertent Gardener

Lavender coolers – The Inadvertent Gardener — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:24:12 +0000

[...] over and sit with us on our porch,” wrote Heal in an email to me. “We’ve made a most excellent beverage out of our weeds, and we think you [...]

By: Spacing out « The Inadvertent Gardener

Spacing out « The Inadvertent Gardener — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:18:51 +0000

[...] Steve’s evaluation at face value. In the meantime, my blood sugar was dropping fast. Our trip to Maggie and Heal’s and then to Paul’s had taken long enough that we were now cutting into dinnertime, and I’m tart [...]

By: Rabbit pie « The Inadvertent Gardener

Rabbit pie « The Inadvertent Gardener — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:05:48 +0000

[...] our gardening lesson at Maggie and Heal’s, they shared with us some unique ideas of how to repel rabbits. Of course, [...]

By: Heirloom panzanella « The Inadvertent Gardener

Heirloom panzanella « The Inadvertent Gardener — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:59:28 +0000

[...] would have to heavily feature garden products. Because, after all, Maggie and Heal gave me my first gardening lesson, and let Steve and I borrow their shovel, and apparently got to the point in their confidence about [...]

By: Lavender coolers « The Inadvertent Gardener

Lavender coolers « The Inadvertent Gardener — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:51:02 +0000

[...] 2007 Herbs , Recipes , Flowers , Friends “Come over and sit with us on our porch,” wrote Heal in an email to me. “We’ve made a most excellent beverage out of our weeds, and we think you [...]

By: The Inadvertent Gardener

The Inadvertent Gardener — Tue, 30 May 2006 23:52:52 +0000

[...] During our gardening lesson at Maggie and Heal’s, they shared with us some unique ideas of how to repel rabbits. Of course, the easiest way would be to try some sort of fence. [...]

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Sun, 14 May 2006 16:09:17 +0000

Alaska, huh? Eskimos? I don’t know…this sounds like a logical reach to me. However, you’re right — I was merrily, blithely, nay, irresponsibly trying to squeeze too many cherry tomato seedlings into too small a pot, so you’re right…the garden is, really, an act of mercy.

:-) Genie

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 14 May 2006 14:28:07 +0000

I sense in some of these comments the inference of a certain level of coertion on my part. You’re an adult. If you didn’t want to garden, you could have Just Said No.

I was FACILITATING the experience. Not taking over. No. (Okay, maybe some) but you turned to me, for advice and support and, told half the population of Iowa City that we were a-gardening. Oh yes. Loved the idea of gardening. Loved the salt of the earth implications…then folded like a tomato plant in a pot when faced with the reality of planting a garden at midnight (which is the best time to do it, that’s how they do it in Alaska, btw, the plant at midnight, the Eskimos do, so the plants are firmly sturdy in the soil when the sun finally rises…how else would they grow tomatoes in that climate? And some of the best tomatoes I’ve ever had were Alaskan. Anyway, to those people reading this: She was…well she wasn’t giddy. She was hungry. And tired. But I couldn’t just leave the tomatoes sitting there, abandoned in both pots and in the planter’s at Paul’s. THEY NEEDED A HOME.