» Articles from 16 August 2008

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Speaking of Weeds…

Here are some tips for August gardening from Margaret Roach, creator of the “A Way to Garden” website.  Anne Raver of the New York Times calls it “the best garden blog I’ve ever seen”!

“I SOMETIMES THINK THAT AUGUST, not April, is the cruelest month (though T.S. Eliot thought otherwise). Hazy, hot and humid…and plum tuckered out. But give up we must not. Every weed pulled now is a hundred you don’t have to deal with later (well, who knows the precise math of mama weed to baby weed, but you get the idea: prevention!). Don’t let them go to seed.”

Click here to go the A Way to Garden website. Read more…