Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. How Does Your Garden Grow?

Well, because a girl should think twice before not doing what nm tells you to do, I’ve acquired a couple of pepper plants and a couple of pots to put them in.  I got a cayanne pepper plant and a purple bell pepper plant, which, when I told my dad about it, required him to [...]

This is Exactly Why I’m Against This Guest Worker Nonsense

Archcrone reports that some workers who are here under the H-2A visa–which is, let me remind you, for non-immigrants who just want to come here to work and then go home, which is, let me remind you, supposed to be the big fix-it for our “illegal immigrant” problem (some giant guest worker program), but instead [...]

International Plant Appreciation Day

I’m sure some folks will celebrate in their way (*coughpuffcoughpuffcoughpass*).  I, on the other hand, am taking the opportunity to brag that my rosemary, sage, and lavender made it through the winter and my lavender, which remained the same size for the whole time I’ve owned it just suddenly last week was all like “Oh, [...]