AP Home and Garden
EARTH EDUCATION: Colors
I went to the beach for the weekend, and when I came back, my peppers were turning colors. Look!
AP Home and Garden
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FAMILY
EARTH EDUCATION: Suburban jungle
It's August. The days are shortening, the campus is repopulated, and the tomato plants have turned into a jungle.
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FAMILY
EARTH EDUCATION: Odds and ends
Other places get rain. Just rain. Even the neighborhoods around me can manage to have rain that doesn't litter the streets with debris and bring the local greenery to its knees. Not my neighborhood. No, we always get the hammer of Thor.
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FAMILY
EARTH EDUCATION: On stakes and customer service
One thing that's nagged at me a bit since I started my garden is that I've gotten most of my supplies at big-box stores. My tomatoes, peppers and herbs came from the farmers' market, but the supplies I've gotten since - stakes, pest control, fertilizer - I've gotten at either Lowe's or Home Depot...
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EARTH EDUCATION: I bet Peter Pan didn't grow tomatoes
Perhaps it's the heat, but I've been confronted more and more with my powerful inner laziness.
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FAMILY
EARTH EDUCATION: Friends and changes of plan
A couple of my friends came to visit this weekend. I've known Leslie since the first few days of our freshman year at college, and she met her husband Matt that same year, so we've all known each other for quite a long time. They're living in Richmond now with their two little boys, and Leslie...


