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Homegrown Potato Salad
Well it's been a while since I wrote anything here. Busy, busy...But here is the culmination of last year's garden--homegrown potatoes and tomatoes and wild herbs potato salad to the tune of Monsanto Took My Seed Blues by Old Bull...Check it out, fu...

IRS?!
I know this is quite far from gardening but seems to me something we should all be aware of so I may as well post it where I can. Just watched this informative documentary on google video about the IRS and our monetary system. Best if you just see i...

Humming Bird Hawk Moth
It is so nice to be visited every day in the evening when I am out watering the garden and admiring the corn and pumpkins.  Growing in the corner of the garden is a patch of bouncing bet or soapwort and the blossoms are lovely.  The little humming bi...

Deer in the Garden
Well the deer or maybe it is the groundhog have been in the garden again.  This time they decided to eat some of the tomato bushes.  Luckily I have such a lot it didn't really matter, but it is sad to see them eaten when they have spent so much energ...

Garden’s Closure Leaves Nowhere to Go for Three Gorges’ Plants
I just read this informative article about the plants that were rescued from drowning. It seems that the area that was flooded in the creation of these dams in China was an area that had an amazingly diverse amount of plants unique to this area. Pl...