GreenPrints #108, Winter 2016-17

Description

This back issue of The Weeder’s Digest includes the following gardening stories and tales:

• My Sprawling Cherry Tomato Plants Take one. Please!
• The Most Unforgettable Christmas Tree Mom’s brave deed. In Dresden. In 1947.
• My Garden Origin Story It started with a … tortoise?
• The Old Rose Plain, wild—and unforgettable.
• Wish Books When the sky is gray, the light level is low, and dispositions are grim …
• King Roscoe, His Royal Hineyness And I, the lowly palace gardener.
• Happy Ending What every gardener dreams of (but doesn’t always get).
• Miracle in Pink A blessing from Mama.
• Chester the Toad My amphibious little friend.
• I’m a Peasant And I’m glad about it.
• Turning Certainties To garden or not to garden?
• Tomato Heartburn Mike McGrath does a good deed—-and (what do you know?) it works!
• The Prison Garden And how it changed my life.
• Snail Wars My face-off with a gastropod.
• Aim for Beauty Even if you have to plant with jackhammers!
• Sammy Gets Married! The third child of the GreenPrints family ties the knot.
• After the Spring A 1983 garden essay by the famed American playwright.