GreenPrints #109, Spring 2017

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

• My Row of 2,000 Planting a field of tomatoes or getting my nails ready for a wedding: Which is more important?
• I Hate Cutting Grass So I taught my mower to do it for me!
• The Survivor Even thought it spent a year in a box, this little daffodil bulb bloomed … years later!
• The Botanical Magician That was my dad. And his best trick was on us.
• An Injured Goose Why I decided it was better for her to leave her be.
• Get to Stay Never name a stray plant, or–like a stray pet–it may …
• The Plant That Was Held Prisoner Another wacky gardening adventure by former Organic Gardening Editor Mike McGrath
• Poor Little Hearts? What does a gardener do with aging chickens–write poems to them?
• Help! I’m a gardener. With a problem.
• A Dish Best Not Served For me, that’s true–of revenge and spinach.
• My Most Hated Vegetable Lima beans don’t want us to eat them. They want us dead.
• Taking a Moment To Be Still Sometimes we forget.
• Black-Eyed Suzies Losing Mom and Dad.
• The Hidden Life of Trees Trees go so far as to feed each other!
• Why I Didn’t Want To Go To Italy Remember what Dorothy said about Kansas?