GreenPrints #114, Summer 2018

Description

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

• Lifesaving Rescuing a chipmunk—and getting rescued myself.
• It’s Better to Give “Dad, did you put our extra vegetables in people’s cars?”
• Watering Cans and Rain Barrels And the peace they bring me.
• Strawberry Summer Kindness to a stranger—me.
• Getting Something to Grow If I could bring a garden to flourishing, maybe I could grow something within.
• My Auntie She never put her wishbone where her backbone was supposed to be.
• My Son Jack Super Athlete? No, Super Gardener!
• Snowed Peas Mike McGrath gets fooled again—by peas!
• Recycling Herself My mother’s bravest act.
• I Heard Corn Grow A child and a crop grow together.
• Size Matters Why are some seeds big and some seeds small?
• To Mow or Not to Mow I figured if he could do it, how hard can it be?
• Quick Mulch Job This won’t take long. Riiiiiight.
• And So to Bed The story behind our—and our gardens’—beds.