GreenPrints #119, Autumn 2019

Description

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

• My Dinosaur Bromeliad A flower bud that looked like a dinosaur?
• Nearsighted What I’ve learned from looking close.
• Dad and the Fantasticks Our fathers’ special friendship.
• Our Great Giant Pumpkin We were sure we had a winner!
• My Deep-Seeded Passion A high-school football player shares his love for gardening.
• “Sod It!” An adventure with Maggie and Marge, “The Gardening Fools.”
• The Gardening Fools Get Golden Now … 16 years later … the sequel!
• Growing From Seed No instant garden for me!
• Kingwood Connections Cutting flowers—and collecting grandmothers.
• Secret Ingredient Sweet Potatoes What made Daddy’s vegetables grow so big?
• The Secret Garden Can an untended garden really survive?
• The Hedonist’s Garden If it tastes good, it’s bad for you? Not in the garden!
• Founding Gardener David Hosack’s valiant attempts to make America a botanical paradise. An excerpt from American Eden.
• Barley Flowers A dog you could name a flower for.