GreenPrints #078, Summer 2009

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

Over the Rainbow
A boy finds himself—in his neighbor’s garden.

To Know This Joy
Excerpts from the new Beverley Nichols book, Rhapsody in Green.

Zucchini-tini, Anyone?
What to do with all that homegrown harvest.

The Garden of Perpetual Sunshine
A hippie gardener tries to create utopia—by herself.

My Father’s $1,000,000 Garden
Was it going to save us a fortune … or cost us a fortune?

Gifts to Cherish
Healing in the garden.

Fairy Child:
My personal goblin? Mackie, the gardener.

The Would-Be Gardener
She had the hat, the gloves—and the foolishness.

I Hope That I Shall Never See
Mike McGrath burn another tree!

Favorite Things
A gardener contemplates why some people like peppers—and others penguins!

Find the Guinea Pig!
A most novel weeding approach.

Watering with Dad
Evenings with memories and a hose.

Interview with the Corn Vampire
What do raccoons really think?

Song of the Butterflies:
My grandfather didn’t talk to people much. He talked to …