GreenPrints #090, Summer 2012

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

Of Wheelchairs and Hoses
You think hose hassles drive YOU crazy?

Brown Paper Bag
The gift from my dear old uncle’s garden.

Truck Garden
Actually, truck IN the garden!

Fat Chance
What I learned about gardening the day my back gave out.

Of Daisies, Fibonacci, and Fish Ice Cream
Gardening and math DO go together.

Return of the Garden Cat
Life in the garden—from the feline’s point of view.

The Year I Learned to Can
Boiling beans into the wee, wee hours.

Stella
The tale of a cherished cherry tree.

The Monkey Garden
The moment a girl’s life changed.

Two Trees Walk into a Bar …
It’s summer! Time for Mike McGrath’s hysterical Christmas Tree story!

Eat It or Admire It?
Should gardens be pretty, practical—or both? A historical perspective.

Sad Pansy Faces
How Granny used a flower to stop my sister’s (and my) crying.

Danny’s Tree
For the brother I never knew.

Nana and the Bunny
The day I saw the other side of my grandmother.

Suscipe
A Benedictine hermit asks God to uphold her—when the Japanese beetles invade.