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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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Sticky Pants
IT SEEMS TO ME like we just went through all four seasons last week. On Monday we were avoiding heat exhaustion. We drink too much water...
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Nov 18, 20235 min read


There’s No Place Like Home
We are entering a week that I like to call my wrap-up week. Some tasks in our yards should have been completed by now, or at least you...
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Nov 10, 20236 min read


Sweet Tea
I AM GOING to jump back one story that I was in the middle of telling before I wrote last week‘s fall gardening tips. Mimi and I had...
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Nov 6, 20235 min read


Pumpkin Head
This is the last weekend before Halloween. The day after that it will be November, it’s time to start thinking thanksgiving, Christmas...
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Oct 27, 20236 min read


Walk With Purpose
MIMI AND I HAD a hometown friend who we hadn’t seen in a while. We wondered where he had gone. One day when we bumped into him in Jackson...
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Oct 14, 20239 min read


Big Decisions
Happy October! We have finally arrived at the gates of fall, leading down the road toward the Christmas season, next stop: winter. I have...
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Oct 6, 20237 min read


Mission Accomplished
Last weekend Mimi and I drove to Nashville. One of our suppliers hosted an expo in the Music City Center in the middle of downtown. We...
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Sep 29, 20236 min read


Pumpkins and Plants
As we roll into the last week of September there is a change in the air. We have finally reached the temperatures that make things change...
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Sep 22, 20234 min read


There’s No Place Like Home
Already we are moving into mid September! We have begun planting our fall crop at our greenhouses at Garden Works. This week we are...
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Sep 16, 20236 min read


Almost There
We have Labor Day behind us. To me the countdown towards fall begins now. The stores are beginning to bring in the fall stuff, the coffee...
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Sep 10, 20235 min read


Visitors!
I was staring out my kitchen window in a daze while I’m mulled over what this weeks article would be about. I have plenty more travel...
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Sep 3, 20235 min read


Another Great Trip for the Books
We are certainly going through a bumpy August. I do expect it to get hot, but I never thought we would see these kinds of temperatures....
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Aug 25, 20236 min read
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