LIFE'S A GARDEN

Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.

Gardening Has Many Successes

This seems like a good time to think about becoming more self-sufficient in our lives. It looks like we are going to be at home with our...

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Vines Add A Statment To Garden

Now that we are deep into March, I look back on the month and even February and January. We have had more rainfall then we've had in a...

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Time In The Yard

This is the time of year that people are sticking their toes into the yard. It is a little early to pull up the pansies and the other...

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Rule The Roost In Your Backyard

I think back to my childhood growing up in Madison County after our family moved out from Jackson. I remember when Highway 51 was a...

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Time For Pre-Summer Tasks

This weekend Mimi and I sneaked out of town to visit our daughter in Greenville, S.C. Greenville looked and felt a lot like our hometown....

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Change Also Affects Gardening

Our world has changed so much so fast. There are people still living that remember when space exploration was a seemingly impossible...

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Yards, Nurseries, & True 'Local'

I spend a lot of time in the woods in nearby Yazoo County. On my drive to get there I get to see what is happening in the country yards....

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Calendars— An Important Gardening Tool

It takes me about this long to get 2019 put away and admit that 2020 has taken over. Every year it takes me about this long to put the...

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LIFE'S A GARDEN ... DIG IT!

This year has started off to be one of big changes and realizations for me. The events that have occurred already are not bad ones, nor...

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