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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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Growing in all Directions
THE PEOPLE OF Mississippi have spoken. A medical marijuana program is being put into place as I write this. There is so much work to be...
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Mar 10, 20228 min read
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Einstein
LOOKS TO ME LIKE things are about to get real around the Mississippi gardening world. This week’s temperatures are hovering around the...
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Mar 4, 20227 min read
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Garden Clubs Are The Best
AT GARDEN WORKS we have two rooms we have made available to garden clubs to hold their meetings. When the covid came around the garden...
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Feb 25, 20226 min read
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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree
I CAN REMEMBER when I was in the third grade and going to St. Richard’s catholic school my father came home with the news that we were...
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Feb 19, 20227 min read
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Got Those Roses Ordered Dummies?
FEBRUARY IS A MONTH I eagerly await as far as getting back into the yard. I have to admit I’ve been pretty lax in my yard since around...
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Feb 11, 20226 min read
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It's Not Good to Fool Mother Nature
I WAS THINKING about a trip Mimi and I took to Jamaica. We were ready for a break and our slow season had arrived. By that time we had...
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Feb 4, 20227 min read
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Easy Pets
WHEN I THINK ABOUT all the different aspects of garden centers I realize that tropical plants are one of my favorite categories. I am...
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Jan 21, 20229 min read
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Let's Go Yurting Mississippi
IT FEELS LIKE THE Mississippi winter has finally arrived. Our plants outside were growing just like it was springtime just before New...
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Jan 14, 20225 min read
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What Just Happened?
WE CAN CALL IT ANOTHER year in the books. Christmas is behind us with this week of further languishing and trying not to look at the...
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Dec 31, 20217 min read
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Deep Christmas
BY THE TIME you read this it’s going to be what I call “Deep Christmas.” Deep Christmas is when it’s really getting late to be finding...
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Dec 27, 20216 min read
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Time to Get Serious
IT SEEMS LIKE THIS is the week that things get kind of serious. We know all year long that Christmas is coming every year. This is when...
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Dec 17, 20215 min read
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The Good Old Days
THESE ARE THE GOOD old days in the garden world. The temperatures are beginning to drop, the rains are beginning to fall and the hours of...
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Dec 10, 20215 min read
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