A cold front with gale-force winds descended upon the Cincinnati area last Saturday – making for a really COLD soccer game. . . But that was no excuse to stay out of the garden, since my husband came through and delivered several pickup loads of the free mulch, mentioned in a former post, as a [...]

The last Friday in April is Arbor Day in Ohio. That’s today – April 30, 2010. According to the Arbor Day website, Arbor Day was first conceptualized by J. Sterling Morton, who moved to the Nebraska Territory from Detroit. He and his wife were lovers of nature, and planted lots of trees and shrubs at [...]