Garden Notes

Ahhhhh Spring! For us gardeners, we can't wait to start planning our gardens and going out there and getting dirty! Our perennials are finally emerging from their winter slumber and the trees are showing their tender new spring leaves! But what about color in this year's garden?

Spring is an excellent time of the year to take inventory of the things needed to prepare the garden for the growing season ahead.

Fire and Flood: a People's History of Climate Change (from 1979 to the present) Eugene Linden. New York: Penguin Books, 2022 Reviewer John Giehl, Master Gardener Around 1870 Mark Twain observed The weather: everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it.

Just as plants spread their roots to take in information necessary for a healthy result, gardeners reach out to nourish their curiosity through horticultural study and experimentation.

When Marco Polo set out to find the truth behind the stories of herbs and spices of our wildest dreams, little did he realize how impactful his journey would be to the culinary practices of the world as he knew it.