I’ve been banned from pruning alone. Now this may seem odd, a horticulture agent not being allowed to prune alone. But there are good reasons, and at the time, I was not a horticulture agent. The first time I pruned a tree, I climbed up with my saw and bypass pruners, and I balanced between ...
“What’s the difference between these packets?” my husband asked me after he picked up his cup of coffee. “These are different non-nutritive sweeteners,” I replied as I read the ingredient statement. “Some are sweeter than others.” “Could you pick out a packet for me?” he ...
“I need to check something in the kitchen,” a colleague said. She was working from home. “I hear the smoke alarm,” she added quickly before turning off her Zoom camera and microphone. She sounded remarkably calm. I would have bolted from the room. And I probably would have forgotten ...
The days are getting longer. In the month of February, we gain about an hour and half of daylight from the beginning of the month to the end of the month. February always feels like the turning point of winter to me. I learned a new term, "solar spring," from a news clip, and it occurs from ...
Seed starting time is just around the corner. I would like to share a cautionary tale about seedlings while there is still time to order or purchase your seed-starting supplies. This way, you won’t have to live in fear of your precious tomato seedlings dying, as I did last year. Two years ...
We were seated at a sunny table in a restaurant recently. Brightness on a cold winter day always boosts people’s moods. When I sat in the booth, unfortunately, the sun was lasering my eyes. All the tables were full, so we could not move to a different spot. The window had no shade. I could ...
