Playing in Dirt: Gardening doesn’t shut down in November
I don’t know about you, but November is one of my favorite months. Who can resist the warm redolence of turkeys roasting, pumpkin pies baking and many other traditional aromas of the season?
Possumhaw: Food for thought
Just the holiday leftovers included three bags of Scoops, a 46-ounce container of cashews, a bag of Skinny Popcorn, a half-indulged container of coffee and cookies ice cream and half a bag of empty Coke cans.
Mississippi tea garden in the works
Raindrops bead on the green leaves of thousands of young plants in the shade nursery at the Great Mississippi Tea Co. in Brookhaven, a glistening endorsement of Jason McDonald’s plan for land where cattle once roamed.
Hey, you do-it-yourselfers: Columbus now has a community garden
Invasive nutgrass can’t hide from Sarah Sanders. Kneeling beside a wood-framed garden plot Tuesday, she eradicated stray intruders bold enough to show their green faces in a bed of peppers.
“Look how easy that came up. I grew up in the Delta, and you can’t pull a weed up there — you’ve got to dig it out!” she beamed.
West Bank plants tear gas grenade garden
BILIN, West Bank — Residents of this Palestinian village have planted flowers in hundreds of spent Israeli tear gas grenades to honor those killed during
Boys and Girls Club plans educational community garden
STARKVILLE — By the spring, members of the Oktibbeha County Boys and Girls Club will be growing and harvesting their own fruits and vegetables.
A grant and green thumbs turn scrub dirt into a living classroom
Waylon Kelly walks among the butterfly bushes (buddleja davidii, to the purist) intrigued by lance-like clusters of tiny purple flowers in the new butterfly and reading garden at his elementary school.
MUW to dedicate Memorial Garden as family, friends remember Dorabel Craig
Family, friends and members of the extended community at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus will gather Friday, April 15, to dedicate the Dorabel Craig Memorial Garden. The ceremony to honor Dorabel Moore Craig, Class of 1938, will take place at 1:30 p.m.
Shannon Bardwell: “How does your garden grow … “
The square foot garden is coming along fine. I ate the five strawberries, 15 beans and one squash produced thus far; Sam said he’d stick with Cheerios. Something got to the lettuce before I did, but if zinnias and leafy cosmos were edible the Bardwells would have a cornucopia accented with one humongous sunflower.
Shannon Bardwell: “How does your garden grow … “
The square foot garden is coming along fine. I ate the five strawberries, 15 beans and one squash produced thus far; Sam said he’d stick with Cheerios. Something got to the lettuce before I did, but if zinnias and leafy cosmos were edible the Bardwells would have a cornucopia accented with one humongous sunflower.