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Dee and Carol talked about border plants, a new book on garden record-keeping, books by Anna Pavord and several other topics.

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Some Links:
Dee's Instagram reel about organic potting soil
Carol's blog post from 2010: The Wilderness Called

The Tiny Farm Planner: Recordkeeping, Seasonal To-Dos, and Resources for Manging Your Small-Scale Home Farm, by Jill Ragan, (Amazon), Author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm (Amazon)

On the Bookshelf: Anna Pavord
The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That has Made Men Mad. (Amazon link) Good used copies.

Bulb (Amazon link)

The Curious Gardener (Amazon Link) Another month-by-month, year in the garden book.

The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants (Amazon Link)

Dirt: Taxonimists are also changing bird names.

Rabbit Holes:
Not Just a Homemaker: The Extraordinary Life of Sheila MacGregor, by Paulette Brooks.

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Topics this week included refreshing your flower garden in the fall, vegetables you can still grow, a new book by Barbara Damrosch, some amazing plants, and poisonous book covers.

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Links:
Hayefield Seeds
Peony's Envy
Cobrahead Tools
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener by Niki Jabbour

On the bookshelf: A Life in the Garden, Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season, by Barbara Damrosch. (Amazon link)

Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch's website

Dirt:
Plants are amazing!
Snow on the Prairie
Beautyberry Leaves

Rabbit Holes:
Arsenic and Old Gardening Books

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This week, we talked about spring-flowering trees to plant now, steps you can take to be ready for spring in the vegetable garden, a few favorite books by a favorite author and all kinds of other topics.

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Flowers:

A special shout out for J.C. Raulston from Oklahoma, who ran the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

On the Bookshelf:

A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden, by Sydney Eddison (Amazon link)

Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older, by Sydney Eddison. (Amazon link)

A Passion for Daylilies: The Flowers and the People, by Sydney Eddison (Amazon link) This one is all about famous dayliliy hybridizers, and if you’re a daylily aficionado, you should buy it.

Dirt:

There are some new botanical Lego sets… like poinsettias! And a Christmas wreath, and a chrysanthemum and plum blossoms.

Rabbit holes

Vegan color pens: Ohuhu Markers.

Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing: Rosetta E. Clarkson.

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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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