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For Creative Success—Be Like a Weed

In preparation for the on-coming winter, Bob and I weeded a hillside garden that boasts proud, colorful daylilies, a run-away oregano plant, rampant dill, and two small boxwoods. We carefully weeded and mulched that bed last fall and, this spring, pulled out most of the young weeds. The bed looked beautiful. And then I traveled […]

Prepare Your Creative Soil

The process of weeding can be as beneficial to the gardener as to the garden. It gives scope to the aggressive instinct—what a satisfaction to pull an enemy by the roots and throw him into a heap! And yet, paradoxically, weeding is the most peaceful of any outdoor task. Bertha Damon, A Sense of Humus […]