In My Garden

From the Journal

• Journal Why people stake, loop and fold their lit lawn figures
• Journal How to tell a lighted garden flag that lasts from one that fails
• Journal How to put lighted yard figures away so they come back
• Journal Why a six foot inflatable snowman fails, and how to keep one up
• Journal Why a sagging cord loop keeps a yard snowman running
• Journal What October Wind and Dew Do to a Lawn Ghost
• Journal How to tell a good inflatable yard figure from a poor one
• Journal Why raised beds outlive ground rows in a hard frost
• Journal Why gardeners keep buried lights instead of stringing lit ones
• Journal Why garden path lights die by February and what actually lasts
• Journal Why cabbage beads dew when other leaves stay dry
• Journal What Raised Soil Does Differently Once the Nights Turn Cold
• Journal What clay pots actually need before the first frost
• Journal How to keep a small water basin alive through a hard freeze
• Journal Choosing a garden globe light that survives past October
• Journal Why herbs left to dry outdoors often rot instead of curing
• Journal Why a garden corner gets one small point of color after dark
• Journal What outdoor seating actually survives a winter outside
• Journal How to place low garden light so it survives the winter
• Journal How to choose a stake light that survives its first winter
• Journal Why a border gets marked with light instead of paint
• Journal How to read a winter garden in one look through the window
• Journal Why Clay Pots Split in a September Shed and Plastic Ones Don't
• Journal How to Tell a Wool Blanket That Will Outlast Winter
• Journal How to save herb seed from a sunny windowsill