Flowery Resolutions for 2008!

Resolution 1-Stop Giving. (Unless they are firefighters.)

Yes, you read that right. We have not given enough? One of the eco-police proposed to the PTA, with the "time" for the holidays, instead of buying gifts that no one really loves, and eventually end up in our overcrowded landfills. I turned my eyes to his idea and then went home and made it my own. I offered my time, my best friend, with the help of their so-called simple garden project. My thought was a) I love my friend Elissa,b) There are only the addition of fresh compost and I am a master gardener, so this should be a breeze.

Nun, ich hatte vergessen, es war kein einfacher Weg, um ihrem Garten aus ihrer Straße Stadt-Zugang, so mussten wir unsere Schubkarre Belastungen durch die Kunst ihres Mannes Studio Fahr. It 'was like shooting the bull (or Lucy and Ethel), dissolved in a china shop and in the studio was cramped full of ancient, elegant and expensive rework lamps, chandeliers and wall lamps. After reaching the courtyard, and without graceBreath, then we had to climb over a wheelbarrow of cement, shovel the mixture into 1-gallon bucket and then methodically increasing the radius dry on a wall 3 feet high and in the garden. After an hour of this misery and misfortune, stopped me and said, "Dear Diary,

I hate gardening, and I hate Elissa, and I hate the PTA lady who feel guilty for shopping at Marshalls. Gooders should stay home. "

However, if all plants were hidden in their fertile ElissaEnvironment, was so grateful and confident and I felt the reassuring warmth of altruism, rather than my usual sting of cynicism.

As I drove home through the Park Presidio of San Francisco, I discovered a small, spicy Asian woman trying to push his car out of a ditch. I stopped to help. The woman spoke broken English, as we struggled with his car, but did not move. I canceled my phone and called my friend a block away to Lucas Films (yes, I'm name-dropping). In five minutes, ISan Francisco, was surrounded by a fire truck and a pack of cute firefighters. They treat us first make sure that we are not evil, and then he asked me the car and the Asian woman. I purposely tried to respond with slow, deliberate responses to prolong this moment of great divine liability, decency, and absolute attention to me, as long as possible to take.

I hugged goodbye Asian woman, and she anointed a saint.

Perhaps "What Goes Around" is back around...Okay, over there in 2008.

2-No More Egg Nog, less water.

Yippeee! This is the best year ever garden, because we just launched our lawn! Not co-dependence. Another round of organic, locally produced eggnog for everyone! We are digging our yard and replace them with native and drought tolerant plants. I heard: "I'm hot." I thirst for hay, ho, and are rusty. HELP! I want my mummy! "No whiners strong. We bring in plants that are self-sufficientand have high self-esteem. My new favorite obsession is unpretentious Romneya Coulter, Matilija Poppy too. Annie's Annuals nursery gardeners in defining a suitable "unbridled." At first I thought he was talking about me (it was an accident in my year?), Until I noticed that he spoke about the Matilija poppy. I immediately felt a bond with the "go-getter, I'm on a mission plant. It grows to 6 feet tall and blooms all summer with flowers resemble fried champagneEggs!

No. 3-cult of the Worm

It is said that spending in the late 1800s, British scientist Charles Darwin for almost 40 years studying earthworms. You wonder where you found the time to develop his theories of evolution? Earthworms are the workhorses of the garden, doing the dirty work so that our soil nutrient. Debbie Tidd, from "The Gardens of Heather Farm" teaches a class vermicomposting impressive here in Marin County, CA. She was hooked by the worm and native of New York can nowpick you up and keep you, without creaking. This year I am planning a small plastic box appetizer to update the "Can-o-worms, worm bins between the Cadillac commercial. Besides the name allow me to collect large amounts of worm castings.

Oh, Charles Darwin, who did not know.

Sometimes, late at night, when I can not sleep

I will be your child's name on the bridge with earthworms.
It's so wrong? . .

N. 4 is a bug-positive

I am goes to a positive error. No, it is a terrible, 16-legged creepy crawlers. Rather, I still bug you and your friends in a dramatic and sometimes arrogantly organic gardener. I'm going to flatter and rate all of you, with nature, not against them.

This is a joke, I swear!

That's why I was adamant: My way of working has been a young man spraying a chemical fertilizer on a small green lawn, while his buddy worked a strong leaf> Blowers diffusion of nutrients rich leaves on the street, where he ended up in our landfills or overburden or storm drains blocked the road.

Did you know that creates the guidance of a leaf blower for half an 'hour, such as pollution than driving a car 100 miles? And that these leaves can be used as mulch for flower beds?

A recent study by the National Audubon Society has shown that homeowners with herbicides 50% more, when she was 20 yearsYears. Many pesticides and herbicides contain ingredients, which was listed as a carcinogen. That eventually end up in our air, soil and water.

See, is not so great?

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