daysingarden

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Aldo Leopold celebrates amateur researchers by giving an example of Margaret Morse Nice, who studied song sparrows in her back yard and became an authority on bird behavior. I don't expect to become an authority on anything, but I like the idea of "citizen scientists." Thomas Jefferson famously said, "But though an old man, I am but a young gardener." Except that I am a woman, I find that Jefferson's quotation suits my perspective on gardening. I hope to record here my successes and failures in the garden through many happy growing seasons.

Posts by daysingarden:

• Bird news: dark-eyed juncos, American robins, and common grackles
• Butternut squash bounty; also pumpkins
• Weed report 2016
• Wild Senna and Sulphur caterpillars
• Black swallowtail caterpillars on dill and fennel
• The yearly cycle of garlic
• A successful onion harvest
• What are monarch butterflies doing in my garden
• Some problems with peppers
• Fortex pole beans are thriving