The Dirt
Give your House Plants a Spa Day
House Plant Care By: Sandy Swegel Right about this time of year is when your indoor plants are all stressed out. It’s been months of winter and dry heated air. Outdoors in nature, wild plants are enjoying spring rains that clean off their leaves and freshen their soil. Once again, we plant lovers know to […]
Take a Listening Walk
By: Sandy Swegel The skies were gray this morning. The landscape was brown and dead. I kept looking for Spring but at best there were just the green tips of bulbs appearing among dead leaves. Maybe the buds were swelling on trees. It was cold, but it still felt like Spring. How could that be? […]
LAB GIRL
A Good Seed Read By: Sandy Swegel Hope Jahren has helped me fall even more deeply with seeds and the natural world this week. Our book group just started to read her best selling book “Lab Girl.” Lab Girl is like two books in one….a marvelous account of her life as a woman in […]