Schiddygarden
Welcome to Schiddygarden—the garden that's much worse than yours. If you’re expecting useful gardening information and advice, you might be disappointed.
On second thought:
If you do ANYTHING ELSE than what occurs in Schiddygarden, then your chances of achieving awesome results should increase exponentially.
Right there is pretty good advice.
John R
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The Return of Snidely Whiplash
I don't mean to complain and whine. It's just that I'm so good at it.
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John R
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Dirge in A Miner
We could not be prouder of our spinach if they were our own children. Maybe prouder. Look how thoroughly green and upright! Look at those...
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John R
- 4 min
Stick It
My father cut off the ends of two of his fingers while reaching for a stick that poked out from under the lawn mower he was pushing....
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Bad Pepper! Bad, Bad Pepper!
Blossom end rot tries to crush my naive hopes for a trouble-free harvest.
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Cabbage Whites Save Summer!
They're happy little butterflies, but maybe they have a dark side?
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Swamp Grass
Adding a raised bed for growing chilies meant confronting the swamp grass.
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John R
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Slings and Arrows
The Tree Guy tried to pin this one on me. I’m not buying it.
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John R
- 3 min
A Few Words from the Peanut Gallery
Sometimes a great notion simply doesn’t fly.
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Flickers of Hope
That burst of sound cracks open the doldrums of winter with its insistence of spring.
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Camellia, We Feel Ya
How to grow incredible camellias without even trying. At all.
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It's Going to Be a Scrumptious 2021
Having breakfast outside in the sun is one of humankind’s most rewarding experiences .
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Are Those Bulbs in My Pants?
Planting a completely whacked-out flower bed that defies common sense.
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Mutiny of the Bounty
I don’t particularly care for cabbages and radishes, but I’m a sucker for alliteration.
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Memento Mori
Along came a Latrodectus and sat down for a semi-serious chat.
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Ridin' the Wild Leon
If you don't plant Leontodon, they will come anyway.
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The Beauty Thief
A timely gift of beautiful flowers put my larcenous impulses on hold.
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Sticky Proboscises and other Sex Toys
Hummingbirds are stupidly fast, which explains a lot.
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- 4 min
The Three Amigos Throw Down
A ruthless, no-limbs-barred dustup is slowly taking place in the back yard.
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The Water Woes
Hellebores, you are woefully narcissistic and you can never get enough.
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Don't Foodle with Your Doodle
If you are inclined to low-grade entertainment, these are the bugs for you.
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The Case of the Missing Lilies
The clues: bare earth and unrequited mulch.
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Nature's Schiddiest Garden
We needed a big dose of raw nature to restore our faith.
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John R
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Wisteria Hysteria
Friends warned that wisteria was a relative of extraterrestrial xenomorphs.
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Me Ignore Plain Facts
There are gardening tenets that are so basic you couldn’t possibly ignore them. But you do.
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- 4 min
The World's Clumsiest Tree
This sad, twisted clown of a plant is just crying out for love...
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John R
- 6 min
Return of the Murdered Valerian
The toughest plant in the garden meets its match—Deb and a pair of clippers.
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The Drunk Robins Are Coming!
This annual event always creates a big kerfuffle.
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Let's K-Vetch
The Cersei of the front garden is a cunning, ruthless, and good-looking adversary.
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Bugs Buddies
Industrious creepy crawlies act as if the property is their own private domain. Well, it is.
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