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Eat Your Lawn
Garden Update Two years ago this spring, I moved into a house with a tidy front yard. Clipped hedges outlined a small lawn intersected by a tulip-skirted walk. Though pretty in the spring sunshine, it...
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How does your garden grow?
Each year when springtime rolls around I think about putting in a garden, but somehow every year I find myself so busy that my garden doesn’t materialize. This spring was no exception, but rather than...
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The Joys of Summer
I have vacation on the brain, but I don’t leave for a week. At this rate, it’s going to be very hard to get any work done. So this post is dedicated to all the things I love about summer. It’s the...
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Spring Fever!
Yesterday The New York Times published a lovely editorial praising the robin as the harbinger of spring. The editors wrote: Somehow the robin stands for all the birds migrating now, the great V’s of...
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One Andrea Grows, Another Cooks
Andrea Bellamy raises enticing edibles on her balcony and in a community garden in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her credentials include a certificate in garden design from the University of B.C., and...
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Stuff We’re Enjoying: Early Spring Edition
Summer weather arrived in Pittsburgh this past week, dramatically muscling spring weather out of the way with a flourish, flipping its ponytail over its shoulder and flopping down on a beach towel with...
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Get Out There and Garden!
April is National Gardening Month. So to inspire you to get into your yard and start growing, or even just to give you some ideas of where to start, the library has these books to guide you: How to...
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How Green is Your Thumb?
…and may we borrow it? Image via http://www.etsy.com/people/daisychestnut This summer, nine of the CLP branches (Carrick, Homewood, Knoxville, Lawrenceville, Mt. Washington, Sheraden, Squirrel Hill,...
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Confessions of a Wanna-Be Doomsday Prepper
You wouldn’t think, to look at me, that I worry about disasters as much as I do. I seem normal enough, I don’t belong to any organizations (religious OR political) that believe The End is Near, I...
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It’s Gardening Thyme!
Thanks to another generous grant from the Mary Jane Berger Memorial Foundation, twelve Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh locations will be growing community gardens this year. Several locations are doing...
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Bugs
I’ve been on a waiting list for a plot at a community garden for some time, and last week learned that a plot was available. Since it’s gone untended all year, that means a lot more clearing out than...
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I Resolve… to Swap Seeds!
In late 2013, I found myself drunk with possibility. So long, stinky 2013! It’s time for a new year! A new life! I concocted about 100 new year’s resolutions. Start rock climbing! Paddle...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
After this long, frigid winter, I think most of us are pretty excited about the warmer weather. I’ve been happy to see early springtime flowers starting to bloom, and daffodil greenery poking up...
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Helping Hands in CLP-Sheraden’s Garden
I’m not a gardener. Not even close. Oh, I pretend to be. Every spring, just when we start getting a few 70 degree days, I check out some gardening books from the library. I have fantasies of growing a...
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It’s Gardening Thyme
Allentown Pop-up library program – newspaper seedling pots “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” - Margaret Atwood There are so many great quotes about springtime and...
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Slowing down
Lately I’ve been busy–I’m sure almost everyone reading this can relate. You would think that the busier I get, the more I would look to finding faster ways of doing things, but I’ve found the opposite...
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