The Prickly Pear Queens Guide to Gardening

This blog is intended to be a humorous and sometimes too realistic guide to life in the garden, in the kitchen and anywhere else the Queens tend to be.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

THE SEED CATALOGUES

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Seed catalogues, or catalogs, depending on where you live, start arriving at most gardeners’ homes just about three weeks before Christmas. ...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Awesome Auger

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When you live in the land of hard clay and solid rock you are instantly drawn to things that dig holes more easily. My collection includes a...

Thursday, April 1, 2010

THE SEED CATALOGUES

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Seed catalogues, or catalogs, depending on where you live, start arriving at most gardeners’ homes just about three weeks before Christmas. ...

Friday, March 19, 2010

I AM SO PROUD

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I am the first one in my family to go to gardening school! Pooh on all their BSs, MSs and PHDs, I am now a Master Gardener in training. Yest...

Sunday, March 7, 2010

BIRDS

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I love birds and my neighbor loves squirrels – can you see the collision coming? She proudly told me last winter that she had “raised” an en...

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

My own little garden greenhouse

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I am trying something new this year. Lee bought me a contraption that looks like a giant garment bag with 4 shelves. The shelves will hold...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Pavlov Had Nothing on My Mother

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Many of us remember that Pavlov was a scientist that always fed these dogs to the sound of a buzzer. Over time the sound caused the same re...

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