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Back in our innocent pre-ChatGBT days, we were excited about how emerging technologies could help gardeners. We were on the watch for new phone apps that could help with identification of weeds, design, watering systems and more.

Those days are over. Now many gardeners simply assume that their phones have the answers to most gardening questions and problems.


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We finally got rain in Central Kentucky after a dry April and early May. Five inches! It may turn dry again. There is no telling. Feast or famine?

There was, for one weekend at least (May 22nd-24th), a feast of music and blooms not hindered by rain. The Chamber Music Society ...


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Update on cues to care: I wrote this article for the members of my townhouse co-op as we face our next spring yard inspection. Here cues to care are prioritized, because some make a huge difference and others, not so much. All the yards shown here are small.

This post is for anyone considering reducing or removing their lawn, but I’ll speak directly to...


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The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a long-distinguished history of seed selection and preservation. Before Bill Best got serious with heirloom green bean seeds, there were Native Americans who put Kentucky on the world map before there were maps: four thousand years ago.


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A – I had a big bunch of needy, gorgeous annuals and perennials sitting in plastic nursery pots in the back yard waiting further instructions. They were to be the finishing touches of our brand-new garden. After six frantic weeks of planting, having those plants in the ground would push us over the edge to a damn ne...


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