Garden Musings

03/18/2025 As a not-so-fortunate example of the highs and lows of gardening in Kansas, ProfessorRoush will live up to his blogging pseudonym...

 Our recent week-long warm spell of 60F-75F converted what I anticipated as a delayed Spring and a to-be-continued uniformly bland landscape...

My, my.  Already beginning the third month of the year and ProfessorRoush has not, until today, touched a single finger to keyboard on behal...

These August and September days in Kansas are what ProfessorRoush has always referred to as the "doldrums."   The hot, dreary, dro...

The 8 days of 100ºF+ heat we just had were not kind to ProfessorRoush's garden, drying the yard, crisping young plants with adolescent r...

(fair warning;  long and lots of pictures and links to previous blogs) If there is a Hell, ProfessorRoush is convinced that it is populated ...

It is, in fact, still a world where miracles can occur, as Spring has finally begun here in the Kansas Flint Hills.   A very late, dry, and ...

One secret of ProfessorRoush's garden is that there is an orchard, a decrepit excuse for an orchard anyway, that I'm not very proud ...

'Cosmic Struggle' early morning ProfessorRoush had grandiose plans, a year back, to celebrate the 1000th published entry of this blo...