Garden Musings

Lilac 'Betsy Ross' At last, Spring has arrived in Manhattan, Kansas.  It is and was a long-awaited, miss-conceived, desiccated Sprin...

Just like that, a perfect weekend of weather, and ProfessorRoush has caught up with spring.   There's always something magical about Eas...

This is how Spring arrives in Kansas; not slowly, surreptitiously, slinking into sight, but with a sudden screeching shout of "Here I a...

Easter arrived at last, a rebirth of spirit and earth that is long overdue this year.  March came in like a lion, went out like one, and win...

Spring began in Manhattan while I was away in D.C., as I came home to this very first daffodil blooming on March 10.   We had enough weat...

ProfessorRoush did just exactly what he said in last week's blog as he skedaddled last Sunday out into a rare, warm early February.  I ...

Well, that didn't take long, did it?  The second day of 2020 and ProfessorRoush has already blogged twice!  I simply couldn't restra...

Weather report:  77ºF high today. The ground temperature is 58ºF in my vegetable garden.  Very windy in the open prairie, and partially sunn...

ProfessorRoush came home early from work yesterday, malice in his soul and arson in his heart.  I spent half last fall and winter trying to ...

I say, "at last," like they were incredibly, irresponsibly late, drowsy, dilatory delinquents holding up progress, because I'v...

I tried to warn them. I really did.  You heard me just a week or so back, right here on this blog.  "Hush little darlings" I sa...

Let this post serve as a double warning to gardeners and other fragile souls downwind from Manhattan, Kansas.   Give up hope.  I mean it.  ...