Garden Musings

ProfessorRoush tries to be a good gardener, and a gracious host of garden fauna, but once in a while he is incredibly oblivious to the obvio...

I just keep telling myself that there are many situations that could be worse than trying to keep a garden alive in Kansas in July.  We'...

Can ProfessorRoush get a "Hallelujah" from the chorus, please?  Just this week, the National Weather Service (or whatever organiza...

Wednesday morning I walked through my garden with trepidation, fearful that at any minute I would slip and fall into one of the drought-crea...

I tell you, it's enough to give a guy a complex.  ProfessorRoush spent the early summer thinking that the two-year drought had eased, on...

I laid awake all night and listened to the rain.  I listened as the dry raspy voice of the parched ground was stilled under a steady gentle ...

The dry time has come, my friends, when a gardener's principles of xeriscaping and letting plants fend for themselves has smashed into t...

News reports have now made it official; July 2012 was the hottest July on record in North America.  I don't know about you, the broader...

Last weekend I was puttering around the garden, doing all the usual things, pulling weeds, deadheading roses, sobbing over some drought-stri...

Oops, I made a slight gardening error by taking a short four-day vacation this week.  We've had higher than normal temperatures for a m...