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Eco-gardening is at its best in The Monday Garden
May 25, 2003, issue 61

An annual garden must be started over each May and only looks really good July to September. Instead, why not have a garden which is beautiful year-round and better for the environment?

The Monday Garden, Eco-gardening at its best

July 3, 2005, Issue 171

Great American Gardeners (“GAG’s”) are lazy; they do not, in the garden, do “work for work’s sake”. Now that summer’s official here, the best thing that a “Great American Gardener” can do for the garden and lawn is smell the flowers, keep fresh water in the bird bath, and make sure to feed the rabbits, squirrels, and other critters.

PICTURE: Long Island Sound is a national treasure but easily polluted by garden, lawn, and driveway run-off. Nearly 21 million people (14% of the USA population) live within 50 miles of the Sound -- close enough to literally throw their garbage in it. Once, the whole Sound nearly died; lobsters and crabs were climbing people’s boats desperately trying to get the oxygen stolen from the water by an algae over-bloom die off. If you are a patriot who lives by the sea, an “I-only-use-mulch” garden is the only way to go, I think. View from Waterside, Stamford CT, June 2005. Note the Brandt geese and other water fowl. This particular cove is a horseshoe crab nesting ground; the area probably has been a nesting site since the Sound was created at the end of the last Ice Age.

Great American Gardeners know that “eco-lazy” is best for themselves, their kids, the garden and the planet. So on July 4, ask yourself if you are a Great American Gardener. Are you ready to stand up for what truly counts in American sub/urban life? If so, here’s a list of things that you can skip this summer.