Garden Notes #1 May 2018

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. - Margaret Atwood 

I was out in the garden today for the first time in bare arms. I am Ginger so I got a mild sunburn in about 20 minutes. I pruned the fig trees. We had a very cold Winter and I thought they were frozen. Figs are sprouting at their base. I removed the branches that were frozen.

I surveyed the damage to order. Order? Hah! The Birds eat Poison Ivy berries and defecate on my garden in flight. I have lots of new little Poison Ivy vines everywhere. The same for baby Mulberry trees.

The Squirrels who live in the Chinese Nut Trees ate a baby Hosta I planted. We have lots of wildlife In Philadelphia. Perhaps some marauding child hosta-napped because it was in a pot out front. God bless their evil little hearts. I love them.

Posters brought to you years ago by the United States Government, the Works Progress Administration, and American Graphic Artists. We need a Civilian Service Corps again in my humble opinion. When I come back from having some more coffee I will post a link to their source. And then I will write about some flowers that reseed themselves and take over like weeds. Especially if you mulch garden.

Bookies ... of the Library Kind

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I hoard books. I have entirely too many of them. And I can rarely part with any one of them.

I found a site about books that I am hereby recommending BOOKRIOT.

What sold me on the site enough to subscribe and send you there was an article on literary gifts. Click the picture to go there. I have a daughter who reads. Oh how she reads. Guess what she is getting for Christmas.

The second attribute that sold me on the site was an article about cookbooks as historical and sociological sources. I love it when I find a fellow traveler.

E. H. Kern writes:

At my parents’ house, in the room where the book scorpions live, there is a cookbook from 1886. The title is Cookbook for Housekeepers. A Manual to the Current Practices of Fine Cooking and Everything That They Include. This cookbook was first published in 1822 and by 1886 it had been printed in fifteen editions.

The fact that Cookbook for Housekeepers exists tells the story of the nineteenth-century European class system. The book is not intended for the lady of the house, but for the cook working in her kitchen with a kitchen staff. 

And then I found my way to this Poster just googling 'literary gifts.' Bless my google finger. I have to have one. You can find a poster you love HERE. I have no monetary interest in these recommendations, Bookies. Enjoy.

World Food Day Poster Contest 2013

You can see more World Food Day Posters on their Facebook Page. And you can vote for your favorite young artist there. The posters below are my choices. Maybe you have a young artist at home who would like to enter their work in the contest for 2014? Enjoy.