By George! - A Blog!

Driving along the streets of Tucson in summer and seeing the awful treatment done to our palm trees makes me want to get on my “soapbox” again.
Energetic, but unskilled, tree trimmers can quickly turn a beautiful palm into a distressed object.  I think their philosophy must be that the more leaves they take off the more […]

There are two kinds of gardeners–those that save their own seed for planting, and those that prefer to buy packets of seed from the nurseries. There are good things to say about both points of view.
Seed packets usually are the latest in variety development. However, although an “All American” variety may be the […]

The summer rainy season is fickle at best and teasing at worst.  Maybe there’s an extreme “worst” when a locality gets more rain that it needs but more often than not we let our plants stop growing in between showers because we think its going to rain —and it doesn’t.
We look at the massive white […]

Many of us like to save the seed from a good fruit that we’ve bought at a market or–dare it be mentioned–stolen from someone else’s tree.
The big question is whether it’s worth it or not.  Fruit from a seed may take as long as six years before finding  out whether an orange seed gives us good […]

Last week the streets were runing water and most of us thought “What a waste!”.  Others might have thought only of the difficulty of getting home, and some impetuous drivers drove round the barricades and got themselves in deep water.  Serves them right, I thought.
We can’t do much about street water, it comes from commercial […]