WELCOME TO THE SHODDY GARDENER

It's *kind of* time to start seeds! I honestly might be jumping the gun a little bit here in mid-January, but COVID has been running...

It starts in early December. The anticipation that at any time now, you might open your mailbox and find it. That exciting, colorful...

2021 was my first somewhat *serious* gardening season. I bought seeds, grew them to seedlings and then replanted them in my outdoor...

Happy (almost) springtime! Things have been a little hectic for me lately as I try to balance my weekly commitments with the start of the...

I move to a new apartment in just a few months and I've thought a lot about how I want the new place to look. Right now, I don't really...

What a crap year. Seriously. I doubt that anybody who lives through 2020 will have much good to say about it in future years. Sure, we've...

It seems like these days it's hard to have a conversation without talking about the virus or the many aspects of how it is impacting our...

If you live in an apartment, like me, it can be hard to start gardening for lack of space, light limits and cleanliness. But that doesn't...

Dear Person Feeling Alone, First, I want you to know that you are not alone. You might feel alone, of course, but there are millions of...

Well, we're about...(checks watch)...5 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and if you're anything like me, you're just about dying of boredom