Catching up

Photographs by Elspeth Young

 Though it's a month since the most recent issue of The Storybook Home Journal, Our Mutual Friend, wended its way through the US Posts, it's been way too long since we caught up posting sans that venerable institution, so here's what we hope will present a reasonably creditable reparation. We didn't have space to include Elspeth's water-colored label that we used in our own version of clearing Old John Harmon's mounds, so we send it in its easy-to-download form here for anyone's personal use--whether gardening is involved or not.  Simply click on the thumbnail for the full-sized label.

The compost bins featured in the most recent Workshops article,and pictured here, are functioning marvelously by-the-way, and we've already gotten some gorgeous, black, crumbly stuff from them to improve the soil in which we've planted the irresistible marked-down plants that keep following us home almost as dependably as fruit and vegetables from roadside market stands.

Tags: Vol. 12 No. 4, 2012, Beauty and home, Floral arrangements, Flowers and garden, Recipes by Nancy Young