Ann Loves Plants

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  • Top 12 To-Do List for the 2011 Growing Season

    There’s nothing I’d enjoy more than to complete the many tasks on any one of the lists floating around this house. As a recovered perfectionist, it has pained me greatly to become so physically unable to do so many simple things. But I’m not giving up—and neither should any of you—when swelling or any other…

  • To Love One’s Vegetables and Philosophy Too

    My Sicilian relatives never lived on the East Coast. They immediately headed to Oregon where they’d heard the soil was good and cities were open for business. They were truck farmers vending fruits and vegetables during the first generation, a dream that would never have been possible in Sicily. My grandfather Salvatore (aka Sam), the…