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Farmers Defense: FirstLook / FirstUse

October 14, 2023 // 0 Comments

Tired of getting scratched up, burned up, or bitten up while working in the garden? The folks at Farmers Defense has a solution for all that and more. This is a bag of [...]

Voynich Manuscript

October 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

A fifteenth-century codex (“A manuscript volume, complete or fragmentary, as of a classic work or the sacred Scriptures”), discovered in 1912 by rare books dealer [...]

RDG: Clover Patching W1-W4 Update

July 14, 2023 // 0 Comments

It has been a month since we first seeded the various sections and bald patches in the RainyDayGarden (RDG) with microclover and drought resistant grass/clover mix! This [...]

RDG: More clover patches

July 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

We noticed at the beginning of Spring there were sections of the RDG (lawn) lawn needed some TLC. Having tried different grass seeds in the past with limited reward, we [...]

RDG: Patching the lawn…with clover

June 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

We stopped using weed killer about a decade ago, and the RainyDayGarden is better for it. Sure, we get the occasional unwanted visitor taking up residence in spots we would [...]

RDG Spring 2022 Summary

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

The RainyDayGarden is pretty established at this point, and much to the delight of the interns, the work required to maintain it leans mainly toward trimming, pruning, and [...]

RDG Spring 2021 Summary

July 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

It surprised us to realize that is has been a few years since we updated readers on the status of the RainyDayGarden.  While the interns have been moving things about, [...]

Lynx Edicions: All the Birds of the World

January 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

All the Birds of the World We have looked at books from Lynx Edicions before and every volume has exceeded expectations. So while the title of this one was a pretty bold [...]

Jade plants bloom; yes, they do

December 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

The common jade plant (Crassula ovata) is native to South Africa and Mozambique, but has made its home in practically every household on the planet. The RainyDayGarden crew [...]

Planters’ Choice: Bonsai Update

September 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Friends of RainyDayMagazine gave us a bonsai kit for Christmas. We sowed them (the bonsai, not the friends) on New Year’s Day and will be chronicling our bonsai [...]
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