I have been out walking even more of late than usual. Besides exercising, I have been checking out other homeowners' plant choices and landscaping. I look for what I call pocket gardens. For me, that means a small portion of someone's yard that seems to have received a little more TLC.
In typical years we have travel plans during the spring and summer. This year, my husband was planning to walk the epic Camino de Santiago, in Spain, so I had decided 2020 was the year of the women.
As a recent Master Gardener trainee, our very first class was on Introduction to Horticulture. It is here that I learned about Binominal Classification System, meaning two names and this nomenclature contains NO COMMON NAMES.
You've all heard of the past outbreaks of e-coli in romaine lettuce and other past cases of contaminated leafy greens. The contaminants of those commercially grown leafy greens can also contaminate leafy greens you grow in your garden if you are not careful.
