I’m a regular reader of Sunset magazine, especially the gardening sections, where people show off their lush lawns and landscaped patios.
I do as little gardening as humanly possible myself. In fact, reading the gardening section in Sunset might be as close as I get to regular yard work.
I always give a careful reading to the Checklist page, which shows which garden activities one should accomplish each month if one lives here in Redding, or as it’s known on Checklist: “Sunset Climate Zone Valley (7-9).” Not that I intend to do anything on the Checklist, you understand. I just read to keep up.
In the January Checklist, we have headlines such as Start bare-root berries, Decorate with moth orchids, Control large vines and Plant hellebores. If you do not know what some of those words mean, you are not alone, my friend.
My favorite headline: Discourage insect eggs and disease spores.
I suppose you tell them they’ll never amount to anything, that there’s no future in disease sporing, or that they’ll never be the insect eggs that their fathers were.
None of these headlines measure up to my favorite from the December Checklist, however: Set out holiday bloomers.
Finally, one I could do! But as soon as I set them out, somebody stole my boxers with the reindeer on them. Har.
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