Today's Features

When I was in junior high, I ran track.
My event was running the one-mile race.

* Happy New Year to all. The volunteer staff at the Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum, the Rohs Theatre on Walnut Street, welcomes you. Come see your community’s museum, Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring your family, holiday guests, the children, folks of all ages. You’ll be amazed at the displays. Many have worked for 20 years to preserve and share our local history.
* Unknown. “The new year lies before you like a spotless tract of snow. Be careful how you tread on it for every mark will show.”

We all have bad habits.  Some people chew their fingernails; others mow their grass too short in the summer.
You can guess which one bugs me the most.
The odd thing about many of the worst bad habits in the garden is that they have become so commonplace.  The worst offenses are repeated everywhere to the extent that gardeners think they are the rule.
Over-mulching, for example, has been an epidemic problem for many years despite the fact that research spells out trouble for our plants when we bury their roots under a foot of hardwood mulch.