Lest you get the impression that My Earth Garden HQ is some sort of Eden or Zen palace, I just want to tell you that I am sitting here at 2:00 a.m. in my underwear watching an episode of “The Sopranos†and chain smoking. First one who gives me a lecture gets a nice warm [...]
Sometimes I sit back in amazement at just how lucky I am. I am living what by all accounts would be a comfortable life, limited only by a lack of spendable funds here and there but enjoyable and happy regardless of my financial state of affairs. I learned yesterday that I was declared the winner [...]
A Note from Michael: This post was originally made several weeks ago on an older website that I have since abandoned in favor of this one. I am reposting it here because it has been one of the most popular things I have written in a long time, and I wanted it to have a [...]
Another day, another tornado warning. Thankfully there was some advanced warning of the near-monsoon and high winds so I was able to move my precious container-bound vegetable plants into the basement or otherwise protect them from the onslaught. The storms have passed and now all is reasonably quiet at MEG HQ, save for the ever-present [...]
The weather has been more that cooperative for a few days here at Earth Garden Central, and now that the writing deadlines I was working under are a thing of the past thanks to a late night at the computer, I can finally get to some outdoor tasks that I’d been unwillingly putting off recently. [...]
I have come to the conclusion that the likelihood of rain is in direct proportion to whether or not I watered my plants on any given day. No watering by me, the weather is clear as a bell. Sure as the world, as soon as I fill the watering can and have my nightly chat [...]
It has been years in the making, but I am absolutely giddy to introduce my new website, My Earth Garden. My name is Michael Nolan and I am a freelance writer and avid gardener. After years of writing on gardening and self-reliance for my clients, I finally decided to create this website – a dream [...]
