(Some earth I recently sprawled on to appreciate earth more.)

This year I’ve been getting much braver about botany. I am on a one woman mission to increase foliage and especially food producing foliage in and near my house. I am not against feeding and supporting the species who would like to keep my foliage free of other species who would gobble down my foliage either. Doing some reasearch on that. Did you know marigolds discourage root rot when surrounding other plants? Huh.

Anyway, when it comes to recognizing “earth day” I can’t pick some namby pamby activity that has no connection with anything that interests me. This year it has to be plant related. I mean, I know earth day is always pretty much plant related or else we’d call it moon day . What I meant was, in the past we’ve picked up trash and planted flowers and sometimes cut down buckthorn from forest preserves. But this year I want more dirt involved. That is why I proudly support newspaper planting pots. Got the idea from an earth day thing I went to this past weekend. It is great for any group or kid thing. All you need is some newspaper, a bunch of seeds and some dirt, then you can send them home with a plant in the making. Best of all , use the newspaper bags to wrap the whole thing up in to make a greenhouse. So, consider it a recycling project as well as a gardening job.

Oh, a Chicago earthy list can be found here.