12-12-12, Our thoughts turn to fertilizer

My beautiful compost in my red wheelbarrow.

It is December 12, 2012 and our thoughts turn to fertilizer, as they really should.

One year ago, I looked forward to today and decided that we should proclaim it International Fertilizer Day.

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And now the day has arrived!

 If you are a gardener who has read much about gardening through the years, you probably recognize that 12-12-12, "

Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Seventh Secret

Earlier this summer, my sister called to tell me that they while cleaning out the attic, they found an old box labeled “gardening stuff”.

“Would you like to come over and take a peak inside to see if there is anything in there that you want?”

She barely had a chance to finish asking me before I jumped into my car and headed to her house, the very house we all had grown up in. “What could be