Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life

by Carol J Michel

Overview

Awarded first place in the category of Non-Fiction Books for Adult Readers, Humor from the National Federation of Press Women, 2020.

Award-winning author Carol Michel presents "Seeded and Sodded," her third book in a trifecta of clever gardening essay collections served up with a trowelful of wit and good humor. In between weeding and hoeing, Michel picked up her pen to divulge her honest thoughts on topics like "How to Make Your Garden a Humongous Success," "The Mystery of Plastic Pots," and "Helicopter Gardening," define new words like "Plantovert" and "Hortotropism," and introduce the world to the likes of Sweet Charlene Chipmunk, Purple Leaf, and the Old Woman at the Door. Both beginning and seasoned gardeners will savor these memorable musings, presented in short bites that are easy to enjoy whilst planting, pruning, and watering. Join Michel for a good thyme as she slips on her gardening clogs, ties on her wide-brimmed hat, and tills it like it is.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998697994
Publisher:	Gardenangelist Garden Communications
Publication date:	03/05/2019
Pages:	130
Sales rank:	989,258
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Carol Michel is a lifelong gardener and resident of Indiana with a bachelor's degree in horticulture production and an associate degree in computer technology, both from Purdue University. She spent over three decades working in healthcare IT while making a life for herself in her garden. Now Carol calls herself a gardenangelist and spends most of her time in her garden, sharing all things gardening with anyone who will listen. She is an avid collector of old gardening books and claims to have the largest hoe collection in the world. Carol writes about her old books, hoes, and many other gardening-related topics for Indiana Gardening magazine and her award-winning garden blog, www.maydreamsgardens.com. She is also the author of Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life (Gardenangelist Books, 2017), winner of the GWA Gold Media Award in 2018 and Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 How My Obsession Began

CHAPTER 2 How to Make Your Garden a Humongous Success

CHAPTER 3 What Percent Gardener Are You?

CHAPTER 4 Advance Scouts

CHAPTER 5 Killing Is for Weeds.

CHAPTER 6 Gardening with a GPS

CHAPTER 7 Gloriosa Vanderhort and Other Gardening Friends

CHAPTER 8 Dr. Hortfreud

CHAPTER 9 The Perfect Plant Deserves a Waltz

CHAPTER 10 The Pauli Exclusion Principle As It Relates to Gardening

CHAPTER 11 Plantoverts

CHAPTER 12 Gardeners? Superstitious?.

CHAPTER 13 Hortotropism

CHAPTER 14 I Feel Like a Movie Star

CHAPTER 15 A Letter to My Lawn

CHAPTER 16 Society of Gardeners Aged 50 and Over

CHAPTER 17 In Search of Plants That No Longer Exist

CHAPTER 18 Pusley

CHAPTER 19 GUTS

CHAPTER 20 The Rewards of a Garden

CHAPTER 21 Garden Excellence or Garden Success?

CHAPTER 22 Failure Is on the Menu

CHAPTER 23 Garden-Colored Glasses

CHAPTER 24 Helicopter Gardening

CHAPTER 25 The Wilderness Called

CHAPTER 26 Haughtyculturist

CHAPTER 27 Chief Gardening Officer

CHAPTER 28 She Saw Me: A Chipmunk’s Tale

CHAPTER 29 Hortombobulated

CHAPTER 30 The Perfect Plant Variety Name

CHAPTER 31 The Mystery of Plastic Pots

CHAPTER 32 The Optimist and the Pessimist

CHAPTER 33 Lettuce and Thistle

CHAPTER 34 The Old Woman at the Door

CHAPTER 35 If You Want To Change Your World

CHAPTER 36 Is Gardening Worth It?