The meadow is buzzing with happy honeybees … because buttercups. As the weather gets warmer every year, we hold off as long as possible to begin mowing because it takes so much time and gas. And because of COVID-19 self-quarantining measures this year, we’re trying to stretch our weekly mowings out to at least ten days. If the meadow can stand an every-other-week mowing without getting too hairy or snaky, we’ll push it out to 14 days. The upside now is that the buttercups are beautiful. Check it out:
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Dolly Sickles is an experienced gardener who’s been cultivating her green thumb for the last twenty-five years. She’s an avid practitioner of practical gardening learned through trial and error, and best practices gleaned from folks she meets in the community. She started writing about gardening in 2003 with a weekly column in The Apex Herald called The Optimistic Gardener, which ran until 2007. Her blog, Gardening Gloves, ran on WRAL.com from 2007 - 2009. Now that she's got time to focus on gardening again, she's restarting The Optimistic Gardener with The Chatham News & Record. She lives in Chatham County with her family, where she's also a novelist and an adjunct instructor in CCCC’s Creative Writing Program. View all posts by dollygardener
