Okay. So I am not particularly gifted in the green thumb department. This might partially stem from growing up in the North, where the entire western half of North Dakota contained some of the least-fertile soil you can possibly imagine. The soil was gray, dry clay, tundra-like in all aspects. In fact, as a kid I was completely puzzled by all those erroneous library books I read where children like me would talk about how soil was black. It was not, either! And all my schoolwork said this, too. (I finally made my peace with it all by deciding that [...] Read more »