Doug Green's Garden
Busy week of holidays, building docks for the boats (finally after 6 years of being here) cleaning up after a massive video shoot and having a good time with friends. Ever notice how you get sick as soon as you think about going back to work and how all those projects you really wanted to get to on your desk never seem to get done? ;-)

I'm still semi-retired but I've just been hired full time to be a dock-sitter. Having built a dock, I now have to mind it and the only way to do this is to sit on the silly thing and read. You have to be there just in case it decides to wander off y'know. :-)

But back to weeding (how does that grass grow so fast?) and answering some of your questions from a few weeks ago.

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New Articles Based On Your Questions. (please see the note below about being fair to all readers)


Why is my neighbour's garden better than mine? Here's how I beat all my neighbours this year with my vegetable garden. Simple tricks you can do yourself. Now.


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For those readers who are Canadian

I got a reminder from a reader who asked what I was doing about the newly introduced anti-spam legislation from Canada.

I already run on a strict anti-spam system because my mailing provider is one of the biggest (AWeber if you're interested) and insists on clean lists. I've always run under this system as some of you who've asked me to manually add people can attest (I won't but I'll write you a nice letter telling you why it's considered spam to do this.) :-) You already have to "double-click" (signup and then confirm your email address) to get onto my list.

And - there's *always* an unsubscribe button on the bottom of every newsletter and website update for you to get off the list or change your email address.

And - just to make life interesting, I haven't a clue who's American on this list and who's Canadian or from the UK, China, Russia, South Africa, Australia etc. etc. It goes out worldwide.

So in answer to the question about the new Canadian legislation - not doing anything.

This newsletter already meets all conditions of anti-spam legislation.


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A SMALL DETAIL ABOUT QUESTIONS TO BE FAIR TO ALL READERS

Every few months I ask if you have any seasonal questions. You respond. I try my best to answer the most common ones in a video or in an article. I get quite a few and this time there's about 20 that look like I should try to answer.

But between requests, I don't normally add them to the queue or the early ones get buried and it's not fair to those who respond to the call.

So please wait for that email - it will come and I will do my best to get the most common ones done.

I think that's a fair way to handle it?

p.s. do try a search on my websites before you ask - the last request gathered a ton of questions I'd already answered.

p.p.s. I respond on the commenting section on specific plants (at the bottom of most pages) although (at the time of writing) the darn Facebook commenting system seems to be wonky and I can't tell what page you're on.