What a Weekend in Store

We're in for a great weekend. Plenty of sunshine and highs well into the 70s if not some 80s, especially by Sunday. After the last week of cloudy, cool and sometimes wet weather, this weekend will be glorious.

As for gardening, north and west of town, hearty plants should be fine, but many people wait until after Mothers' Day to plant the tender stuff. From DC and points South and East, it's probably OK to go ahead. I'm hoping to get a tree and maybe a few bushes in the ground on Sunday and I will buy some all natural Holly-Tone for my shrubs.

I've really been on an environmental kick lately. I don't consider myself a "tree-hugger", but I drive a Honda Civic, I have mainly compact fluorescent bulbs in my house and I've been going out of my way to buy organic fertilizer. We've been food label readers in my house for as long as I can remember. I even have en energy efficient front loading washing machine.

This morning I was at an organic General Store in Clarksburg, MD called Green Earth Goods. I like what these people are doing. They aren’t just selling organic and all natural items, but they are making a big effort to use locally produced and grown items. That means that mom and pop farms get more business and it takes less fuel and creates less pollution to transport those goods to the store.

I'm just one guy, and this is just one store, but this is how change happens.

Kudos to the Home Depot...they are giving away 1 million compact fluorescent bulbs on Sunday, April 22, in honor of Earth Day. Good for them.