Audrey Stallsmith
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Audrey Stallsmith is author of the Thyme Will Tell gardening-related mystery series from WaterBrook Press and an e-book of humorous rural romances titled Love and Other Lunacies. A former Master Gardener, she also has been published in Woman’s World, Birds & Blooms, Writer’s Digest, etc., and has written hundreds of gardening articles for such sites as eHow, SFGate, and Dave’s Garden, as well as her own Thyme Will Tell site. Audrey earned a B.A. degree in creative writing from Houghton College and lives on a small farm in Pennsylvania where a menagerie of pets, free-ranging poultry, and occasionally escaped livestock make horticulture a challenge—but a highly enjoyable one!
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Growing a watermelon plant can be challenging since it requires plenty of space and heat in which to spread out and bask, in addition to its lengthy growing season. If yours doesn’t exten...
Q: I buy new fertilizer every spring simply because I don’t know if what’s left over from the previous year still works. Does fertilizer go bad, and if so, how long is fertilizer good for...
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