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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Big Jim McCardle Answers Your Gardening Questions!!! This week, The Renaissance Garden Guy’s very special guest, renowned gardening author and Chairman of Nebraska State A&M University’s Agriculture and Hydroponics Department, Professor James “Big Jim” McCardle, PhD, brings his 30+ years of academic expertise and hands-on horticultural experience to the […]

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Wendy’s: Portal to a Parallel World Parallel worlds exist!  For a wormhole near you, look no further than your neighborhood Wendy’s. By John G. Stamos After being skeptical my entire adult life, I’m now convinced that parallel worlds exist.  Theoretical physicists have been looking for tangible evidence of this

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Take 2 Glazed Doughnuts (and an A1C Pill) and Call Me in the Morning Overeating is fun, and it’s easy to do!  Stroke?  Heart disease?  Diabetes?  Nonsense!  Live it up, have a pill, take 2 glazed doughnuts, and call me in the morning! By John G. Stamos Inclusivity is

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The End of Summer: Redux Back in early September of 2021, I clogged your device screens with hundreds of photos from my garden in a feature called “Spring and Summer’s Path Through My Garden.”  It was an image-laden review published per multiple requests from RGG readers and subscribers looking

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Haiku Hijinks and Utter Stupidity Not only is corrupting a venerable written art form reprehensible, it’s really stupid.  Sounds exactly like something I would do. By John G. Stamos I am an idiot… One particularly cold and snowy day in early March last year, I was out in my

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Why Start a Blog? Why start a blog?  What are the benefits?  How much work is involved?  How do I do it?  Where do I start?  Lots of questions, I know.  I’ll give you the answers to what I consider some of the most important ones right here. By