10 Neat Things Archives

Turkeys

1. Which came first? Was the bird named after the country or the country after the bird? The answer is

1. They’re not really blue, you know. Blue jays look blue. You’d swear they are blue, a very striking, and

1. Sex and the single pumpkin. Pumpkins are monoecious. A single plant will have both male and female flowers. Female

1. Best bug. For overall best bug performance in the garden, the award goes to the humble ladybug. This pretty

1. Leaf it be. We used to spend backbreaking hours raking leaves off our lawns in fall, piling them into

1. The lungs of the world. Trees produce oxygen in exchange for carbon dioxide. A large tree puts out enough

1. Ground huggers, skyscrapers. Weeds are plants with an indomitable will to live – they are tough and strong and

1. Clingstone or freestone. When you eat a peach and the flesh comes neatly away from the pit, that is

1. The roots don’t reach to China. Many tree planting failures can be traced to digging the planting hole too

Eyes 1. Those eyes have seen a lot of… Most spiders have eight eyes, and they see a lot. In