Gustav Leopold Miller

The Brush-Weeder Today is the birthday of Gustav Leopold Miller, born in 1884, on this day, in Henry, Illinois. He always went by Gus. Gus’ claim to fame was the invention of the brush weeder. It was described in the Daily Times out of Davenport, Iowa in 1918: “It’s composed of two brushes– whisk brooms…

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20200101 The Daily Gardener Album Cover

Today I’m heading over at 1 o’clock to Walmart to pick up my mobile order. It has a ton of things I need to get for my student gardeners. When the kids help me out in the garden, I put them in teams of two, and I generally have 6 to 8 kids helping me…

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