Many of you know I keep a listing of garden blogs on this site. For some of you, it was how you found me. It’s an indication of how our little corner of the blogging world has grown that two more blog directories specifically devoted to gardening blogs have shown up.
Entries from January 2007
New Garden Blog Directories: Meet My Competition
January 30th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 9 Comments
Categories: Recommended Links · Blogging Art and Practice
Keywords: directory · garden blog
Teaming with Microbes: Take 2
January 28th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 11 Comments
Oh, dear–I’m afraid I didn’t do a very good job reviewing this book, because people are getting the wrong impression. I was in the midst of writing a very long comment to rectify the situation, and decided it would make a better post instead.
Categories: Book reviews
Keywords: bacteria · compost · compost tea · environment · fungi · integrated pest management · lawns · microbes · mulch · nitrogen · soil
Rundy publishes his first book
January 28th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
Faithful readers of this blog will remember Rundy’s struggles with the brush mower, his love of fruit trees, and his fist-shaking frustration with animal pests. Those of you who are relatively new to this blog can read all his entries here. I am happy to tell you that Rundy’s first work of fiction, The Stuttering […]
Categories: About this site · Recommended Links · Fruit
Keywords: contributors
Teaming with Microbes: Book Review
January 27th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 6 Comments
It probably would have taken me a lot longer to get around to reading Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web if Carol hadn’t suggested it for the Garden Blogger’s Book Club. Partly because I would normally wait until my library got a copy, instead of buying it brand new. Partly […]
Categories: Book reviews
Keywords: garden bloggers book club · jeff lowenfels · soil food web
Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 4
January 21st, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
In part 3 I showed how to put the finishing touches on a spreadsheet that calculated the potential cost of a plant order in progress. But because of its tabular format, a spreadsheet is often used in situations where a lot of information needs to be organized, even if no calculations are made. Below are […]
Categories: Wishlist · Recommended Links · Seeds and Seed Starting · Acquisitions · Design · How-to · Series · Spreadsheets in Gardening
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Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 3
January 20th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 1 Comment
In our last part we had finished entering data and were getting ready to sum up. Actually it’s best to create this autosumming Subtotal before you enter much data. That way, you have a good idea how much your wishlist is costing you as you go along.
Creating a Subtotal
The first thing you need to do […]
Categories: Wishlist · Acquisitions · How-to · Series · Spreadsheets in Gardening
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Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 2
January 17th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 4 Comments
In part 1 we logged into Google Spreadsheets and got things set up. Now let’s get this thing to do some work for us.
Creating the Formula
We’re going to teach this worksheet to multiply the price of a plant by the number of plants we want to give us the total price. The end result will […]
Categories: Wishlist · Seeds and Seed Starting · How-to · Series · Spreadsheets in Gardening
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