January 2007

New Garden Blog Directories: Meet My Competition

by Kathy Purdy on January 30, 2007

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
Mitchell Burgess

Teaming with Microbes: Take 2

by Kathy Purdy on January 28, 2007

A garden raised from seed is a garden raised in the heart, the gardener growing along with the garden.
Jane Bedinger

Rundy publishes his first book

by Kathy Purdy on January 28, 2007

Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.
Michael Pollan, Second Nature

Teaming with Microbes: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on January 27, 2007

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood

Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 4

by Kathy Purdy on January 21, 2007

Watering, though apparently easy, is difficult to do properly. Ensuring the roots are neither drying nor drowning is an underappreciated art.
Jeff Gillman, The Truth About Garden Remedies

Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 3

by Kathy Purdy on January 20, 2007

For the uninitiated, the reality of what it takes to create and maintain a great-looking garden appears to be an endless string of tiresome tasks and dirty jobs. But true gardeners know that the real fun of gardening in in the process--the planning, the planting, the nurturing, and the learning.
Nancy Ondra, in The Perennial Care Manual

Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 2

by Kathy Purdy on January 17, 2007

He who leaves no stone unturned will have a sore back.
Sid Fleischman

Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 1

by Kathy Purdy on January 16, 2007

Men with trucks do not see new plantings when reversing or unloading, so trees must wait [to be planted] until all hard landscaping is done.
Marylyn Abbott

We have a winner!

by Kathy Purdy on January 10, 2007

Watering, though apparently easy, is difficult to do properly. Ensuring the roots are neither drying nor drowning is an underappreciated art.
Jeff Gillman, The Truth About Garden Remedies

Seed info

by Craig Levy on January 9, 2007

The two most mysterious aspects of clematis are, How is the word pronounced? and, What is its plural form? Once these questions are answered, growing the plants is plain sailing.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

Rethinking Your Vegetable Garden

by Kathy Purdy on January 7, 2007

Speaking of extreme environments, garden-making in Greenland is said by gardeners there to require tamaviaartumik, Greenlandic for passion, ambition, and commitment.
Constance Casey in Slate (18 Apr 2008)

Gardening catalog deals and deadlines for 2007

by Kathy Purdy on January 5, 2007

Marcescence is the retention of dead plant organs that normally are shed. It is most obvious in deciduous trees that retain leaves through the winter. Several trees normally have marcescent leaves such as oak (Quercus), beech (Fagus) and hornbeam (Carpinus).
Wikipedia

What kind of a seed buyer are you?

by Kathy Purdy on January 2, 2007

Gardening at first felt like a natural pleasure, and then it became a necessary one.
Laurie Lisle

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