I don’t care to reinvent the wheel. I’d rather learn from other people’s mistakes. I don’t want to waste any more of my time and money than I have to. And I’d much, much rather do it right the first time. That’s why, when we moved to our current rural home, I read everything I could on gardening in a cold climate, which I knew I was gardening in, having lived through my first winter where it hit, or should I say, dropped to, 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Only problem was, more than fourteen years ago, there wasn’t much to read on the subject. I only found tidbits of information here and there, and I collected them assiduously. Things have improved since then; there are some good books on cold climate gardening now, and thanks to the internet, information in general is a lot more accessible.
That’s why I started this website: to share everything I know about cold climate gardening. Now, I’m no expert, and I will freely admit that much of the information presented here is stuff I’ve merely read somewhere else. I haven’t necessarily tried it, or grown it, myself. And the truth of the matter is, what works in one cold climate isn’t guaranteed to work in another cold climate, so even if I have tried it, and it has worked for me, it still might not work for you. And vice versa.
But at least you won’t have to reinvent the wheel.
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1 Gardora.net » ‘Cropped meadow’ after a dry summer? // Sep 13, 2006 at 1:46 am
[…] Kathleen Purdy, author of Cold Climate Gardening - a weblog about Gardening in a cold climate where the temperature drops to 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit - has advice for everyone whose garden had to suffer during the last summer. […]
2 Laura Taylor de Palomino // Sep 24, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Dear Kathy - I tried sending an e-mailt to you at “thepurdys@purdyville.com” but I got an error message. I’d love to get in touch with you again - with the right e-mail address!
Laura Taylor de Palomino
An “old” friend and housemate from SUNY Binghamton
3 Dan // Feb 6, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Hi I am originally from central NY and I am currently a gardener at the Washington National Cathedral in DC and I’m looking to come back home but I’m having a tough time finding jobs. Can you help me?
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