Cold Climate Gardening

I was one of several garden bloggers inteviewed by Doug Green for an article on garden blogging for The American Gardener, which is published by the American Horticultural Society. I thought the article was a good overview for beginners on the topic, not going too deeply into the technology behind blogging but maintaining accuracy.

Really, you shouldn’t need to know any more about how blogging works in order to blog, than you need to know how a car works in order to drive it. I don’t think we’re quite there yet, though I’m trying to do my part.

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This photo has nothing to do with the post below. Just thought I’d share the view from my porch today. It’s probably at its peak right now and will be gone within a week.Just learned from Jessica Walliser that on tomorrow’s edition of ‘The Organic Gardeners’ they will be talking about ColdClimateGardening.com. Every week they have a segment called ‘The Go-To List’ where they highlight companies or informational sources for gardening that they find personally useful. Unfortunately, unless you have Sirius Satellite Radio, there is no way for you to listen to it. If …

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Welcome to the Fifth Anniversary Celebration of Cold Climate Gardening. Last week our readers were invited to submit questions, which I have answered here. I hope you are entertained and enlightened. Comments, as always, are encouraged.
Stuart: How do you see the next 5 years panning out, after the hiatus that is? What has been the biggest change that you’ve noticed over the past 5 years?–Well, Stuart, the biggest change in the past 5 years has been there are a lot more gardening blogs, as I’m sure you’re aware. Once upon a time, the garden blog community was compared to a lunch room. Now it’s more like a small town. You are intimate with your own circle, and you may know the leading figures of the community, but you just can’t know everyone. In the next five years for myself, I would like to help the people who still find the technology an obstacle and a barrier get more comfortable with blogging.

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We interrupt this hiatus for an important message: on August 27th Cold Climate Gardening will turn five years old, and you’re invited to help celebrate. Last year, I interviewed several garden blog pioneers. This year, you get to interview me. Ask your questions in the comment section below, and I will answer your questions on the anniversary.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I still have a few lesson plans to work on. See you on the 27th!

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School is right around the corner, and as Chief Administrator and Principal Instructor for the Purdyville Homeschooling Academy, I’ve got a lot of lesson planning and general preparation to do. Despite the fact that I have over a dozen blog posts sitting in my Drafts folder, I’m going to take a little break and get ready for school. Comments are always welcome and since other readers subscribe to them, you’ll still have an audience even if I can’t respond myself (but I might).

I’ll be back as soon as I can . . .

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Hello to the members of the Connecticut Horticultural Society who have come to check Cold Climate Gardening out after reading my essay, Defiant Gardening, in their May newsletter.

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Thank you one and all for nominating this blog for the Best Design of a Garden Blog category in the first annual Mouse & Trowel Awards. I confess I’ve always been a bit miffed at how garden blogs were so neglected in general blog awards, and I’m glad Colleen has taken the initiative and developed some awards we garden bloggers can call our own.

Voting is now open and will continue to May 11. Note: you don’t have to have a garden blog yourself to vote.

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