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Seven Years Blogging

August 27, 2009

Seven years ago today, I wrote my first blog post: My Goals for Cold Climate Gardening

I’ve been following with interest the debate that Pam at Digging started and which Mr. BrownThumb responded to. When I first started blogging back in 2002, you were lucky to find business people who knew what blogging was, and the idea that they would find enough value in your blogging about their product to give [...]

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Prizewinners and plant names revealed

September 10, 2008

The winners of the Plant Identification Contest have been chosen.
Two commenters each won a hand tool
I know you want to know if you’ve won, so let’s get that out of the way first. I used a random number generator to pick the names for the two hand tools. The comments are numbered, and I “unapproved” [...]

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Quiz and Prizes! Celebrating six years of garden blogging

September 5, 2008

Yes, I’ve been blogging here for six years, and this is my 800th post! I thought this year I’d throw you a challenge. I’ve got four plants that I bet you can’t identify. I’m going to let you have fun trying, but I want to keep it interesting. The two prizes below will be awarded [...]

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Cold Climate Gardening: Fifth Anniversary Interview

August 27, 2007

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 [...]

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Thank you for the Mouse & Trowel nomination

April 15, 2007

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 [...]

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Northern Gardener Magazine praises Cold Climate Gardening

April 13, 2007

Look at the hardiness map for Minnesota and you will see that the whole state is in zone 4 or colder. The Minnesota State Horticultural Society, which publishes Northern Gardener Magazine, is devoted to helping northern gardeners. If you join the society, besides the magazine you will get borrowing privileges at the society’s library (they [...]

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A Tour of Cold Climate Gardening: What Changed on This Website and Why

March 4, 2007

Boredom isn’t enough to motivate me to redecorate my walls or my website
“Why are you changing your design?” some of my children asked, as I was making preparations for the Big Day. I could have said, for the same reason many people re-paint their walls or buy a new dress: tired of the same old [...]

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Books, Books, and More Books: Introducing the Cold Climate Gardening virtual bookstore

December 4, 2006

You may have noticed I have been writing a lot of book reviews lately. There is a good reason for that. I have been spiffing up my Amazon store. For those of you who don’t keep up on these things (and why should you?), Amazon has given its associates the opportunity to create virtual stores [...]

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Garden Blog Pioneers Look Back–and Forward

August 27, 2006

Dogs have dog-years, and the internet has internet-years. Four years on the internet is a long time, and as of today, that’s how long I’ve been blogging. I thought I would ask those gardeners who’ve been blogging longer than I have how they got started, and where they think this whole garden blogging business is [...]

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Cold Climate Gardening hiatus coincides with garden blog explosion

July 24, 2006

Excuses, excuses. Here they all are:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a short growing season makes for a very hectic spring. I am a victim of this no more and no less than any other short season gardener.
The birthday season. Others drop out during the holiday season, but here in Purdyville we celebrate 9 [...]

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One Year Ago Today: Cold Climate Gardening’s transition to a website now complete

April 5, 2006

No, it’s not my blogiversary. That’s August 27, 2002. But one year ago today, I switched from an old, outdated version of Movable Type to WordPress. Along with the change to the inner workings of the website came a whole new look–and a whole lot of work. WordPress gave me the flexibility to integrate the [...]

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Now I am an expert: Kathy Purdy quoted in AP article

January 25, 2006

I’m an expert, that is, if being quoted in the newspaper makes you an expert. Dean Fosdick writes regularly on gardening topics for the Associated Press, and contacted me for information on gardening blogs and other uses of the computer in gardening. He told me it would run around February 1st, but I just discovered [...]

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