Garden Gate is with it!

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I was at Syndic8 looking for any gardening feeds I might have missed, and discovered that Garden Gate magazine has a weblog! Way to go! It looks good, too. Regrettably, it seems to be only for their tips, which I was already getting as an RSS feed. But they get five gold stars for being a progressive provider of gardening web content. I wish all the gardening magazines would follow suit, and provide at least some, if not all, of their web content as an RSS feed.

Sooner or later, everyone rides a hobby horse. I guess this (RSS feeds for everyone) is mine.

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

In the end, this may be the most important thing about frost: Frost slows us down. In spring, it tempers our eagerness. In fall, it brings closure and rest. In our gotta-go world–where every nanosecond seems to count–slowness can be a great gift. So rather than see Jack Frost as an adversary, you could choose to greet him as a friend.

~Philip Harnden in A Gardener’s Guide to Frost: Outwit the Weather and Extend the Spring and Fall Seasons

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Kathy February 27, 2004, 12:48 pm

The article doesn’t say much. But I think it would be useful to use in convincing commercial sites to give RSS a try, just because of the name recognition Forbes provides.

Chan S. February 25, 2004, 2:37 pm

You’re ahead of the curve, as usual. See Forbes magazine explain RSS to the masses, here (http://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2004/02/23/cx_ah_0223tentech.html).