Jessica Walliser's new book,Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Controlrecently published by Timber Press, turns the gardener's view of insects upside down. Suddenly, they are no longer the enemy, but allies you encourage by the way that you garden. Jessica and I had a lively email "chat" that I hope [...]
Interviews
Debra Prinzing: Seasonal + Sustainable = Slow Flowers
September 10, 2013 – Posted in: Flowers on the Brain, InterviewsWhen I reviewed Debra Prinzing's book Slow Flowers back in July, I wondered about Debra's use of the terms seasonal and sustainable. I wondered particularly about how seasonal and sustainable such flowers would be in climates much colder than Debra's moderate Pacific Northwest. Before I ever published that review, I gave Debra a chance to [...]
GardenStalking: A New Way to Browse Blogs
March 16, 2012 – Posted in: Interviews, Recommended LinksVeteran garden bloggers probably remember Garden Voices. "Back in the day"--before Twitter, before Facebook, even before Blotanical--it was the best way to find new garden blogs. Garden Voices is a blog aggregator, a website that collects--or aggregates--posts about a certain topic, so you can get an idea of what the blogosphere is saying about that [...]
Seven Year Gold: 65 Bags of It!! And one to give away
July 21, 2011 – Posted in: Interviews, Tools and EquipmentBack in February, I got an astonishing email from John Stanton: Seven Year Gold is a 100% organic fertilizer made from horse manure which has composted for over seven years! Our composting process reaches temperatures over 130 degrees so all weed seeds and pathogens are eliminated, leaving gardeners with a pure, safe and very effective [...]
Upstate Gardeners’ Journal: Read It Online for Free!
February 1, 2011 – Posted in: Interviews, Recommended LinksUpstate Gardeners' Journal, the regional gardening magazine for Upstate NY, now publishes all issues online, for free. This is terrific news for gardeners like me who don't live close enough to Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, or Ithaca to stop by a garden center and pick up a free print copy. I went to the Upstate Gardeners' [...]
Colchicum interview on Web Talk Radio
August 10, 2010 – Posted in: About this site, Colchicums, Garden Tweets, InterviewsI join Helen Yoest of Gardening With Confidence this week to talk about Colchicums on Web Talk Radio. They will be blooming in about a month, you know.
Kerry Mendez, Garden Coach
March 7, 2009 – Posted in: InterviewsAfter reading about the symposium and poking around her website, I was surprised I hadn't come across Kerry Mendez before. After all, she gardens in my state, in a similar climate. Some of her gardens are featured in Gardens Adirondack Style, which I reviewed for Horticulture in 2006. I decided I needed to know more [...]
Nan Ondra: Garden Writer and Garden Blogger
January 29, 2008 – Posted in: InterviewsNan with her two alpacas, Duncan and Daniel. Photo by Rob Cardillo, used with permission.Yesterday I reviewed Fallscaping by Stephanie Cohen and Nancy Ondra. Knowing Nan is a fellow garden blogger, I thought it would be interesting to learn more about her as a writer and gardener. This is your second book co-authored with Stephanie [...]
Jessica Walliser: Organic Gardening Advocate
December 5, 2007 – Posted in: InterviewsI met Jessica Walliser at the Garden Writer's Symposium in Oklahoma City earlier this year, and after meeting her and learning all that she was up to, I'd knew you'd want to meet her, too. When she asked me to review her book, it seemed like the perfect time to ask for an interview. How [...]
Mike Cherim of Green Methods: Ensuring that good bugs rule!
November 8, 2007 – Posted in: Interviews, Pests, Plagues, and VarmintsNew Hampshire resident Mike Cherim is in the business of putting bad bugs out of business. I first contacted Mike because he offers a very secure contact form for WordPress. I later used his theme for my Blogging Art and Practice site. Then I discovered that before he started designing websites, he sold--and continues to [...]
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