Horticulture Magazine has jumped on the blogging bandwagon. Managing Editor Meghan Lynch and Executive Editor Sara Begg are both giving it a whirl. At the moment, though, you can't get to them from the website's main page. How dumb is that? The only reason I even found them is because I subscribe to the email [...]
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New Garden Blog Directories: Meet My Competition
January 30, 2007 – Posted in: Blogging Art and Practice, Recommended LinksMany of you know I keep a listing of garden blogs on this site. For some of you, it was how you found me. It's an indication of how our little corner of the blogging world has grown that two more blog directories specifically devoted to gardening blogs have shown up. I found Dig in [...]
Rundy publishes his first book
January 28, 2007 – Posted in: About this site, Fruit, Recommended LinksFaithful readers of this blog will remember Rundy's struggles with the brush mower, his love of fruit trees, and his fist-shaking frustration with animal pests. Those of you who are relatively new to this blog can read all his entries here. I am happy to tell you that Rundy's first work of fiction, The Stuttering [...]
Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 4
January 21, 2007 – Posted in: Acquisitions, Design, How-to, Recommended Links, Seeds and Seed Starting, Series, Spreadsheets in Gardening, WishlistIn part 3 I showed how to put the finishing touches on a spreadsheet that calculated the potential cost of a plant order in progress. But because of its tabular format, a spreadsheet is often used in situations where a lot of information needs to be organized, even if no calculations are made. Below are [...]
Using spreadsheets in garden planning: Part 1
January 16, 2007 – Posted in: How-to, Recommended Links, Seeds and Seed Starting, Series, Spreadsheets in Gardening, WishlistI mentioned in a recent post that I use a spreadsheet to plan my garden purchases. Others have mentioned using a spreadsheet to track their seed sowing. But that doesn't help you much if you don't know a spreadsheet from a tablecloth, so let's start right there: a spreadsheet is a computer program that arranges [...]
Rethinking Your Vegetable Garden
January 7, 2007 – Posted in: Recommended Links, VegetablesBarbara Damrosch rightly points out that not only is this a good time of year (for us Northerners, at least) to be thinking about what to plant in the vegetable garden next year, but it's also a good time to think about that garden on a more FUNdamental level: If your vegetable garden isn't fun [...]
New England Garden Events
December 15, 2006 – Posted in: Events, Recommended LinksLookee here: a blog devoted to New England Garden Events. Events with big names, like Dan Hinkley, Rick Darke, Sean Conway, Gordon Hayward, Fergus Garrett . . . need I go on? If New England is your territory, or you're going to be in the neighborhood, this is worth checking out. And just think, you [...]
The Vermont Gardener
December 8, 2006 – Posted in: Recommended LinksI owe it to Rick Anderson of the Whispering Crane Institute to finally nudge me over to The Vermont Gardener and take a look. I had seen VermontFlowerFarm join the Gardening group at LibraryThing and had checked out the profile, but never got any further than that. Turns out I've been missing a real gem. [...]
More About Voles (Maybe More than You Want to Know)
November 30, 2006 – Posted in: Pests, Plagues, and Varmints, Recommended LinksThis just came to my attention. Barbara Damrosch dishes the dirt about these rodents in A Game of Whack-a-Vole: No sentiment please. No matter how reverent we gardeners may feel about the web of life there are times when the list of predators must include you. We're on the same page, Barbara.
A Garden Blog with a Different Perspective
November 29, 2006 – Posted in: Recommended LinksMost garden blogs are written by home gardeners. A few are written by garden writers, and a few I've seen are written by nursery owners. The Plant Hunter - New Plants is the first blog I've seen written by someone involved in the process of bringing new plants to market. Tim Wood is currently the [...]
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