Barbara Damrosch makes the case that frost is a gardener's good friend. She points out that the action of frost on the soil helps to break it up and improve it, and gives suggestions on how to use this to your advantage. This is a more workable idea for vegetable gardens than for perennial beds, [...]
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Garden bloggers tell their stories
November 16, 2006 – Posted in: Recommended LinksThis past September, Stuart Robinson of Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas interviewed several garden bloggers to find out what got them started. Just in case you are as far behind in your reading as I am, the intro is here, and you can easily follow the links at the top of each post to find the [...]
When Blogging Is No Longer Technology
November 10, 2006 – Posted in: Blogging Art and Practice, Recommended LinksWe perceive something to be technology only when it is still new and, like most new things, not quite working the way it's supposed to. Nobody thinks that the wheel is technology, though it's as important a piece of technology as humanity has ever invented. . . . It is when people stop thinking of [...]
Gardening Explained. On Film.
October 29, 2006 – Posted in: Garden chores, Recommended LinksNews flash: There is a snowdrop that blooms in the fall, Galanthus reginae-olgae, Queen Olga's snowdrop. Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck, in the most excellent A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden, confirm that It does indeed bloom in the snow, the first snow, which generally comes about the last week [...]
There’s a Map for It
October 27, 2006 – Posted in: Recommended LinksGot this email today: About 6 months ago, Mapmuse.com began a project- the interactive mapping of garden centers and nurseries across the US. We initially researched and populated these maps ourselves, with the idea in mind that the public would subsequently add to, and enhance, the information we provided. We mapped each garden center or [...]
Earth-sheltered Greenhouse
October 23, 2006 – Posted in: Hardscaping and Projects, Recommended LinksHere are plans to make an Earth-sheltered Greenhouse from a man in Idaho. He actually built it into the side of a hill to help moderate the temperatures inside. It looks like he dug it all out by hand. (Click on slide show for close-ups.) He must have wanted vegetables badly! I'm pretty sure if [...]
Gardening Group at LibraryThing
October 19, 2006 – Posted in: Book reviews, Recommended LinksIf you're the type of person who pays attention to sidebars, you probably already know that I'm a member of LibraryThing. (Hint: it's a section called My Bookshelf, and it's only on the sidebars I thought most appropriate.) Over the summer, LibraryThing started a new aspect to their site called "Groups", which I didn't discover [...]
Blogging and Copyright Protection series by Lorelle
October 15, 2006 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and Practice, Recommended LinksSeveral weeks ago on Garden Rant there was a small storm of indignation regarding the attitude expressed at a garden writers convention that what bloggers write was free for the taking without attribution. Most bloggers are flattered to be quoted, but instances of entire posts being republished somewhere else without permission, or even acknowledgment, are [...]
Tulips or Not Tulips: That is the Question
October 8, 2006 – Posted in: Plant info, Recommended LinksEvery fall gardeners buy tulips, and every spring I read blog posts complaining about tulips. Part of the problem, I think, is that many people assume that since they are sold at the same time as daffodils and bloom about the same time, that they behave the same in the garden. But they actually don't [...]
Garden Bloggers’ Book Club
October 4, 2006 – Posted in: Book reviews, Miscellaneous, Recommended LinksCarol of May Dreams Gardens is proposing a Garden Bloggers' Book Club for this winter. Quite a few people have signed on, and I'm adding my name to the list. Currently Carol is still soliciting suggestions for which books to read. Frankly, there have been so many good suggestions that I don't know how she'll [...]
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