Top 10 Gardening Blogs
If you've already got a green thumb, these blogs can make it greener, whether you're in USDA Zone 5b (darn cold) or 10a (balmy). It all you have so far is a desire to make the dirt around your house beautiful, your own personal produce aisle, or both--they can inspire you to actually get out the door and start planting and weeding.
Lisa Gustavson nicely balances photography and practical, seasonal gardening tips with a bit of poetry and seemingly inexhaustible energy. Vegetable Gardening 101 section helps newbies, a digital clock counts down the seconds to spring, and discussions of heirloom veggies help get you out into the dirt.
Shyrlene blogs about the changes in her yard and garden through the seasons; one season it's snow and mud, the next it's mini-irises, Japanese barberry, Shasta daisies and baby rabbits spending the night in her planters. Explicitly compares gardening to oil or watercolor painting, and plans colorful gardens accordingly.
Advice on growing heirloom fruits and vegetables in containers, a boon for those with no garden space or a desire to grow in greenhouses during the winter (at least in northern California). Grower Mark Delman also covers raising poultry in a backyard for that extra hit of protein on your plate.
A team of gardeners, with the occasional horticulturist or arborist thrown in for good measure, blog about gardening in Pennsylvania, garden shows, native vs. invasive plants, and land-use issues. Entertaining and informative.
Food gardening from Woodland, California with an emphasis on getting the biggest outputs (vegetables) for your inputs (seeds, compost, time). One woman's account of her steps on the road to food sustainability, with stops to battle mosquitoes and clay soil along the way.
Community bulletin board for help for gardeners' daily requests on topics such as potential shrubs for a rock garden, different-colored kniphophia, and reviews of ornamental flowers. Also reviews gardening tools and books, and lets members add to wiki topics such as starting seeds and winter gardening.
From D.C. to Iowa City and now Oakland, California, Genie's been learning to garden--in boxes in her kitchen, in recycled wine barrels, on her patio. Follow along as she figures out how far she'll go to get a good tomato.
Taking after her green-thumbed grandfather, Michelle plots her next moves in the world of vegetables and flowers. Photos illustrate how she turns veggie seedlings into plants and eventually, lunch.
One British Columbia apartment-dweller's adventures in urban gardening, especially at the big box she's got at the local community garden. Also dabbles a bit with home design as she and her husband attempt to make their apartment both beautiful and livable.
Gardening tips along with lush, professional-quality photos of produce and flowers--along with recipes for cooking same. Occasional Fertilizer Friday videos show off what's happening in the author's greenhouse or wherever things may be blooming that week.
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