Gardening Blogs

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

Whenever I’m interested in a new area, my first reaction is to hit the web. Usually, I find what I’m looking for not on wikipedia or about.com or any organised information site, but on various blogs. My next reaction is to acquire as many books on the topic as I can, but I’m trying to go for the library option on that instead. The latest interest to get hit this way is gardening, and specifically what I consider to be real gardening - herbs, fruit and vegetables.

So here are some of the blogs that I’ve been reading and enjoying over the last couple of weeks.

My Tiny Plot details the progress from a small allotment plot up through several more plots of land, to the current series on landscaping a garden for food production. There are plenty of photographs, and a good bit of useful and encouraging detail.

Henbogle deals with hens, woodwork, recycling, and gardening - a solidly interesting mix.

Future House Farm has similar topics, and a bit more emphasis on fruit.

One Straw: Be The Change deals more specifically with sustainability, both in farming and in the wider world. It’s fascinating reading.

Tiny Farm Blog deals with organic market gardening. There’s a post a day, regular-like, and I’m particularly enamoured of the pictures that have deep snow and cold. Not that I’m going to have to deal with that anytime soon…

Comments

[metalrabbit.livejournal.com]

Really interested in doing a herb garden when our place is finished and I may venture into other bits. Mind you I usually manage to kill things :( Keep posting!

[sshi.livejournal.com]

Seconded. I'm nearly finished clearing out one of the beds in our back garden, in order to plant Millions of Vegetables. I think the fact that I managed to grow two tomato plants last year has gone to my head...

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

My plan, when our place is done, is to plant loads of vegetables and herbs, then watch them die. I'm not very good at gardening either.

[metalrabbit.livejournal.com]

Thank God I'm not alone ;)