Garden Djinn

Bloom Where You Are Planted

Jodi at bloomingwriter invites us to describe our location with a gardener's eye.  Hmmm. This is an interesting challenge.  I've been in Phoenix for less than a year.  What do I know about Phoenix?

Oh. Well.

So I've been laid off, expected, and have some time to get out and read up on things.  (Yes, I'm thinking about getting some real content here, too.   Really.)

But I wander over to Blotanical, checking out gardens with similar climates to mine, right?

I get this:

Am I alone in thinking that if you have your garden listed in the open garden directory, that it might be a bit much to then ask each visitor to ring you up from the locked gate to get permission to come in?

If a body doesn't welcome random visitors, why list in a place like Blotanical?  Doesn't make sense to me.  And puts me all out of sorts about it.  Like a door slamming in my face. 

Doug Green

How To Have a Better Garden Than the Neighbors

I may have posted this before, but it's worth revisiting.  This is from his old site.

He's now located here.

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A Study in Contrasts

Gardening and Artistry: Part I

I haven't been able to articulate a comment on this post of Blackswamp Girl's, because it just has me thinking in so many different directions. 

Good stuff.  Go read!

Don Engebretson

The Secret to a Beautiful Garden

Don Engebretson is The Renegade Gardener

Shepherd Odgen Online

Shepherd Odgen, organic gardener, longtime seed purveyer, and author, is online. 
His blogs:

Garden Smarts (where he is currently posting - serialized in blog format - the text of Step By Step Organic Vegetable Gardening, which I review below.) Poke around a bit here and you'll find a photo gallery of his days in the seed trade.

Garden Klog, a roundup of essays and observations on ecology, agriculture, and the state of nature (Lisa, try his post on Monsanto...)

I will eventually add these links to my sidebar (or add a page of links, I've quite a few I've been visiting but haven't added to the page yet... all in good time) but for now, I thought those of you who are studying soils this month would be interested in knowing that book is becoming available online.