
Each week, as I step out in the garden blogosphere I'm always met with some of the finest garden stories, pictures of awesome flowering plants and projects that have just commenced. But, I'm mostly attracted to those bloggers who offer us some helpful advice. How to grow this plant; an easier way to compost; or ways to combat weeds in an ever sprawling garden.
There's never a dull moment so here's another dose of some great gardening tips and hints from garden bloggers.
- Pianna Nanna from Thyme for Herbs shares how she cured her headache using herbs - feverfew, to be precise. It always fascinates me how different herbs can alleviate some of our ailments and usually much better and faster than their chemical counterparts.
- Kasmira from Cincinatti Cape Cod explodes the myth that Sweet William will only flower in it's second year by doing it in her first. She is also planning to deadhead her plants this season to try and entice a second flush of blooms. Stay tuned...
- Maureen Gilmer from Gardening with Mo Gilmer: The MoZone has a great post on how to offer support for a vine growing up your wall without losing your wall completely.
- While it isn't truly a gardening tip per se I have been following with interest Deviant Deziner's Napa Pool Project. Garden Porn is turning it on this time demonstrating how landscapers move from the design to actually making it happen. Not everyone's cup of tea, I'm sure, but fascinating none the less.
- Last year Melissa from the Empress of Dirt showed off her Tipsy Pots and gave instructions on how to make them. This year Genie from the Inadvertent Gardener gave it a shot with not as much as success as what Melissa had enjoyed. To Genie's credit though, and our benefit, she shared what went wrong and how she will do it differently next time.
- Finally, Marc from the Garden Desk shares how to grow sweet potato. This was one of the vegetables to grow on his to-do list so it's great to see him getting them going.
And thus ends another week in the garden blogosphere. If you're looking for more garden blogs to read then head over to the Garden Blog Directory and meet some great bloggers.
Comments
Stuart, thanks so much for including me in the round-up! I definitely will try the experiment again at some point -- Melissa has very good ideas and good suggestions for how to actually make it work. The second time, I hope, will be the charm for me!
Posted by: Genie | June 1, 2007 12:03 PM
My pleasure Genie. I'm so impressed that you were honest enough to blog that it didn't work out for you - huge Kudos in my book.
I'm seriously keen to see what happens when you do get it to work though. I loved Melissa's and I'm interested to see others make it happen.
Posted by: Stuart | June 1, 2007 12:34 PM