Gardening Tips and Resources
I grew up on a farm in the deep south, and while I didn’t really hate farming, I didn’t love it either. It’s hard, HOT work! That being said, I have to admit that there was always something about the plants, the dirt, and the harvest at the end of all that hard work that really appealed to me. Perhaps that’s why I’ve dabbled with it off and on all these years, never REALLY sinking my teeth into it, but never really letting go either.
Gardening for pleasure is quite different from large scale farming, so I’m often drawn to web sites with gardening tips and resources. Recently, I’ve become interested in high intensity gardening, sometimes referred to as square foot gardening. I’ve bookmarked quite a few web sites that I find interesting, and I’m going to share them with you here. I’ll add a few links today, and try to keep it updated with new sites, as I come across them.
- The Garden Path has information on herbs, flowers, vegetables, and more, but I especially liked this article growing upside down tomatoes.
- Square Foot Gardening is a uniquely simplified method of gardening that produces 100% of the harvest in only 20% of the space without all the hard work and drudgery of single row gardening.
- Pocket Farm is probably a bit more like homesteading than gardening, but I love their website! I especially like their “One Local Summer” program where they cook at least one meal per week that is made from as many locally grown ingredients as possible.
Keeping it real,
