Gardening Websites

"How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and in that freedom bold."
---William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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This quote came from a gardening newsletter that I receive each week in my email. P. Allen Smith (maybe you have seen him on one of the TV garden programs) has a nice website and sends out a free newsletter. If you are interested in his newsletter, go to his website at http://www.pallensmith.com/ , and then go across the top of the page and hit the newsletter button. Each week he spotlights a new flower or vegetable, shares a seasonal recipe, and sometimes a decorating idea. Keep in mind that he is in a different growing zone than we are, so if he says to plant something, the timing might be off (we have a longer growing season, both in the spring and fall).

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A website that I visit daily is www.urbanhomestead.org/journal . This is about a family in Pasadena, CA, that live on a typical home lot. The home is next to a freeway on one side and a church parking lot on another. Their gardens are inspiring to look at!---see above picture. They garden 1/10th of an acre and produce 3 TONS (6,000 pounds!) of food each year. They also have a few chickens, ducks, two small female goats, and a hive of bees. They started out with a fixer-upper and then spent the last 35 years improving the soil and food production, just one step at a time. If you go to the address above, then to May 7th, skip down to "Sustainable Sundays Presents" there is an hour long video of how this "homestead" came about, with the first 20 or so minutes on just the garden. It is very interesting.