I have found some really wonderful gardening sites that I want to share.I just came across this great blog, Cheap Vegetable Gardener and particularly found this post helpful about cheap organic fertilizer. But I really enjoy the whole site. I'm definitely gardening on a budget and this offers some really helpful ideas.
This sounds so obvious, but even though I subscribe to the magazine, I never thought to look at their website - the Better Homes and Garden plant dictionary is excellent. I'm constantly trying to identify plants.
This is a really fun site. I could spend all day here, just soaking up info: Dave's Garden.
Another site similar to Dave's is Doug Green's Simple Gifts Farm. It's amazing how generous gardeners are with information.
I've sort of been anti-annuals and pro-perennials, I guess because I want the most bang for my buck. But this article made me realize that annuals just give a different kind of bang - maybe not in longevity, but in beauty and color all summer. I went out the next day and bought some fun annuals.
We just became members at Bristol, RI's Blithewold Mansion, Garden and Arboretum. The head gardener there writes a fascinating blog that is worth checking out, no matter where you live.
And this is a really intriguing idea - The Plant Exchange - where people swap plants. I did a local plant swap this spring and got some great stuff. But this expands it way beyond your hometown.
That's it for now. I'll add more interesting links as I come across them. Please feel free to share your own internet finds.
Kira, Thanks for the link-love! I'm very glad that you were swayed towards annuals - I think that article didn't do them justice though. They didn't even mention salvias. (Got to have S. guaranitica for the hummingbirds!) Gail (who is actually the head G here, not me!) and I like to think that a third annuals - and tender perennials, a third perennials and a third shrubs makes a decent mixed garden with long season(s) of color.
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