About Contributors to Sustainable-Gardening
- Susan Harris is the publisher, editor and primary author of this website. All articles on this website not credited to a contributor were written by Susan. Read all about her here.
- Los Angeles garden designer Shirley Bovshow contributes three great delawning projects: "Front Yard Garden Replaces Lawn and Lone Palm"; "Create a Neat Edible Front Yard with a Knot Garden"; and "Extreme Lawn Makeover...Low-Water Plants Take Over."
- Scott Arboretum Curator Andrew Bunting explains "Peat-Free Potting Soil.
- Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott is an extension urban horticulturist and associate professor at Puyallup Research and Extension Center, Washington State University. She is the Washington State editor of MasterGardener magazine and for six years she authored an online column, 'HorticulturalMyths'. Her first contributions are: The Myth of the Wandering Weedkiller, The Myth of Tree-Staking, and The Myth about Drainage Material in Containers.
- Don Engebretson, Renegade Gardener, Minnesota landscape professional and award-winning author: "10 Landscaping Blunders and How to Avoid Them", "Myth-Busting: When planting a new tree DO NOT amend the soil", "Myth-Busting: Moss growing on lawn is a sign of acidic soil," and "Dividing Shrubs? Don't DO That!".
- Garden Lady C.L. Fornari in Massachusetts: "Carefree Perennials," her favorites for sustainable gardeners.
- Dr. Jeffrey Gillman of the U. of Minnesota Dept of Horticulture opines on Cold-Hardy, Disease-Resistant Roses, and No-Till Gardening. He'll be reporting to us regularly on New Hort Research that Gardeners Can Use (coming soon!)
- Landscape architect Billy Goodnick, the Garden Wise Guy in Santa Barbara, California: "The Pro's and Con's of Faux Turf" is a fair and balanced accounting from an arid-climate perspective.
- Liz Haegele, also an expert at The Scott Arboretum, writes about Apartment Composting.
- Climate change expert Michael Johnsen contributed "The Carbon Footprint in your Garden."
- Writer/speaker/Master Gardener Joe Lamp'l (Joe Gardener) in North Carolina: "Grasscycling; Going Bagless for the Environment"; "To Mow or Not to Mow" weighs lawn against an all-Mondo-grass alternative; and all about "Integrated Pest Management" (IPM).
- Master Gardener and garden designer Lise Mahne of Dry Ideas in Denver: "7 Principles of Xeriscaping" and "How to Make your own Solitary Beehouse."
- Garden Girl TV Patti Moreno in Boston gives us these videos with text:: "My Garden" shows us her urban sustainabale and edible garden; and in "Urban Sustainable Living" we learn that Patti's gone waaay beyond gardening.
- Australian garden writer Stuart Robinson, author of Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas and mastermind behind Blotanical: "Using Rubber Mulch in your Garden", "Vegetables that MUST be Organic", and Foliar v. Slow-Release Fertiliser".
- Ginny Stibolt, author of Sustainable Gardening for Florida and the Transplanted Gardener: "Just say no to poisons".
- Debra Teachout-Teashon of Rainy Side Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest: "My Gardening Practices aren't so 'out there' after all," about her lifelong commitment to organic gardening.