Sustainable Gardening News

 In the News

• A garden is reborn - and a gardener born - in the New York Times.
• The popularity of tree-climbing is growing within eco-tourism circles, and according to this article, it's considered "slow travel".  Well, sure, but not if you're flying off to Brazil to do it.
  
• Have you heard about the new water footprint for food? There's no footprint yet for ornamental plants, but it may come next.
  
• In the Chicago Tribune, how community gardens pull neighborhoods together.
• Found - good article by the folks at The Natural Gardener in Austin: How to teach sustainable gardening to your customers.
• Food writer Eric Schlosser says he'd rather eat a conventionally grown tomato harvested by well treated workers than an heirloom picked by oppressed workers.  Boy, that's stirring the pot!  And this article calls the "organic" label  merely "quaint packaging"! 

 On the Sustainable Gardening Blog

• Topics ranged from Michelle O's Veg Garden to sustainability and somehow got us laughing, as described here in Fun with Ken Druse. 
• Pollinator Heaven and Hell contrasts a "perfect" American lawn, and my ex-lawn that's abuzz.
  
• New Website Design - Feedback Appreciated.

 On GardenRant

• Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies by Owen Dell is part review, part questioning of the author, with everyone chiming in and Owen responding.  Hottest topic?  Soil amendments - bad, good, needed?
• Good Gubernatorial Gardening in Harrisburg, and the cry for Lawn Reform Now!
• True Confession;  I gave up on worm composting. No point in pretending I'm a vermiphile when I'm not.
• New Quarterly Round-up of Hort Research that  Gardeners can Use by Jeff Gillman. 
• The Truth about Jeff Gillman is a video tour of the products in garden centers by our favorite hort professor.
• Learning to Live without Grass in Buffalo.
• Hire some goats and give up the Toro.  Sounds good, but who are we kidding?
  
• Front Lawn Police - in Berkeley? Just proves it can happen anywhere.
  
• Governors Climbing on board the veg-growing bandwagon.  Is that all?  Wherein I rant about the lack of interest in the unfun issues like stormwater management and pollution.
  
• Spireas just want to be free is a rant about really, really bad pruning.

Gardenblogger Out and About

• In  Chicago, didn't want to leave their Botanic Garden (photo above).  Or the Lurie (photo upper right).
• Plugging Lawn  Reform at the American Horticultural Society.
• I visited Chanticleer Garden - wow.  The Scott Arboretum and Morris Arboretum?  Ditto.  All in two awesome days I spent in and around Philly. 

Coming Up

• I'm off to Los Angeles!  I get to see family - it's wedding bells for my nephew - AND such gardening buddies as Shirley Bovshow and (I hope) Debra Prinzing.  Also Huntington Garden.  I damn well better  pack my camera battery charger this time (mistake made in Chicago.)

In the Garden

• Herbs, Finally - more on the growing of food by a newbie.
• For Bloom Day, a mess 'o hydrangeas, spireas and astilbes.
• Whole Lotta Schlepping of Water - Update on Growing Vegs on my Deck.
  

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