Thanks, everybody, for your comments in response to my chicken gardening dilemma. Jessi Bloom, author of Free Range Chicken Gardens, chose a winner and offered all kinds of interesting ideas for keeping the girls out of the vegetable beds. First, our winner is Kerry, who Jessi chose because she loved her ideas about creating a [...]
Read more in: Eat This, Guest Rants, Unusually Clever People
Posted by
Amy Stewart on February 8, 2012 at 4:31 am This post has 3 responses.
Guest Rant by Robert Valenti Mornings used to be spent in the garden. That was before the frost. These days, I prefer to admire the garden through a bay-window in my kitchen. I stand before the window each morning, coffee in hand, and just stare. I stare at the...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Susan Harris on December 17, 2011 at 5:02 am This post has 10 responses.
Here's a guest column from Toronto Star garden writer and author Sonia Day. Watch for our review of her new book, The Untamed Garden. (The heirlooms in the photo were grown by a Buffalo-area gardener.) Heirlooms can provide a successful crop—and sometimes not. Happens every year. Regular as clockwork....
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on October 27, 2011 at 5:00 am This post has 37 responses.
Here’s another guest rant from James Roush, a professor of veterinary medicine who blogs at Garden Musings. Was anyone else seduced by the hype of the Drift® roses this year? The slogans were enticing: "From the introducers of the Knock Out family," and "The Next Big Thing for Small...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on October 20, 2011 at 4:32 am This post has 10 responses.
Thirteen or maybe 14 years ago, when I was living in New York, I took home an unusual-looking plant. I visited my uncle’s mother, who lived in Manhattan surrounded by cactus-like plants that were surprisingly soft, without any spines. She gave me a small one for my apartment in...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Amy Stewart on September 10, 2011 at 9:29 am This post has 10 responses.
I’m sometimes asked to include images of my own garden in my slideshow when I give a talk. I always make a point of including this photograph, which shows what my garden looks like in the middle of winter, when all the flowering perennials are cut down to the...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Amy Stewart on August 17, 2011 at 5:58 am This post has 23 responses.
Please welcome Katie Elzer-Peters, who, in addition to her love of Civil War battlefields, runs a business writing and marketing company for garden businesses called Garden of Words. She's also recently taken charge of Great Garden Speakers, our ever-growing horticultural speakers bureau. Here's Katie: I used to be an...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Amy Stewart on July 27, 2011 at 5:34 am This post has 16 responses.
How did your roses do this year, and are they still going strong? Friend of Rant Pat Leuchtman/ Commonweeder wants more people to grow roses—here’s her guest rant explaining why. Pink Grootendorst How many times have I heard people say, “I love roses, but they are too much trouble...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on July 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm This post has 14 responses.
While I am in Chicago sans laptop, here's a guest post from Kansas blogger and professor of veterinary medicine James Rousch.–Eliz. A post by Carol of May Dreams Gardens, suggesting that a dandelion she had pulled was at least a 4-pointer, got me to thinking that gardeners everywhere need a common...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on May 2, 2011 at 5:10 am This post has 28 responses.
Here's a guest rant from Kansas master gardener, blogger, and veterinary surgeon James Roush. And be sure to check out Michele's beautifully-illustrated essay on this plant in the current Garden Design.—Elizabeth One of my many, many pet gardening peeves (which should be differentiated from the many pets that peeve me in my...
Read more in: Guest Rants, It's the Plants, Darling
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on March 8, 2011 at 4:32 am This post has 39 responses.
We regularly invite and post guest rants, but in 2009 Susan had the great idea to devote the last couple weeks of summer to guest rants. It gives us a break and you a chance to let it all hang out. Our guest ranters have written some fearless and...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on December 31, 2010 at 4:59 am This post has 5 responses.
A guest rant from Joseph Tychonievich. See more of Joseph's cartoons here. (Joseph was a popular attendee of garden bloggers' Buffa10. Many of us wanted to adopt him.)
Read more in: Guest Rants, Taking Your Gardening Dollar
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on December 28, 2010 at 4:35 am This post has 15 responses.
Guest Rant by Steve Bates There is a largely unspoken, unwritten, undeniable truth among gardeners. Let’s bring it out in the light of day: It’s impossible to be a totally organic gardener. Let’s start with the soil itself. Gardening organically means not adding or using anything that was not...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Susan Harris on December 4, 2010 at 4:45 am This post has 22 responses.
Here's a guest post from Zoe Poster, who blogs at Pearled Earth. I am easily vacuumed into the dark vortex of anxiety created by Unwanted Chaos in My Garden (wild self-seeding of Eschscholzia amongst eggplants = good chaos; wild animals with giant gleaming teeth laying waste to my carrots...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on November 11, 2010 at 4:58 am This post has 19 responses.
Guest Post by Sandra Knauf of Greenwoman Zine. I've had my share of bulb fever over the years. It's always the same, coming on in late summer, intensifying with fall, eased only by hours poring over full-color bulb-porn catalogs and long, excited lists. I've splurged a few times, putting...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Susan Harris on November 4, 2010 at 4:31 am This post has 17 responses.
Here's a guest post from James Roush, who hates mums as much or maybe even more than I do. James's blog is Garden Musings.—Eliz. My muse for today's blog is a coworker and friend who's also a new homeowner. She's faced with the dilemma of all non-gardeners who suddenly find themselves with a town...
Read more in: Guest Rants, It's the Plants, Darling
Posted by
Elizabeth Licata on October 17, 2010 at 5:00 am This post has 19 responses.
Everybody loved Pam J.'s comment on Elisabeth Tova Bailey's guest post, so we're sending a copy of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating to Pam! Here's what Pam had to say: This reminds me so much of my dad and his relationship with a tiny spider in his...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Amy Stewart on October 9, 2010 at 9:21 am This post has 6 responses.
Guest Post by Sandra Knauf of Greenwoman Zine I realize it's not a nice thing to complain about, with the prurient overtones and all, but I'm disappointed. My peter peppers don't look like they are supposed to! Go ahead and be disgusted. Judge me. I can't help...
Read more in: Eat This, Guest Rants
Posted by
Susan Harris on October 9, 2010 at 5:31 am This post has 13 responses.
My friend hugged me, said good-bye, and drove off. At age thirty-four, on a brief trip to Europe, I was felled by a mysterious viral or bacterial pathogen, resulting in severe neurological symptoms. I had thought I was indestructible. But I wasn’t. If anything did go wrong, I figured...
Read more in: Guest Rants
Posted by
Garden Rant on October 2, 2010 at 5:48 am This post has 29 responses.
by Guest Susan Tomlinson of The Bike Garden This is Clint. As you can see, he works in the paint department of Home Depot. What you can't see is that he’s also the bass man in a beloved local band, The Thriftstore Cowboys. I met Clint a few years...
Read more in: Guest Rants, Taking Your Gardening Dollar
Posted by
Susan Harris on September 27, 2010 at 4:00 am This post has 39 responses.
