What’s New
- Growing food is all over the news, as seen in this summary.
- Are we unintentionally doping our plants every time we water them? Check out this report about PharmaWater.
- The New Yorker challenges simple carbon-footprint-per-mile calculations.
- Hey, who defines what’s a "sustainable plant," anyway? The nursery folks weigh in.
- Shearing roses works? Radical notion, but check it out.
- How do the candidates compare on green issues?
- And check out the cool Sunflower Project.
On the Blogs
- When Good People Use Roundup laments how hard it is to be strictly anything. It asks: In these particular situations, what else would work?
- My first ever (blush) soil test is the story of the test, the results, and the question: Can I still brag about my soil?
- There were two meaty dissections of native plant ideology on GardenRant. First Michael Pollan confirmed that he’s still Against Nativism. Then Amy Stewart got sucked into the debate, asking if a grove of redwoods is really the best use of her tiny yard, and a lively discussion ensued.
- Yet another reason to use compost is its side effect of sequestering carbon.
- Confused about invasive plants? Ask THIS guy to figure it all out – John Peter Thompson
What’s New on Sustainable-Gardening
- What Carries a Garden extols the virtues of the lowliest of all garden "tools" – containers for hauling.
- Soil Tests are EASY, so why don’t we use them? Even doing them the right way is easy.
- Footwear in the Garden covers what I really wear, and what different choices in footwear other gardeners make, however inexplicably.
In My Garden
- Virgin veggie-grower vows to do better next year recounts the seed-choosing dilemma, and how on earth to get them in the ground with the right amount of soil on top and my back intact.
My So-Called Second Career
- The coaching biz is HOT, thanks to a wave of publicity in the Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek and the Washington Post. Maybe this doing-what-you-love thing could actually work.
- I’m shocked to report that I’m doing a bit of public speaking. It began with talks to college writing students about "Writing and Publishing on the Web" and has morphed into a full with-digital projection show given at DC’s public libraries. Coming soon – taking it professional through the DC Historical Society’s Writer Series. Gulp.
See the full version, with more photos and off-topic wanderings, right here.
