Many thanks to Ken Druse and Vicki Johnson for inviting me to chat with them in today’s episode of Real Dirt Radio. They said lots of nice things!
Of particular interest here is our discussion of sustainable gardening – what does it mean? All agreed that it’s a holistic approach, and Ken added an important point – that it’s a realistic, factoring in real-world limitations like labor and cost. I chimed in about all the interest now in lawn replacement – but with what? Compared to the cost of grass seed, masses of perennials are expensive!
I’m excited to announce that garden designer, television host and speaker Shirley Bovshow of Los Angeles has contributed 3 terrific lawn removal stories to the website, and oodles of photos. Check out:
I’d known Shirley a bit online but got to spend real-time with her in Portland last month. Now if I can just finagle an invite to visit her in LA, maybe next February. I’ll work on it.
A terrific bunch of contributors to the website have been jumping on board over the last month and it’s high time I make a 
fuss over them! Here’s a little bit about them and their contributions so far.
- Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott is the hort guru who recently helped out over on GardenRant with clarifications about using wood chips as mulch - check it out. But who is she? 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, ‘Horticultural Myths.’ She’s also author of The Informed Gardener. And because I asked for a photo, heeere’s Linda!
MORE CONTRIBUTORS?
Know anyone else who writes wisely about sustainable gardening topics, including yourself? Let us know in a comment.
Top photo: Linda Chalker-Scott. Next, clockwise from upper left: Don, C.L., Ginny, and Debbie. Lower composite, same deal: Stuart, Lise, and Billy.
Doncha love garden guests, especially when they’re gardening addicts AND gardenwriters? Robin Wedewer is Examiner.com’s national garden writer and has her own blog, too – BumblebeeBlog. Think we had much to talk about?
Big news on the second-career front! A promising new website called OrganicGardener.com has hired me to write short but meaty articles for them, and the operative word here is "hired". We online writers get awfully frustrated by all the requests to republish our work FOR FREE, which is still lots better than all the crawlers that steal our work outright, so it’s a breath of fresh air to hear from business people willing and able to look for quality and then PAY FOR IT! (I know, very old-school, but a formula that seems to still work.)
Organic Gardener’s plan is to post new articles by yours truly once or twice a week, and here are my first two:
Follow up, as promised:
Of course it WAS actually on TV but you probably missed it and my cable service is screwed up so thank god for the Internet, huh? Here’s the link to the article - where you can leave a comment if you’d like – and click on the right to watch the video.
My reaction? Coming Saturday on GardenRant.
