Dobbies - sharing great gardening sites
With each one offering something new and different, why not have a peek at them all?
1. Backyard Gardening – Writing from Michigan, New York, editor Chris covers both gardening and landscape design. It includes blogs on edible gardening, critters and creatures through to plant profiles and planting ideas. A mix of light hearted humour and hard facts make this a joy to read.
2. Daughter Of The Soil – Psych-folk musician Rebsie Fairholm is ‘busily championing the lost art of amateur plant breeding and the joy of heritage vegetables’ with this extremely informative and lovely blog.
3. Garden Rant – Created in 2006 and quickly developed a following of garden bloggers and professionals alike. They have received praise from The Washington Post, the BBC’s Gardens Illustrated, and the National Gardening Association to name but a few. They offer a wealth of gardening knowledge in a witty and fun manner.
4. Greensparrow – Written by a self confessed ‘addict’ of plants; Joseph Tychonievich speaks of his adventures of growing unfamiliar species’ from seed in a funny, eloquent and well informed manner.
5. Gwirrel’s Garden – A beautiful blog with regular updates and high quality photography by Liz; an organic gardener based in Sheffield.
6. Gardening Women – A personal and at times heat warming blog by Catherine Horwood on gardening and life in general. Her tales of tending two gardens; one a roof garden in London, the other a country garden in Suffolk are enjoyable and varied.
7. Hills and Plains Seedsavers – This is a blog of ‘the journey of 76 seed savers in pursuit of peace and passion in the vegetable gardens of Southern Australia’. It discusses the seasons, vegetables and cooking in a light hearted, informative tone. The occasional question posed gives it a very interactive feel.
8. Successful Gardens – Gary and Brenda Emmett share a wealth of info, facts, hints and tips of how to maintain and get the best out of your garden.
9. Soilman – This is a blog written by a journalist and vegetable growing enthusiast in South East England. Soilman is informative and amusing, but beware he likes to “tell it like it is, in robust anglo-saxon”.
10. Compostings – A fresh, philosophical look at the different aspects of gardening. Includes ten helpful tips on how to grow a vegetable garden. Full of good advice, humour, musical influences and tales from the blogger’s small backyard plot in Connecticut.
11. Daphne’s Dandelions – Includes lots of hints and tips about what to grow in which month and how to control plant disease in the garden. Advice on growing rarer vegetables from the east make this an interesting and helpful blog.
12. The Family Garden – Notes from a garden plot in Prunedale, California. Tales of children, chickens and all things green as well as some pretty pics make this a pleasure to view.
13. Viggies Veggies – Lynn’s blog is varied and colourful, telling of her push to live simply and frugally by growing what she can, and then creating what she can with the produce. From soap making to Angora rabbit shearing, a fun, informative blog with lots to see and do.
14. Flower Hill Farm – Photo rich blog of a twenty acre hillside paradise including fruit trees, wildly cultivated flowers, forest and all sorts of creatures. Bird and flower lovers alike be warned… you’ll find it hard to come away from Flower Hill Farm!
15. Maybeline’s Garden – Based in Bakersfield, California, opinions and information on a varied and extremely interesting batch of flowers, fruit and veg. Tips and plans on constructing new garden supports and two purrrfect cats.
16. A Sonoma Garden – A real friendly, honest and funny blog created by husband and wife gardening team, Scott and Kendra. Includes a nice money saving guide on How To Make Laundry Detergent and information setting up raised beds using hay bales.
17. Simple/Green/Frugal – They are a writers’ co-operative that focus on self reliance, sustainability and organic gardening (and a whole lot more!). A wealth of knowledge and some genius ideas are available here in this well laid out, pretty and inspiring blog.
18. Grow & Resist – This blog intermingles gardening with cooking, canning, parenting, chicken care, urban farming, and crafting, which is very fun to browse through.
19. Greenfingers Guide – A blog by award winning garden designer Lucy Summers based in East Anglia. It includes helpful and straightforward advice on how and when to grow the correct plants for your garden. A well rounded blog with tons of useful facts, tips and information. By listening to her advice of “Rule one; never play it safe”, you’ll soon have a garden to be proud of.
If you want to read more great gardening blogs have a look at our dedicated gardening blogs section. We love telling the world about gardening blogs, so if you know of one that we should feature, please feel free to contact us and let us know.
