Kate Gardner is The Manic Gardener, and her amazing blog is dedicated to the art of organic horticulture. As the name of the site suggests, subjects covered are a little manic, but the blog is a joy to explore.
Organic gardening galore at The Manic Gardener
In fact, variety is The Manic Gardener’s beauty and attraction. As I write this, the blog’s home page includes posts about gardening books, polygamy in Mali, local fauna, the weather and Kate’s knee surgery.
It’s joyfully mad and contains a lot of useful and varied information on organic gardening. Kate draws from an interesting variety of sources that range from her local organic garden centre guru to the U.S department of agriculture. The Manic Gardener shares an amazing breadth of knowledge and includes posts for all, from the technical benefits of Phytoremediation to the dietary benefits of Dandelions.
If you read nothing else on this blog be sure to browse through the 50 Organic Gardening tips and tricks, as it provides an easy to digest guide to organic gardening. Beware, even the most studious of gardeners will find Kate’s personal blog posts hard to resist. So why not indulge in her reports on Abdoulaye, the Mali science student that lives with Kate and is studying “techniques for detecting and preventing potato diseases”.
The Manic Gardener is as Kate describes “an organic gardening blog with twisted roots”, but they are twisted roots well worth unearthing, which is why it’s Dobbies Gardening Blog of the Week.
