Expand your gardening circle. Get things going with special interest groups and forums.
Make new gardening friends and exchange mail on the topics you like the most.
Keep track of local gardening festivals and courses – or post those of your organization or group. No ads, please!
Share gardening articles and favorite links with others.
One of my favorite vendors is Renee’s Garden. They have wonderful seeds and every year I get a sample pack.
For the month of February, we’ll award five packets of Renee’s Garden seeds to the person who brings in the most new members. At the end of the month, use our contact form to list the new members you have brought to the site.
We’ll also award three packets of Renee’s Garden seeds to the person who creates the most posts. We’ll know who you are!
TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
The seed selection includes several container varieties for city gardeners – small globe eggplants, bush slicing cucumbers, super bush tomato, zucchini and large leaf basil. There’s also watermelon radish, Wine Country Mesclun salad mix.
For cat lovers, there is Gourmet Cat Treats – Mixed Greens
You MUST be a forum member to win.
Our seed growing articles are now in the ‘Archives’, linked at the top of the page. Be sure and try the worm castings to get extra strong seedlings.
What’s blooming in your garden this month? Take a snap and post it in your gallery under your profile. Be sure and select a cover photo for your album.
Forward to a friend
Garden humor:
“What did the carrot say to the wheat?
Lettuce rest, I’m feeling beet.”
- Shel Silverstein
New Variety Showcase:
Thanks – good idea !!
Decorative winter veggies such as kale, chard, even curly lettuce give some substance to tulip plantings. Tulips have never lasted well in Atlanta and even Post properties, famed for their mass plantings, simply […]
Remember, forums are for posting questions, comments, answers on specific topics.
Groups are for establishing a group of like-minded people to explore specific interests, such as flower gardening, landscaping etc. You can create your own group.
What do you feed them, Pearl? I have had some problems with mine not blooming. I think I’m not feeding them correctly.
Here’s another cure for black spot on roses. Spray once a week with a solution of horticultural oil spray ad baking soda:
1 tablespoon of baking soda and 2 1/2 tablespoons of Sunspray Ultrafine Horticultural Spray […]
by Georgann Schmalz, Ornithologist, Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta, GA
This month, watch for:
Purple martins looking for nests
Shore birds and waterfowl passing through on their way back north
Sandhill […]
getting ready to plant some tulips – best companions??
I have two peonies, both planted with companions to protect them. One surrounded on three sides by crepe myrtles on next to screen porch they are no trouble at all – no pests or diseases!
only one decent area for veggie garden, first owner used it too for years. Now it seems weak, poor growth etc. cheapest way to improve the soil,625 sq ft, can i till in raw horse manure or do i need to treat it first?
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