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The Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book: Incredible Edibles by Sonia Day

Another entry in the Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book, Sonia Day’s Incredible Edibles: 43 Fun Things to Grow in the City is sure to be packed with Sonia’s earthy advice. Her practical, no-nonsense approach to gardening means the pages of her latest book are bound to offer great growing advice for city gardeners.
 
 
 
 
 


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High Line in Winter»

I love New York City at Christmastime: the sidewalk vendors roasting chestnuts; skaters at Bryant Park; open-air craft booths that sprout up in Central Park — and now, the High Line.
 
Non-gardeners just shake their heads when I tell them one of the highlights of a recent pre-Christmas trip to New York (apart from the no-hassle [...]

8 of 12 Great Things I Found At Raleigh»

8. Private Gardens
The story tours of private gardens are a real treat of any Garden Writers Symposium, and the 2009 symposium in Raleigh was no exception. These tours offer a chance to see the best gardens of the region, to talk with the garden-makers and to discover new plants, plant combinations, and design ideas. Here’s [...]

Plants

The Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book: Incredible Edibles by Sonia Day»

Another entry in the Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book, Sonia Day’s Incredible Edibles: 43 Fun Things to Grow in the City is sure to be packed with Sonia’s earthy advice. Her practical, no-nonsense approach to gardening means the pages of her latest book are bound to offer great growing advice for city gardeners.
 
 
 
 
 

The Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book: Growing Great Grub by Gayla Trail»

I hereby proclaim 2010 as The Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book. I swear, from asparagus to zucchini, no day goes by without an announcement of a new tome on how to grow your own vegetables. With such a hunger for local produce, will no backyard, balcony, fire escape or rooftop go bare this summer? To commenmorate the [...]

Style

12 of 12 Great Things I Found at Raleigh»

 
12. Sir Walter
A few days into the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina, a fellow garden writer glanced up at the statue in front of the convention centre that we’d passed about a million times and realized it was Sir Walter Raleigh. I’m not sure what took us so long to make the connection between [...]

10 of 12 Great Things I Found at Raleigh»

10. Play Checks
My family, friends and most passersby who spy the newspaper on the front porch at 9 a.m. know that I’m not a morning person. So, when I dragged myself out of bed to attend the 8 a.m. keynote speech at the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, I sincerely hoped it would be [...]