Sustainable Gardening Blog

Fun news!  Washington Post writer Adrian Higgins did a wonderful profile of GardenRant in today’s paper. He interviewed every one of us, taking notes in pencil on a reporter’s pad, but we weren’t fooled by his retro methods - he got us and gets blogging.   

Here’s my favorite part, about where I live and garden. 

She lives in a cozy house in Takoma Park with a long wooded back yard that extends to a distant stream and beyond. Old trees are festooned with bird nesting boxes and a bat house, and the rear deck is swaddled in a rambunctious hardy kiwi vine. She has just converted her front yard into a decorative vegetable garden in what we take to be an embrace of the local food movement and a reaction against the idea that the American front yard must be lawn.

Ah, so I wonder: Am I embracing the local food movement?  A little, yes, and if it can sweep this noncook away, it must have some impressive momentum going for it.  And how about reacting against lawn?  Yeah, but no more than wanting to grow something I’ve never grown before - and write about it.  Bloggers will do anything for a good post, ya know.  Okay, end of musings.

Like all gardeners, I love certain things about my garden and want others to love them, too, but when a gardening expert visits your garden in February ya have to give up the silly notion of showing off because it ain’t gonna happen.  I’m real happy with anything out there that pleases the eye and it it’s the beaten up old birdhouses "festooning" the trees, great!   Anyway, I was discovering that a nice way to spend a cold winter morning is sitting in a sunny overlooking the deck and woods below, sipping coffee, and having a nice long chat with Adrian Higgins.