Not often do I find myself giggling about unseemly acts as I did during what you are about to hear today. I’m excited to add to my podcast collection, a piece created with my friend Billy who is not only a talented garden writer for Fine Gardening, but also happens to be a witty social networker and the mastermind behind Crimes Against Horticulture. This is the first podcast that necessitated (in a good way) the use of my censor button, while also breaking my 30-minute rule for pod-casting duration by going well past the mark. Just beyond the half-way point in this podcast, you will be referred to photos that are featured on Billy’s own Flickr page. Listen closely as he directs you to advance to the next image. By clicking the link below, you will be presented with a window that will enable you to follow along as the podcast plays.
Or Follow by Clicking Along in this Slide Show By Billy Goodnick.
Thank you for taking the time today to check out this podcast, and until next time I hope you find some crimes against horticulture to share on Billy’s facebook.
Sometimes the best way to kick start a Monday is just get down in the stones and roll with it!
I couldn’t help but get down and give that little kitty some love while taking this photo one sunny Monday morning this summer. As I was down on the ground eye to eye with Boo taking a photo to remember the moment it. Leave it to a garden kitty to put things in perspective for ya.
Speaking of ROLLING WITH IT : my friends over at Corona Tools are putting on a networking competition where you could win a gift package of tools to fill your garden shed with Red! From Today until November 15 2011 when the winners are announced I’ll have the widget on my side bar here on my webpage where you can click on over and find out more information. I hope you will join in and try winning some outstanding tools!
See you at #gardenchat tonight …. we are talking with @moss_rocks about gardening moss style!
Quick Video Sharing How EASY It Is To Have Costa Farms At Your Finger Tips!
A little over a month ago I took the ‘plunge’ and I purchased a smart phone. I not only went ‘smart’ …. I went really smart and bought an Iphone. Now keep in mind I was already an ipad user so it was basically a ‘no brainer’ to purchase the additional Apple mobile device. The two products sync together making it the perfect tool for my photography work to keep me sharing while on the road. There are so many creative applications you can download for your mobile devices these days and many that are garden themed resources.
One of my favorites is the new APP by Costa Farms : Growing Style. This App can be found on any Apple mobile device in the App Store by searching ‘Growing Style’. I want to note that the press release states you can down load this on your android phones as well. The App is super easy to download onto your Apple device. I have it on both my iphone and my ipad. The App is FREE and takes only a few short minutes to download it to your mobile device. You know my favorite thing about the Growing Style App is the amazing images.
Costa Farms - Making It Easy To Enjoy The Garden
So what do you think of gardening Apps for your phone? Have you been able to download any that you find useful for your growing experience? I would love to hear from you so please leave me your thoughts on this blog entry.
The month of August brought plenty of dry wind and little precipitation while I traveled away from home for garden events. With all the containers in my yard it is impossible to expect them all to be cared for as well as they should be while I’m away. One of my biggest loses was this climber < Great Cascade / Wine Red Lophospermum> I found on the deck in it’s container dried out at the root but a few vines alive inter twined in a container that was growing on the lower shelf. Salvaging the few vines I found in the window above my kitchen sink where I can give TLC with hopes of roots to sprout.
What kitchen would be complete with out an aloe plant?
HAD TO PURCHASE – the two aloe plants in 2 1/2″ pots from the local IGC at an end of the season low price. Seriously, what kitchen doesn’t have an aloe plant for those burns that may accrue while baking?
Little Tree Shelters Tomorrows BLT
One of my little treasures on the windowsill is this mini tree I brought home from the Garden Writers Association event I attended last week. This plant is going to be added to the mini container gardens that will be moved to the greenhouse in a few weeks so they continue to grow for the winter. Those tomatoes under the little tree were green a few days ago. Judging by how quick they turned red, they most love being under that little tree. The tree is a dwarf Korean Fir that only grows 2-3″ per year. Small space growers like this fir were all the rage both at the IGC show and the GWA event I attended in August.
That was fun…. I hope you share what you have growing on your Kitchen windowsill. I took these photos with my Iphone camera and did the edits with the “BE-FUNKY” app. I’m having way too much fun with the simple camera in that phone!
It was a year ago I shared my hand full of harvest from my veggie & bloom garden grown from seed here in Ohio garden zone 5. This years harvest is a huge heap of passion featured in the photo below.
Zinnias & Veggies All Grown From Seed
Growing from seed definitely is something I plan to incorporate into my lifestyle each spring no matter how busy I maybe. From the looks of what I left behind in the garden I will be pulling a harvest like the one in this photo for the next few weeks. The experience of growing my garden from seed truly makes me passionate about my harvest. What have you grown from seed this summer?
Happy to have had a busy summer filled with nonstop gardening fun but hard to believe that we are turning the page on the calendar to September 2011. I’m not going to say ‘what,where, or when’ only we have so much more growing fun a head of us for 2011.
In the photo featured on this entry is one of the dahlia roots I started in the greenhouse this past April. Did you start anything early that you are still enjoying in your garden?
Billy Goodnick - Crimes Against Horticulture Interview [ 52:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Now keep in mind I was already an ipad user so it was basically a ‘no brainer’ to purchase the additional Apple mobile device. The two products sync together making it the perfect tool for my photography work to keep me sharing while on the road. There are so many creative applications you can download for your mobile devices these days and many that are garden themed resources.
