Tag Archives: gardening

Book Review: Grow the Good Life

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Grow the Good Life Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise by Michele Owens 224 pages Rodale, 2011 List price: $24.99 Some gardening books are how-tos and some are entertaining. The former, I tend to …

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Book Review: From Seed to Skillet

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From Seed to Skillet A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love by Jimmy Williams and Susan Heeger 176 pages Chronicle Books, 2010 List price: $30.00 With so many books …

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Book Review: Garden Up!

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Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces by Susan Morrison & Rebecca Sweet 224 pages Cool Springs Press, 2011 List price: $19.95 Sears had “The Wish Book.” Many companies have an “idea book.” Garden Up! is both. …

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Book Review: Sugar Snaps and Strawberries

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Sugar Snaps and Strawberries:Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-Space Edible Garden by Andrea Bellamy 224 pages Timber Press, 2011 List price: $19.95 There’s a plethora of edible gardening books on the market today, following the rising trend of growing …

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Best Garden Blog Red Dirt Ramblings

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We chose this blogger as the first recipient of the Horticulture Best Garden Blog 2011 award because you would be hard-pressed to come across someone in the garden blogging community who hasn’t known, read, or had the chance to meet her.

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Join Team Horticulture!

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In this age of social media, I’m reaching out here on the Editor’s Blog to see if there is one among you who wants to join a dynamic team of passionate gardeners who are carrying on the Horticulture tradition in the 21st century.

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i’m also a shopkeeper

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Before I took on my current role with Horticulture I was the managing editor of the magazine. My focus then was on the print product, and my duties were similar to an air-traffic controller’s whose job it was to make sure it was smooth flying for every issue from making assignments to sending the files off to the printer. Now I include “shopkeeper” among my responsibilities.

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