Projo Garden Blog

Cabbage Pride

I started the Garden Blogs List years ago, part blog post, part bookmarks. Over the years I've kept adding to it as garden bloggers around the world found it and asked to be put on the list.

It's hopelessly retro now, one long, long html page. Nevertheless, it's the top Google result if you search for garden blogs. Kathleen Purdy at Cold Climate Gardening has a different list, nearly as long, so you can imagine how many undocumented garden blogs are out there.

Each gardener brings a unique voice and garden; they're all willing to document their efforts to nurture plant life for food or pleasure. Success may be one perfect cabbage after years of cabbage failure.

Over the years, I've turned down only a few -- they either weren't really garden bloggers or were garden link spammers (ads in search of inbound links). Every now and then I run a link checker on the list, but few of these garden blogs have died. We garden on, ever hoping it will all come together. Meanwhile, every new bloom, fruit or resurrection is an occasion to crow and celebrate.

I'm aware that the garden photos I take are largely of my successes. Later, there'll be photos of plants that are ungainly now, but will get their turn to look good enough to frame. I like it when these garden bloggers show us their diseased and bug-ridden plants, although that's rare. I'm thinking of starting a slideshow where you can show us Your Garden Failures.

I've added a few more blogs to the Garden Blogs List (more to come), including a prize-winning garden blog in the Netherlands.

Go drool.

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Alena said:

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Alena

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