Favourite Vegetable Garden Blogs

Posted by Amy Urquhart Feb 6, 2008

Weblogs are a terrific means for finding like-minded people...whether a gardener’s focus of interest is perennial gardens, annual flower gardens, community gardening or vegetable gardening, it is highly likely that there are several well-written blogs on the Internet to choose from.

I’ve found several weblogs that tell the stories of individual gardens and gardeners, blogs that I visit on a regular basis. When my garden is covered with frost and snow, I find comfort and inspiration in reading the stories of other gardeners.

In particular, there are two gardening blogs I read on a continual basis, both of which focus on growing edible plants, including vegetables and herbs, by organic gardening methods.

In My Kitchen Garden is a beautiful kitchen gardening blog written by gardener and sheep farmer known simply around the blogosphere as “Farmgirl Susan.” Susan’s home, sheep farm and organic vegetable garden is located in Missouri. She has written many informative and instructional posts, including her popular tutorial, “From Seed to Salad Bowl in Less Than a Month.” Susan also blogs about farm life at her other blog, Farmgirl Fare, and both of her sites are filled with beautiful and inspirational photographs of animals, food and vegetables.

You Grow Girl is a website that has been created by organic gardener Gayla Trail. Gayla’s focus is on growing unique, organic vegetables in small spaces, including her own rooftop garden and a community garden plot, both of which are located in busy downtown Toronto, Ontario. Her garden blog entries include beautiful close-up photographs of edible plants she has grown as well as public and community gardens she has encountered while traveling. You Grow Girl also features an interactive forum for gardeners to communicate with one another on a regular basis.

Give them a read!