Vegetable Gardens are hot, hot, hot! by Shelley Lance
Baby, it’s cold outside, but vegetable gardening is hot! Though the recession is hurting most businesses, “seed companies have a bumper crop of customers,” according to this article in the Seattle Times. Seems like everyone wants to get out and dig in the dirt (if it would only stop snowing, hailing, and freezing), but what if you don’t have a yard, or what if you do have a yard but no time or skills? Amy Pennington of Go Go Green Garden (and a Tom Douglas Restaurants alumna) has just launched a brand new website called Urban Garden Share where city folks with yard space but no garden experience can match themselves up with experienced gardeners who need a patch of dirt to work in. This is an ingenious way to revive the Victory Garden for modern times. Also, Fine Cooking (Taunton Press) just sent me an email about their newly launched Vegetable Gardener. New as it is, the site already has several fascinating and useful articles. Two that I particularly liked, “How to Grow Radishes” and “Radishes are Multi Purpose Vegetables” which explains how to eat everything from sprout to leaf to root to seedpod, are from the archives of Taunton’s very wonderful, but now defunct Kitchen Gardener magazine.
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