Planet Veggie Garden

How many of you gardeners out there are a bit lonely in your gardening “hobby”… how many of you have friends and family that – when they see or hear about your garden – say “that’s nice dear” and steer the conversation away from such “fringe” activities?
That may change in the future. Home veggie gardens [...]

…all 197,000 square feet of living roof at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The entire roof of the new CAS is covered with planting medium and planted with 1.7 million plants. Wow, I want one of those!
How lucky are chef’s Charles Phan and Loretta Keller when they can [...]

So what if 40% of our produce was grown by amateurs… “home hobby gardeners”?
If I use press articles as an indicator, there’s definitely more resonance with grow your own food these days.
A number of seed companies (in the US and UK) have commented that veggie seeds outsold flower seeds in 2006-07 – the first time [...]