Since I have been seeing promotions for this new You Grow Girl book everywhere, I finally checked out the website. While I may find the name a bit cutesy for my taste, the website has some good information, and I bet the book is quite good too, although I haven’t seen it yet. Really, I need all the help I can get, given that I have killed at least three of their 8 listed Easy Care Dorm Plants for people with black thumbs!
I love plants and gardening, but I don’t seem to have a lot of luck with certain kinds of plants…. like most of them. I have this philosophy to plant care where I keep trying out new varieties of plants and whatever is able to survive in the environment I can provide is what stays, everything else I just chuck out after it turns into a brown twig.
But last year we had a thriving herb garden on our balcony, and I loved being able to pick fresh herbs for dinner. It was a beautiful day today, and it makes me want to start planting, but I suspect that I should wait a few more weeks before starting anything outside because it still gets quite cold at night. But soon, soon things will be lush and green, I can’t wait to start a balcony garden!
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The website is a great resource, I’ve been reading it since it launched. And I just picked up the book a couple of weeks ago & I highly recommend it – chockful of gradening goodness and really easy to use/read.
4/8/2005 @ 8:55 pm
there’s a chinese saying that goes (roughly translated, as i’m no expert): tending too much to the flower makes it wither; leaving the willow twig alone will cause it to grow into a tree.
or something to that effect. anyways, i have an unbelievably black thumb too, but i’m going by that saying, and hoping for a flourishing balcony garden of herbs and veggies!
glad to have found your site!
4/9/2005 @ 7:47 am
you should check out the author’s photoblog site – http://www.makinghappy.com she takes amazing photographs!!
4/10/2005 @ 9:24 am
Great site — thanks for the post. I always get really overwhelmed when I think about starting a garden because it’s so much work, but their tips and articles seem to really break everything down nicely for you.
4/21/2005 @ 1:35 pm