Victory gardens are so last century. Now, according to CNN, at least, the time has come for “recession gardens.” CNN.com picked up a story for their web site from user-generated ireport.com on ‘Recession gardens’ trim grocery bills, teach lessons. I doubt that the stats on the increased interest in gardening will be a surprise to any of us. But the article does raise a good point, about where the people who are gardening for the first time are getting their information.
Veggie virgins are encouraged to talk face-to-face to gardening neighbors, or to join a community garden. But hey, what about finding local garden bloggers? Not even a mention of them in the nearly 100 comments, as far as I can tell. (Admittedly, I can’t figure out how to add a comment, so maybe other garden bloggers have the same problem.) I do know that Blotanical offers a great search feature on its home page, with country links (just below the main row of tabs at the top) that bring up maps of garden bloggers’ locations all over the globe, so there’s no excuse for saying that you can’t find great sources of local information on the Web.
Back at ireport.com itself, I see there’s a “victory garden” tag with dozens of posts, so maybe that old term isn’t so outdated after all. Want to share the story or video of your veggie garden there? (Hey, maybe CNN will find you too.) Here’s a link to the Victory Garden section. Looking for inspiration for adding edibles to your own garden? Check out our previous Garden Bloggers Design Workshop on Incorporating Edibles here and here.
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