Red, White and Grow wants to rev up existing Victory Gardening chat online a bit more.
"We can build greater interest and demand for Victory Gardening in our own communities if we work collaboratively. By replicating a Victory Garden/fall harvest meme, we can use or blogs to engage in some serious social entrepreneurism. By writing about vegetable gardening in a particular way--united around a particular set of principles (gardening for ourselves, our pocketbooks and the planet), we'll be fueling interest in our online and real world communities."
1.) What are your favorite local sources (ex. nurseries, blogs, reliable regional "celebrity" gardeners, county/parish extension office)? In my area of Kentucky, I get organic seeds from Southern States. DanyaBrook is a local nursery that I can get locally grown veggie seedlings.
2.)What are your favorite books and magazines? Organic Gardening, Herb Companion, and Mother Earth News are my favorite gardening mags. As for books, I love all the gardening books by Sharon Lovejoy: Sunflower Houses, Hollyhock Days, and Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots.
3.)What have you had success with growing in your fall garden? Peas, green Roma beans, cabbage and salad mix (different types of lettuces).
4.)When do you plant and harvest it? I typically plant the first few weeks in August and continue to harvest through Thanksgiving, sometimes even later.
5.)What is your favorite gardening tip? Use garden waste from summer garden to mulch around plants in the fall garden.
6.)Why do you call your garden a _________ (Victory Garden, Peace Garden, Freedom Garden, vegetable garden...etc.)? Mine is a veggie garden and I call it that mainly because I grow vegetables; but I do have several varieties of fruits and berries I grow as well.
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I think blogs are the way to inspire people to grow vegetables and think about living a greener life. It is amazing how I feel part of a community of a whole lot of bloggers, from every corner of the earth, telling the story of their food gardens, their thoughts and their insights. Keep it up Bobbi and thanks for dropping by my blog and leaving comments from time to time.
Thank you Bobbi for your encouragement, I appreciate it.
Lets the keep the work up. After all our effort is what counts, as forthe results, we have to surrender to the Universe
Thanks for putting this site together. I also feel that gardens are important. I started my first garden this year (hooray) and am loving it. I love having fresh veggies. I have also found that by having my own veggie garden my grocery bills are a lot less these days (I am not having to buy all of the expensive produce that I used to buy in the stores).
Thanks, Mrs. G.
I added your name to list of people participating in spreading the meme!
Oops, forgot the link: http://www.redwhiteandgrew.com/replicate
Your blog is so interesting. I have to say that it is one of my inspirations!
Our vegetable garden is called the kitchen garden
Great post. It's great that others are getting on board for this Victory Garden MEME. I am container gardening my veggies this year, but next year I want a designated veggie bed. I'm considering the square foot gardening approach.
I have gotten organic seeds from my local Whole Foods or garden stores, but here in SE US apparently Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is great (http://www.southernexposure.com/index.html) so I want to check it out. The farmers markets around here often have a better selection of local/organic seedlings than the nurseries but even Home Despot is starting to catch on to local seedlings.
I love Sharon Lovejoy too! Also square foot gardening book.
3 and 4 just starting this year to have fall garden/early spring crops - appreciate any and all advice!
Fave gardening tip? I'm a novice, really, but my best encouragement for the last 5 years has been the voice of my friend Emily urging, "Just get something in the ground!" I tend to be an overplanner....
I call our garden a veggie garden or our community garden plot. It's actually inspected to make sure we have at least 80% vegetables - these gardens have been going since WW2 and the original legislation is still in effect (they've been organic for at least 30 years, as far as I know).
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