Calling all fellow gardeners!
Hello all!
I’m Karen Hager. I write the “Down to Earth” gardening column for The Roanoke Times. My column runs every other Saturday in the Extra section, but starting this week you can check out this blog for lots more gardening talk and tips.
If you love to garden, or dream of some day becoming a gardener, this blog is for you. We’re starting to head into the busy time for all of us who garden, so it’s the perfect time to be launching this blog.
Every gardener I know loves to talk about gardening and is willing to share what they know with others. From newbie to experienced gardener, we want to hear from you. Ask a question or post a comment. Let’s get this conversation growing!
April 15, 2012 - 10:15 PM
I’m so excited that Kevin Myatt linked to your page! This is my first year trying to raise my own garden, so I’ll need all the help I can get LOL
Welcome! I’m bookmarking the blog since I do a little bit of gardening myself, of several kinds. We have a vegetable and harb garden, plus I also do a little bit of landscape gardening…mostly trees and shrubs now, but working to add in more perennial flowers and eventually some annuals too.
A couple quick comments on the blog technicals…can you please allow the site to be viewed as a mobile website? I tried looking on my phone and the page either takes a terribly long time to load the full page (which is difficult to use on my BB), or it simply won’t load at all.
And, can you talk to the website gurus to get your blog added to the main blog index list: http://www.roanoke.com/blogs/wb/xp-index
That would make it much easier to find if we don’t have it bookmarked! Thanks!
I’ll pass this on.
I just heard back that they are working on mobile accessibility and a link from the blog page, so should be available soon.
Great! Thanks for the follow-up.
This is my first year gardening, and I’m already learning a lot. My neighbor asked if he could use some of the female flowers of our zucchini and squash plants to cook with. If I cut them off before they fell off the plants themselves, would we ruin our chance of having fully-grown and yummy zucchini and squash?
Cook with the male flowers, not the female. The female will turn into a squash; the male are just there for fertilization. Watch for bees when you pick them, because they like to hang out in the flowers.