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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

You Grow Girl and The Science of Gardening

While surfing around for gardening sites, I found this great site called You Grow Girl. The site is speech friendly, and is packed with information.

First of all this site has great forums. Take your time there if you enjoy the forum community. Other sections include Grow, Garden, Explore, Play, Use, and Journals.

  • Grow - This is where you will learn about plants and how to care for them. You will find articles on plant care information, seeds and propagation, featured plants, bulbs, tubers, & corms, save your, and good bugs/bad bugs.

  • Garden - this is where you find the heart and soul of gardening, not to mention a ton of great Do It Yourself gardening tips. Here you will learn about composting, planting tips, tools, and preparation.

  • Explore - learn about new plants, hey, you may find something you want to add to your garden.

  • Play - This is where some fun stuff is hiding! You'll find wallpapers, art, e-cards and much, much more.

  • Use - Learn uses for the herbs, vegetables, and flowers that you plant. This section is filled with recipes.

  • Journals - read journals of other gardeners, and share in their triumphs and disasters.

This is a great gardening site, that will have you coming back regularly as your garden grows.
You Grow Girl http://www.yougrowgirl.com

The Science of Gardening

This site is cool. Not just because of the videos, but because you really do learn the science of gardening.

Feed - This section has two videos: one about how carnivorous plants work and one about a garden in California and compost tea. They are both really interesting; you won't be disappointed. This section also contains the interactive area called Garden Variety about the history of food and an article called The Dirt on Dirt.

Control - This section also has two videos: one on subzero gardening and one on competitive growing. Both were pretty interesting, especially the Subzero Gardening video about hydroponics and get to see a garden in Antarctica. There are also two photo essays: Garden Lore talks about strange remedies and A Truckload of Pumpkins is full of pictures from Half Moon Festival and information on how they grew those giant pumpkins. This section also tells you all about saving seeds and how to make hybrid plants.

Bloom - This section has my favorite video, a Little Patch of Dirt. A community in San Francisco decided to turn a median into a garden. The government is now providing this great community project with free water. There are also two interactive sections. The Secret Lives of Flowers teaches you all about flowers from their parts to what kinds of animals they attract. Hello Dahlia is a great section that tells you all about this very versatile flower.

Exploring all of this great site's goodies took up most of my morning. I can't believe that I learned so much more about gardening.

Click this link to learn The Science of Gardening: http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/index.html.

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