There is a new very interesting looking Australian blog called Bare Bones Gardening.
It’s all about gardening without spending money, something along the lines of what I posted about a few days ago and have advocated many times in past posts. Also included in the scope of this blog is gardening with disabilities.
Recent posts on Bare Bones Gardening have included things like recycled paper jiffy pots, repairing garden hose, free mulch and compost and compostable garden planters.
He also recently posted about Ruth Stout and Esther Deans no-till garden methods. I’m more familiar with Ruth Stout who in the 60s and 70s, in the US, championed what we might now call organic gardening. The idea of organic gardening didn’t exist then because the widespread use of chemicals in agriculture was still too new. She was one of the first people to advocate natural gardening methods, and still has a large following of people who believe in these today. Me included!
Bare Bones Gardening has been around for about 2 months now, and has 48 posts. That’s almost one post a day! All of these posts are well thought out and full of interesting material. This is definitely a blog to add to your bookmarks or RSS feeds.
thanks guys, hopefully I can live up that sort of promo, lol. And hopefully we can continue to help each other
Thanks for stopping by and leaving the comments. Best of luck with your blog, and I’m looking forward to following along!
With all due respect to Ruth Stout, J Rodale started his Organic Gardening magazine in 1942…she became a writer for his magazine in 195o something….
Thanks for the link to the new blog, I am off to read more!
I guess I stand corrected, I don’t really know my gardening history very well… In any case, Ruth Stout is the one who got all the fame and glory, at least here in Europe where she holds a bit of a cult status especially in central Europe and Scandinavia.
Pat was only quoting off me. And I was only stating who I thought of as my mentors, as in who influenced me off with organic gardening.
It was never meant as a thesis on who was responsible for starting organic gardening off.
Nor was I around in the 1940’s to be reading that particular publications. But I was around and reading in the 1970’s and 80’s. And the informatiin that I was getting then was from gardeners like Deans and Stout
Hey Pat, following our discussion over on my blog check out the link at top right of my blog.. If you wouldn’t mind…..