If you love gardening, it's fun to share stories and read about other gardeners' triumphs and tribulations. It helps put one's own gardening experiences in perspective. A problem with reading gardening blogs, though, is that it matters where the gardener actually gardens. Plants that grow well in North Carolina may not do well or even survive here in Rhode Island. Hence the importance of LOCAL gardening blogs.
Rhode Island has several growing zones, so even local RI blogs can be misleading. If you live in Burrillville, vegetables will ripen and flowers will bloom a bit later than in Bristol. But if you live in Bristol, it would be helpful to read the Blithewold blog -- their garden is just down the road from you.
Several relevant sites will come up on a web search for "Rhode Island gardening blogs," but that approach will miss some of them. That's why I [created the RI Feeds website], and added feeds about gardening to ProvGardener.com ~ to collect specifically local information about gardening and other environmental topics.
[In July 2013], there are posts from the Projo Garden Blog, Digging Rhode Island, Southside Community Land Trust, Sustainable Living Examiner, Blithewold Garden Blog, Ledges and Gardens, Newport Restoration, URI Botanical Garden Blog, and the Fox Point Community Garden. Click through to view the posts on their home site, and you will usually see beautiful photographs. If you subscribe to the gardening category, these posts will automatically come into your eReader or email. Or you can just read them here on ProvGardener. As I find more local gardening blogs, I'll add those new ones also.
Do you know about a local garden blog to add to RI Feeds? Please let me know!
[Originally published on Jul 26, 2013, on What Grows On in RI. Updated references to feeds on Feb 16, 2015. Out of date info is in brackets. The original RI Feeds website will be going away later in 2015.]