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A few days ago I asked the question: Who are the most influential garden bloggers?

Thanks to everyone who commented here, by email and at my gardening column on Examiner.

The results are in. You can read them here.

Robin

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Who do you consider the most influential garden bloggers?

I am writing a column for Examiner and need your input.

So what do I mean by influential? Well, you tell me. Perhaps it is someone whose blog you ALWAYS read. Perhaps it is someone who changes the way you think or practice about gardening.  Or maybe it’s someone who influenced you in just a single, major way.

Please let me know. And please pass along the request or include in your own blog, linking here.

You can email me at gardeningexaminer@gmail.com, comment here or use the comment form here on my blog. I need your input by Friday, January 30. My column will appear the following week with your comments and links to your own blogs.

So, who’s most influential among garden bloggers?

You can also visit here and leave your comment directly at Examiner.com.

Robin

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Sometimes it just feels as if I’m on a downhill runaway train!

So if it seems that I have been ignoring my Bumblebee Blog here, it’s not because I haven’t been thinking about it.

As some of my friends know, I am now writing a garden column at Examiner.com, the growing national news service. Learning the Examiner process, developing my editorial calendar and identifying sources and resources has taken time. Little things such as work (I have a job!), other writing projects, family vacations, house guests, family emergencies and nearly cutting off my finger with my uber-sharp Felco pruners–twice–have also been major time suckers.

But the flowers and veggies here at Bumblebee continue to grow, as do the weeds. In fact, I’m still trying to get back on top of the weeds that sought world domination while I had the nerve to go on a week-long family vacation.

In the Colonial theme garden, where I do my most intensive gardening, I decided to experiment with some new veggies this year, including tomatillos, blackeyed peas and a wider variety of heirloom tomatoes, including Paul Robeson, Black Sara, Goose Creek and Cherokee Purple. I’m also growing pattypan and crookneck squash, malabar spinach, strawberries, all kinds of peppers and herbs.

I’m happy with the decision to add more flowers in containers in the theme garden. They add more color than I can squeeze into the beds and it also forces me to head out with the water hose every day since container plants dry out so quickly.

I have started another garden area that we are currently calling the North Garden. It used to be the Poop Garden because that’s where our old dog Winifred used to, well, you know. Winifred has been gone for a few years now, so I figure it’s safe to expand our vegetable growing in a spot that she used for her own production.

Frankly, I’m still struggling with the organization and plant content of the North Garden, so I’m not really ready to post photos. But I will before the end of summer, if only so you can shake your heads and feel sad for how miserably I’ve failed.

Now that I’m writing a column over at Examiner, my posts here in Bumblebee will be largely confined to my own personal gardening and interests. The Examiner column will feature commentary, news, shopping resources, love links to interesting stuff on the Internet, interviews and reviews of products and books.

Thanks for visiting. Drop me a line or comment and let me know how your garden is doing.

Ciao!

Robin

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