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May 31, 2006

New garden blogs -- and 'Hold On Little Tomato,' the lounge song

Adventures in my Urban Garden: Another East Coast gardener at last. (Yes, we're coming alive again in New England, where the weather is just perfect now.) And, from the photo above, it looks as though this garden is a plot in a community garden.

"Black Eyed Susan" leads today with a photo of a box of yellow cornmeal and the headline, "I hate cutworms!" -- then details her personal war against them.

(I can't wait to watch her war against tomato hornworms, the giant dragons of the garden world. You'll find that and other critters on this nice bugs page.)

Jardin ology is a UK blog with lovely photos, Latin plant names and even garden music. First, a nod to the first two:

For sheer 'wow factor' I think my favourite plant in the garden would have to be Cynara Cardunculus 'Cardy'.

A cousin of the globe artichoke, it works really hard year-round to earn its statuesque place in my herbaceous border...

Heard "Hang On Little Tomato"? I hadn't either, but gardener "Jardine" is playing the Pink Martini album of the same name today. The 10-member lounge group from Portland, Ore., based the song on a 1964 Hunt's ketchup ad that urged the tomato to hang on the vine till it's ripe.

You can hear the song and a few others at NPR (Shaken and Stirred by the Music of Pink Martini), which profiled the group.

The Grape Vine: Alexis in Richmond, Va. has just started this blog. Usually, I wait to see if there'll be a second post, but since Alexis posted a photo and wrote., "(we still have 10 years worth of peppers, from these two plants, frozen from last year)," I want to encourage her to tell us how she does this.

All have been added to the evergreen Garden Blogs list.

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