Gabrielle the Gardening Angel: Catching Up

Friday, September 30, 2011

Catching Up

I'm bad. Haven't posted, and haven't been keeping up with the garden. It's a jungle out there. Anyway, I did a bit of gardening today. I transplanted this lavender that I had had growing dramatically out of a sewer pipe.

It was pretty tricky getting it out of there, even though it was in there for just one season. I dug a deep hole for it to live. I think having its roots truly underground will be better for it and it'll get to expand more.

I found this corn salad growing in my sidewalk

As well as this lettuce.

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Hi! I'm Gabrielle Marsden

Yes, that lady holding a leek is me. I want you to think about how lovely leeks are and how lovely some leeks would look in your front yard.

I'm serious.

I'm telling you, you will be the envy of your neighbors. Look at my pictures, read my words and maybe you'll agree.

Am I writing a book here? Maybe. I'd like this blog to
1) inform what customers I have already.
2) maybe get me more customers that want what I REALLY want to offer.
3) inform people who are considering doing something different with their yard.

Books/Authors

A few authors that have influenced me with links within this blog where I mention them, hopefully in depth.

Joy Larkcom Michael Pollan Rosalind Creasy Rose Marie Nichols Magee Geri Harrington Edward C. Smith Susan Campbell

I will try to talk at length about why I like these people. A few are sort of obscure. Otherwise, Amazon, with a few exceptions, is probably the best source of info about these writers, at least what they've written about. I haven't exactly stuck to the paragraph above but I thought I'd link to some blogs written by some of these authors as I find them.

Rose Marie Nichols Magee

Michael Pollan

Supplies

I endorse these companies. I feel compelled to state that these are my personal choices here and have no direct association with the advertisement on this blog. I am receiving no compensation from these, I just like their products.

...ONLINE...

Nichols Garden Nursery

I love getting their catalog every fall. Rose Marie Nichols Magee writes all the descriptions of their herbs and seeds that remind me of being at a nursery with a very knowledgeable and friendly person helping you as you shop. I love this lady!

Peaceful Valley Farm Supply

This is a good organic supply company, the real mccoy.

Mountain Valley Growers

mostly live plants, the best packed I have bought. Excellent selection of herbs, butterfly bushes, just great stuff for very cheap. Look for their specials.

CSP Outdoors

I get hardware here as well as poison ivy prevention stuff. Great selection of Felco pruners. I am left handed and can never find them in stores. Also the cheapest I have seen

...LOCAL...

Home Depot, Lowes located all over town

Michael Bros Nursery 47 Michael Road Cheswick

Garden Dreams 812 Holland Avenue , Wilkinsburg

McTighe's Garden Center RR 8, Glenshaw

Pittsburgh Farmer's Markets all over town - This sounds weird but you can get gardening stuff at the farmer's market. I've bought bales of straw, compressed chicken shit pellets to fertilize, many fine herbs, and vegetable plants. You can also get garlic bulbs to plant too.

Trader Joe's - hey, it's a chain, one location in Pittsburgh at Eastside Village -This place has a lot of weird herbs at reasonable prices. The selection is pretty erratic but I always check it out.

I buy lots of stuff from all of these companies. I have links for my online sources but not the local ones. Some of these places do have websites but as I posted this info I checked them out and these local websites aren't that great.

I think I oughta write a blog for each of these companies, except perhaps Home Depot or any other big box store, I mean you guys all know these right?

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