Blue Ridge Gardener

Here’s a website you should see if you haven’t already.  A comprehenive website from North Carolina State University:

Sustainable Practices for Vegetable Production in the South

It has a great collection of articles and link to other websites.

I have found Joe Lampl’s Compost Confidential blog very readable and I try to keep up with his exploits since he is another North Carolinian.

Here is Episode 9 from JoeGardener’s $25 dollar Victory Garden experiment:

More from JoeGardener.com…

Here’s the post on Compost Confidential

Some of my regular readers know that I also blog at Ray’s Weather Center under the title “The Garden Slug”.

Ray’s Weather Center has been the most accurate reporting of weather events that I have found in the mountains.  There is a reason for that.  One of there weather stations is located on the roof of Mast General Store in Waynesville, which is less than a half-mile due South from my property in downtown.

My thermometer has a little variance at times because I am in the valley, but my rain gauge is almost exactly the same, and nearly every other measurement is dead on.  Ray’s Weather Center is focused completely on the mountain region of North Carolina and they have been quite effective with forecasts of weather events.

The Garden Slug is usually a digest of stuff I have been writing about on Blue Ridge Gardener, but it is a way of reaching another audience and expanding the readership of this blog.

I hope you find both resources useful–pass the word.