In the Garden with Pat Rubin

Bee garden writer Pat Rubin writes about everything that grows, from flowers and trees to vegetables and lawns. Pat volunteered for several years as a Placer County Master Gardener and has written about gardening for many national and regional publications. In addition to gardening, she spends time raising and showing miniature horses and miniature donkeys.

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July 31, 2007

The Daily Dirt

Each weekday I get an email from the Daily Dirt, a garden blog/email reminder written by Heleigh Bostwick. I don’t know who Bostwick is, or where she gardens. I don’t know what her family is like, or whether she works elsewhere.

But her daily garden email is a gentle reminder for me. Some days it tells me what chores I ought to be doing in the garden. Some days it tells me about new products, or teaches me about new plants, many of them Bostwick’s favorites. One day she might talk about foliage in the garden, then give readers the names of books on the subject. She’s covered edible flowers, her favorite gardening tools, turning hydrangea flowers blue, and summer gardening chores. Sometimes she holds my rapt attention, while other times I look at the subject line and deleted the email. But I always check.

Bostwick is dedicated to making gardens and the world greener and has links to all sorts of interesting sites. If you have room for one more email five days a week that might just inspire you to try a new plant or make you a better gardener, try Bostwick’s garden guide, the Daily Dirt.

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