PlanGarden Software (#9) helps you lay out a virtual herb or vegetable garden before you plant
Want to know how to grow the most beautiful Irises? The best time to plant vegetables? Unusual recycled objects for container gardening? No problem. We have Twitter’s top 10 gardening experts. They tweet about all of this plus more that can help you achieve a garden that will make all the neighbors green with envy.
What unusual gardening tips have you read about on Twitter?
Leave us a comment below. Here’s our picks:
1. Garden Advice gives you advice on simple topics or specific topics such as stopping weeds from growing or growing potatoes in tires! They’ll tell you about whimsical gardens, zone gardening (what to grow in your zone and when) and edible gardening (our favorite kind).
2. Mini Garden is our second top tweeter because they teach us all we need to know about container gardening, like growing a salad garden on your deck. They also believe in hydroponics and attracting ladybugs to your garden.
3. We couldn’t find a MisterNatural1 so we think MisterNatural2 is being modest. Nonetheless, he’s our pick for the number three spot on our list. If you follow him on Twitter, you’ll see he likes to tweet about organic farming, seeds, natural gardening, organic food. Some of its tweets have been on topics like do-it-yourself experimental water fuel systems, organic gardening, and even tips on how to grow peppers.
4. Growwit falls under our number four pick of our top ten tweeters list. They like to teach you about green things, like gardens, grass, and indoor plants. Currently there’s a great blog post listing favorite herbs suggestions other green thumbers think @Growwit should plant to replace ones sent to the Eternal Land of Compost. Favorites listed were rosemary, chocolate mint, fresh cilantro, lemongrass, stevia, garlic chives, epazote, tarragon, fennel, chamomile, dill and sage.
5. If you’re into more of a western style, Sunset Mag is in the number five spot. It is a premier resource for achieving the ultimate Western lifestyle. Their experts focus on travel destinations in the 13 Western states, home design and outdoor living ideas suited to that region, and recipes and menus that celebrate the American West.
6. We haven’t published all our gardening articles for the season yet, so we’re ranking our own Improve Your Home site in sixth position. But stay tuned for great articles coming up on Flip-Flop Pots and making your own starter seed pots from recycled newspapers.
7. All students need to be scientifically literate. But too often students sit at their desks and learn about habitats and ecosystems thousands of miles away, while their schoolyard features a barren landscape of mown grass or asphalt. Woodard Gardens‘ mission is to teach science through hands-on experience. This is a great organization to lend support to with your Twitter follow.
8. Want to learn more about finding joy in life through planting and gardening? Go to our eighth pick, Plant Web
9. PlanGarden makes web-based software tools exclusively for vegetable and herb gardeners who want to say goodbye to graph paper and colored pencils. With PlanGarden, you quickly plan, design and lay out your “virtual garden” first, and then find out the right time to plant your veggies, and track gardening activities and harvests. PlanGarden is fun to use and is available as a widget to share with friends on your blog or Web site!
10. Finally, the number ten spot goes to Garden Know How who lets you ask your planting and gardening questions and get an answer from a team of expert gardeners. And being on Twitter, that’s almost instant feedback!
Thanks for reading this edition of our top ten tweeter list for gardening. Go here if you missed our article on the top ten home improvement tweeters. And please leave us a comment on the best gardening tips and tweeters you’ve found.
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Great article and tips! I have an incredibly black thumb, hope to learn some more from these people
Great article! Rich with good info!
Great list!!! Thank you. I would add one more to the list: @BHGGarden Great information for gardeners.
Great list of gardening people on Twitter. I want to suggest http://www.twitter.com/natlgardenclubs. This is the largest volunteer gardening organization in the US. Keep up the good work!