Botanica Atlanta Landscape Design

Pardon the pun but it's true. According to a survey conducted by the Garden Writers Association Foundation in November 2009, over 41 million households grew a vegetable garden, 19.5 million grew an herb garden and 16.5 million grew fruits during 2009.  Not only is this 7.7 million more households than previously but 37% of experienced gardeners have planned to increase their edible gardens this year - the majority of those reporting - while another 29% have planned to maintain the same-size gardening plot.  First-time edibles gardeners came mostly from the South, as did the more experiened edibles gardeners.

Gardeners named web sites as the number 2 source of gardening information, up from the number 5 slot a year ago.  As a source of information about gardening, the internet was most popular in the South.

Here's some inspirational video to get you thinking about the possibilities this spring:

Statistics courtesy of the Garden Writers Association.

Author: Cloud Conrad