Happy New Year Everyone!
I look forward to spending the year with you!
It is a fresh, new year and I have hopes that this will be the best gardening year ever! As I am looking forward, I am also looking back and reflecting on what I learned while garden blogging this year…
Remember when I wrote that Dear John letter to my lemon tree for fraternizing with the tree down the road? I learned that apparently my tree reads! After I wrote the letter, it immediately changed its ways and is currently covered in fruit!
Based on the emails and twitters I received, I discovered that other gardeners enjoy the same handy hints I do: seaweed as fertilizer, Ben-Gay to repel snails and boiling weeds.
I learned that fellow gardeners really enjoy virtual tours of other people’s gardens. It is like bringing along a friend on a field trip!
The Garden Writer’s Garden Tours in Portland: Nancyland, Urban Edibles, Laughing Spirit, Lucy Hardiman were big hits.
The Huntington Botanical Garden with it’s letterbox was fun.
And a private garden in Los Angles …
that featured garage sale finds got the largest response from Twitter readers. We will be visiting that garden again in the spring.
This year, I was almost eaten by a nasturtium ….
and but still managed to learn Eight Life Lessons while gardening, so I suppose it was a good year overall.
But surprisingly, the post which received the most readers on my blog this year was….
Give That Bulb A Martini!
Go figure!
Have a wonderful start to 2009 everyone…I look forward to spending the year with you!
About the Author
Theresa Loe blogs here about taking the garden full circle while striving for a more local, fresh-from-the-garden lifestyle. She is a TV producer, video host, freelance garden writer and a wrangler of chickens and children. (Not necessarily in that order.) For more information on these topics, you can subscribe to her free monthly newsletter.
Theresa Loe is the award- winning Co-Executive Producer & Canning Expert on Growing A Greener World TV. She blogs here about Living Homegrown®, local and fresh-from-the-garden. 
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I wonder if our fruit trees will read my letters because I have a Key lime and an orange tree that needs some butt-kicking.
Hey Teresa – It worked for me! Write that letter and give it a try. Something about being threatened makes the tree take notice!
LOL…I’ll try it! Our orange tree finally gave us one lousy fruit last year, after we’ve had it for about 7 years.
add more plants and put out food for them