Your Garden Still Grows While You're On Vacation!

I am back from our mini vacation where we shot off many fireworks, ate out a lot, watched some movies, went to a museum and an aquarium, and went boating and fishing on the lake!

Isn't it amazing how your garden seems to grow faster than usual when you leave it for a few days? Wow! Everything got bigger. Just before vacation I made some big changes to my original garden plans and finally planted my pumpkins, cucumbers and more green beans. I will write more about that in my next post.

This post is just to let you know that I'm still here - I'm not stuck on the 4th of July. I also want to direct your attention to a post from Stuart at Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas, although most of you have probably already seen it (unless you have been on vacation too). Stuart named his top 14 bloggers to watch, and somehow I made the list. What an honor! I think it was more for my work with Veggie Garden Info than with Garden Desk, but either way - thank you Stuart!

I have just put many posts on Veggie Garden Info to get us caught up from my vacation. Now I have to get Garden Desk caught up!

The garden may take care of itself while you are away, but your blogs sure don't!

Happy Gardening - I'll be back soon!

Introducing Veggie Garden Info!

And there are many other great blogs (better than Garden Desk) featured there as well.

So what is VeggieGardenInfo.com? I'm glad you asked!

I have been blogging here at Garden Desk for over a year now, and reading good garden blogs for several years. I enjoy reading about all aspects of gardening, but vegetable and fruit gardening are my favorites.

This Spring there were hundreds of great gardening posts, but I would many times have to search to find the entries about vegetables. Maybe I'm the only one who enjoys vegetable gardening more than other types of gardening, but if you are like me then you will love VeggieGardenInfo.com!

Veggie Garden Info is a site that I started with a little help from my friends that highlights the blogs, blog posts and Internet articles about Veggie gardening and topics related to veggie gardening.

The site has only been live for two weeks, and we are on a role! The contributors are great! We have already had to expand the topics to include any kind of "edible gardening" which includes veggies, fruit, herbs, cooking and more.

I've rambled here long enough. You should check out Veggie Garden Info for yourself! Let us know if YOU would like to participate or if you have any ideas to make the site better. It truly is for all gardeners, garden bloggers and Garden blog readers.

The post below this one contains buttons and banners that you can use to link to Veggie Garden Info.

After this post, I won't be mentioning Veggie Garden Info any more here on Garden Desk. I have to get back to blogging about all the things going on in my garden, and there is a lot going on! We finally had some rain and everything is growing like a weed (especially the weeds)!

So thank you for allowing me time for this commercial break.

Thanks, and Happy gardening!

Veggie Garden Info Banners

As you probably already know, I have been working with VeggieGardenInfo.com. It is going very well thanks to all of the support from our contributers. Since Veggie it is a new site however, we are having some CSS and JavaScript difficulties. We have created some buttons for featured bloggers and fans to post on their sites, but we are unable to get them to work properly.

So the temporary fix is for me to share them with you here on Garden Desk! The first two are for you to use if you have had an article or post appear on VeggieGardenInfo.

The last two are for anyone to use who has a blog or site and wants to help us with promotion. Let us know if you put one of these buttons on your site but you don't have a veggie article to submit. We can still work out a link to your site or blog if you would like.

So here goes.
In each case, copy the code below the button and paste it in your sidebar or post.

Use this one if you have contributed to the site:

<div align="center"><a href="http://veggiegardeninfo.com"><img src="http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa274/VeggieGardenInfo/featured.jpg" border="0"></a></div><br />

Use this one only in a post or header. It is too large for a sidebar.

<div align="center"><a href="http://veggiegardeninfo.com"><img src="http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa274/VeggieGardenInfo/featured2.jpg" border="0"></a></div><br />

The next two are for anyone and can be used in the sidebar or anywhere.

<div align="center"><a href="http://veggiegardeninfo.com"><img src="http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa274/VeggieGardenInfo/plainVGI.jpg" border="0"></a></div><br />

This next one is my favorite!

<div align="center"><a href="http://veggiegardeninfo.com"><img src="http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa274/VeggieGardenInfo/HeartVGI.jpg" border="0"></a></div><br />

Thank you to all who use these banners. If you would like to be linked from Veggie Garden Info by contributing a blog article, leave a comment below or visit the Suggest a Veggie Article page on VeggieGardenInfo.com.

Thanks, and happy gardening!