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Here's What Readers Have Said About The Newsletter

by Doug
(My Garden)

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New Reader
by: Anonymous

Hello
Thank you for such a great site. I've been reading the on-line courses which are very good, and am working my way through the rest of your postings. I should add that, tho a relatively new gardener myself, I very much appreciate your approach to gardening in general. Thank you again.
Sub. Link
by: Anonymous

I am trying to subscribe to your newsletter but the link is not working....are you still doing it?
Great information!
by: mpdargan

Thx Doug, for putting this wonderful, holistic newsletter and site together. It always amazes me what is here for any level of gardener. Cheers, mp
Your Newsletter
by: wkeithscott

I quite enjoy the newsletter, and amazed at all the lovely/positive comments from afar. It's an real Joy, sense an sharing, and appreciation by all these folks...that seem like neighbours.
Indeed have something in 'common', with an master helpful gardener, all 'this' an not even on an 'fee simple basis'.
Doug, 'we need you', most appreciated....all stay on board.....pls.
Semi-retirement, ughhhh! Been there done that.
Enjoy your newsletter
by: Anonymous

I found your website doing a search on straw bale gardening and find the info very on target and look forward to reading more. Thank you.
WE APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION
by: HILDA

WE WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR FUTURE WITH PRINCESS. AS WE ALL KNOW THERE IS AN AMAZING WOMAN BEHIND THIS GREAT MAN!
THANK YOU!
Gardeniiiing at work
by: T. Musarra

Dear Doug,
I joined your newsletter as I work in aged care and we are starting up next week a raised garden beds for our wheel chair residents and I am looking forward to your newsletter as i will be discussing what we are going to plant and the involvment and the benifits that the residents will gain from this activity.
Trish
my garden your tips
by: steve

hi doug well i have been reading your articles for about 3 weeks now and i just want to say i have found alot of what you have been saying in your articles have been real helpful when it comes to my garden and your tips have been great , and so i want to say thanks and keep it coming steve
Beginner
by: Mary

As a beginner gardener w/a small yard. I have been reading everything on your site. I got your ebook on Intensive Gardening and have been reading and hopefully learning, so that when spring comes again I will be more prepared to get the best out of my small space. Thanks for all your help.
Not Enough Time
by: Camille Tinling

Doug,

I am an avid gardener who has just moved form Sacramento to the North Coast of California -- a big change of climate!

I think your site is terrific. I just wish I had more time to peruse it! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and ideas.
good site
by: MagVee

I'm a newby to the site and to gardening. I still hava a lot to learn. I like the no nonsense aproach of the site - it's short and to the point. Thanks!
Waiting for the spring
by: Nina

Hi Doug,
I hope to become more active member of your group after I start working in my garden next spring. We have nice yard but it is neglected and I hope to use some of the ideas found in your newspaper very soon.

All the best from covered with the snow Chicago, Nina
Glad I found your website
by: marcia

I found you one day looking up daffidills,and when to plant in this area.. and found myself adding you first to favorites then to your news letter's. You taught me alot.. so far about what I've been planting. I'm resently become disabled.. and gardening has become my passion..thing is I'm in a apartment complex, but..I'm filling all flower beds with flower's as well as produce. Thanks keep up the good work you do!
Refreshing
by: D. Hagar

Love your no nonsince approch and candor in Q and A
daisymay
by: Anonymous

Hi All, this is the best Garden Newsletter on the Web. You have helped me several times. Especially with green Pestcontral advise. Keep up the good Work and Merry, Merry Xmas!!!!!
So happy!
by: Karla

Some how I stumbled onto this website and I am so happy! I am somewhat computer challenged so it was not planned. I have always been interested in flower gardening, but it has only been the last 10 years
that I have lived where it could be a reality. I have become an obsessed gardener. I am 76 and give thanks every year that I am able to do this. Your web site is the best. Thank you soooo much.
thanks
by: gramma audrey

After raising six children and they are all gone now. Now I can do my thing and that is in the garden I am so thankful to you for sharing the information you send to me. I reside in Pgh, Pa.
Love it!
by: Colo Girl

So far all I see is great, experienced, to the point information on the major seasonal gardening issues. Thank you!
Dirty hands and good food...
by: John

Greetings Doug...

I have, so far, enjoyed your newsletters and look forward to seeing more of them. I live near Oscoda, Michigan and it's nice to hear from someone who has to deal with the weather anomolies in the cold climates of our northern areas. Most of the other similar sites/people tend to be in much warmer areas and, while I still read their material, it has to be modified to adjust to our weather and shorter growing season.

I am a life long gardener, having started in the 50's as a lad on our farm. One of my first jobs there (at around age 4) was working (pulling weeds--yuk) in our cash crop gardens. We had a veggie garden of about 2 acre where we grew assorted veggies, and another area of about 2 acres that we alternated with sweet corn 1 year and potatoes the next. I remember, after I got to about age 8, during the harvest season my younger sister and I would rise at daybreak, pack up PB&J sandwiches, and load a hay wagon with fresh picked veggies and pull it with an old John Deere LA (thats the little baby one) about 2 miles to the main highway and spend the entire day there selling veggies on the roadside and taking orders for the next day. This is unheard of today, of course, with the demise of the morality of todays peoples and the chance of being robbed or worse.

For the last several years I lived in Oscoda to be closer to my employment (carpenter/builder). I lived in an apartment downtown, overlooking US 23 where I was the talk of the town with my balcony garden. In an area of 10'x10' I grew sweet corn, 2-3 varieties of tomatoes, beans, peas, carrots, beets and more along with flowers as well; all in container beds that I had built to suit. In this small area, I was able to grow an unbeleivable amount of food and actually was able to give some away to my neighbors there in the apartment complex.

With the recent economy and the total downfall of the home building trades here in Michigan, earlier this year I decided to to take my early retirement and moved out into the country. While I missed the season this year, I look forward with enthusiasim to next years. I will finally be back plying the soil and doing what I love and have missed so much for the last years.

Keep on growing........ John

life is short....enjoy it today..!!
GREAT NEWSLETTER
by: Anonymous

I'M JUST GETTING STARTING WITH GARDENING & FIND YOUR NEWSLETTERS & ALL OF THE COMMENTS VERY INTERESTING,INFORMATIVE & HELPFUL & LOOKING FORWARD TO FUTURE ISSUES & WILL RESPOND WITH MY OWN QUESTIONS AS THEY ARISE
..THANKS AGAIN JOE MCCORMICK
Search
by: Bev in BC

I cannot find a search engine anywhere. I'm afraid I'l miss something.
BEV
WORMS
by: Bev in BC

Why are there very few gardening sites who talk about worms? They are the best friend your garden could have! Their casting (manure) is so rich, plants and seedling thrive in it. Worms help compost the dead roots etc in your garden. The only eat microbes that are present in rotting vegetation. They do not eat plants or bulbs unless the microbes have reduced it to mush. Don't be wary or afraid of them do some reading to understand what a prize they really are. You won't be sorry.
newsletter
by: Don Schramm

Hello, I subscribed recently so only have little experience with your site. So far it has been informative and spot on for my needs, especially the article on pruning apple trees. keep 'em comin'
Love your Newsletter
by: Kathy

Hi
Have gardened for many years and each year is another learning experience. Have learned so much from your newsletter. Thank you for the great job.
Kathy
welcome suggestions
by: Gio'

Hello:
I find your information very interesting even though I do not have a large garden. Actually I prefer to garden in pots when the deer leave anything at all to grow. I appreciate your knowledge and your willingness to take the time to share it.
I am a novice at gardening.
by: Ruth

Hello! I just happen to come upon your site and signed up, I am not a vegetable gardner or have large flower gardens. I do have small ones and enjoy. Your site as well as newsletter is helpful and interesting, I am glad I found your site.
Thank you.
Wisteria
by: Claire

We just moved 3 years ago and the house came with a lovely old Wisteria. I had tried to find info about the tree as it had grown quite wild this year. thanks to your website I finally found the infor I was looking for. The newsletter is great as I am a new gardener and need all the help I can get
enjoy gardening
by: maureen

I do enjoy gardening, but there is so much to learn about the right plant in the right space, your newsletters are very helpful.
I love your website
by: Anonymous

I am new at gardening and I have found your newsletters to be so helpful to me. I love the photos and you make everything so easy to understand. I look forward to reading each news letter and learning many things. Thank you so much.
new subscriber
by: Chris

I am very glad I subscribed, I am trying to build a perennial garden with limited space to draw hummingbirds and butterflies and your website has been very helpful. Thanks
Impressed
by: Karen

As a newcomer to your website I am most impressed. You use everyday language, cover varied topics and the photos are most helpful. Keep up the good work!
Great site
by: Anonymous

Have read all your newsletters saved each one. and look forward to the next. I have lots of questions about gardening and finally I have a site that will actually answer my questions and provide lots of great information.
THANK YOU you are GREAT.
The Best
by: Nancy H

As an avid gardener, I have several gardening sites; yours now is at the top of my list. Thank you so much, Doug, for being here.
new subscriber
by: Anonymous

It has only been a short time since I started receiving you emails. It is a bit overwhelming with all the information at one time, but i have been saving them and now am learning how to find a specific area when I have a question. Great site.
I just have one thing to say...
by: Anonymous

I LOVE YOUR NEWSLETTER!
Need your help:
by: Diane Klein

Dear Doug ,

I found your site because I was struggling to get info on my asparagus plant.
I looked all over the Net....

Never did get your answer or see it on your site.

The plant is growing (I even sent you pictures) for about 2-3 years now.
But no spears. I've cut it back but probably at the wrong time of year.

Can you give me some asparagus plant tips? I love the stuff and want to plant more but I want to handle it correctly.

Thanks, Diane
newsletter
by: cmj

I am a new subscriber and have not yet gone through all the various articles, but I am enjoying and learning from what I see--informative to the point and thanks to everyone.
Newsletter
by: Terry

I am pretty new to subscribing to your newsletter but so far have enjoyed every bit of it. The gardening tips are great and the writing style as someone else commented on, is a pleasure to read! Written with style! Written to the point! I am also in zone 3a (as is another "commentor") and appreciate any information relating to this zone - especially here out on the prairies - Strathmore, Alberta (near Calgary). Thanks again Doug.
new subscriber
by: albert

very good newsletter keep it up
Great garden site
by: Sandi

I am very grateful to your site for all the information that is so easy to access...have spent hours researching....keep up the good work and thank you!
Enjoy the Garden Videos
by: Anonymous

I enjoy your newsletter, I am always interested in what people are doing with their gardens. I really like the videos.
News Letter
by: Trev

Tips & Info in newsletter helpful & interesting, helping me to get the most from my plot.
Thanks
Weed Killer
by: Kenny

I tried the weed killer that was in your news letter and it killed my weeds and grass that i no longer wanted.
beyond good!
by: Anonymous

I am sooo happy I found this site. It is not only clear, easy to navigate, learn with smarts AND humour. Now, if I can learn to grow Watercress in a stream I shall call my life complete!
thank you
by: Rose

yes,your newsletter is very helpful,lots of great information.very useful.
Love the newsletter!
by: nmcp

Thank you for the knowledge sharing.
Thank you!
by: Anonymous

Great newsletter! I've only been receiving it for a short time, but already have learned so much. Any tips on sedums?

THANKS MUCH!!!
Zone 1b from Pink Mountain
by: Colleen

I live at mile 132 on the Alaska Hwy in a very tough growing climate. Zone 1b. By creating micro-climates I can grow some zone 3 plants. This year has been particular frustrating because it has been so cold and up to a couple of weeks ago very dry. I really find the newsletter  very helpful and interesting.  Anything on cold climate gardening is of particular interest.
Awesome newsletter
by: Jen

Very helpful! I'm glad I found this website the whole thing is informational! The newsletters are GREAT! Good Job!
To busy
by: Larry

Hi I live in missouri U.S.A. I have raised bed gardens,,I don't have a well,,so I carry my house water from different places,,I catch rain water for my garden and my critters.
I also use my gray water to water my gardens and to make manure tea out of rabbit and pigeon droppings.
I can't always count on rain.
I like what little I have read on your site,, THIS WINTER i will spend more time exploring it.
your news
by: Anonymous

your tips etc help take the mystery out of gardening and add beauty to our lives. thank you eve
Sensational tips
by: Annelise

Love love love the newsletters. Your tips have helped me so much in regard to tulips and allium. I also just read through dead heading petunias which I am going out to try in my garden right now.
I know I can always get an answer to my gardening questions from the garden master - Doug Green.
Thanks for this invaluable website!!
TY
by: karen

I love your newsletter keep up the good work
karen
Thanks!
by: Anonymous

I am very pleased with your newsletter! Keep them coming! I love the photos.
Thanks for the help!
by: Jane

Research I did through your newsletters has helped! Thank you! I am also enjoying the photos ... I love photography too, and I really appreciate seeing all of the ones on your site.
Doug's Garden Newsletter
by: Anonymous

I find your newsletters very helpful, and easy to understandbecause they're not complicated. Many other sources get into the chemistry(not my favorite subject) of the plants etc. thanks muych for the newsletter.
Thanks!
by: Angelika

I really enjoy reading your gardening tips and the pictures are awesome. Keep up the great work!
Thanks and blessings to you
by: Mary T

Thank you Doug, I enjoy the newsletter and am very thankful for the great info. Bless you for making this available to us.
New subscriber
by: Patricia

GREAT website! You're doing such a wonderful job of educating all, young and old (like me). I look forward to what you have to say each week and always find useful hints to make my gardening experience easier. Thanks.
Thank you for my welcome!
by: Heather

I'm so glad I found your site, Doug. It is put together so well and I have already found answers to a lot of my gardening questions. Next year I hope to enter a photo into your contest. Your hard work makes my work easier! Thank you!
Thanks!
by: Niky

I love your site and newsletter. This is my second year at trying to grow vegetables and I love a site that is based in Ontario. I have you added to my favorites and look forward to your emails!
news letter
by: Faye Ball

I LOVE the news letter and everything about the we site
i am very happy to be on the e mail list

Faye
LOVE IT !
by: MARILYN W

I LOVE THIS NEWSLETTER ! IT IS VERY INFORMATIVE. I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH.
THANKS FOR PUTTING YOUR HEART AND SOUL INTO IT !
Newsletter
by: Anonymous

This is a fabulous site for me a beginning gardner. I love your suggestions and everything has been very informative, interesting and all in all fantastic.
Best thing I ever subscribed to.
ENJOY
by: Anonymous

I HAVE VERY MUCH ENJOYED
info overload
by: Anonymous

For a beginer like myself I find info overload.
Great stuff to read and increase my knowledge but for me, too much at one time. Keep it coming.
Writing Style
by: Julia Williamson

I absolutely adore your writing style. The bluntness (eg. plant thugs) and the humour it evokes gives strength to your descriptions. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
newsltter
by: karen g

hi love the newsletter and the web site. lots of great info. thanks karen g
A truly lovely site
by: Diane McMullen

Have not been using the site long and posed a question and was thrilled to see it was answere straight away, thanks Doug. I find it brilliant to see so many places catered for - me I am in England so very different climate to most the the users but still interesting. Thanks a million Doug.
Good tips!
by: Tom Maier

I learned something from Doug Green right off the bat--to peel off the fiber top of purchased potted plants so the exposed top doesn't act as a wick--drying out the roots (why didn't I think of that?)
corn gluten?
by: Anonymous

Someone mentioned corn gluten. What is it? I just signed up. I know almost nothing about prganic gardening. Bought a house in Northwest Oregon and am landscaping from nothing but grass.
Fantastic newsletter
by: Sandi

Great newsletter!!! Have found so much information on raised bed gardening. We have just moved from Fl. to NC. and found in your newsletter's the best plants and schrubs for our area. Thanks so much.
YOU ARE IT!!!
by: Marguerite

I've been gardening here in New England for 60 years and never had much use for other's advice. YOU ARE A GARDEN HERO to me and I appreciate every weeks newsletter. I also enjoy your blogs. You are a wealth of information and I have incorporated many of them into my own garden. I know most of my friends also subscribe to your newsletter and we chat about it mostly every weekend. THANK YOU
Ab Fab !
by: Peg

I cannot believe this wealth of information and you have made it free to us. I save all your newsletters in a folder in my PC and when it's raining and I can't get out in the flower beds I go back and read your articles and use the links you provide.What a wonderful gift. Thank you so much
Enjoying Your Newsletter
by: Anonymous

Thanks so much Doug for sending me your very interesting and informative news letter. It's easy to find information I am looking for and I eagerly read every word . You devote all of your time to making gardening easier for us all....Thanks...
Newsletters
by: Anonymous

Thank you for your wonderful newsletters and all the infomation on your website. The only thing that disappoints me is that your information seems to be shared by mostly people in the United States in warmer climates than on the Prairies in Canada. Could you add any comments and information about gardening in zone 2b and zone 3 ?
Love it!
by: gunslingerswife

Your newsletter is helping me, a novice gardener, learn more about the basics, as well as more involved horticultural concepts. Your newsletter/site is a great resource for gardeners of any level.
love the site
by: angela

love the site trying companion planting this year and naturas soil enhancers don't worry about deleting it's all good
THE INFO IS THE BEST YET
by: AnonymousCAJUNJOE

I realy like this link . The knowledge you have and the info output buy the member is the greatest I have found . Because of the rocky terrain I live in Alabama I constucted a raise plot . All the info available was fantastic. I built the frame the way I want , so if want to change to a flower garden later I can . Again thank u for all the INF>
trial and error
by: gayle

Thank you so much for this newsletter. All of my gardening has been by trial and error. Now I have a place to pose a question or two. I'm so interested in what vegetables to plant near other vegetables and what not to plant near each other. I don't have much time but what I have read is fascinating.
Wow! Thanks!
by: Jesi B

How nice! All this free information! Readily available! Your site is like a truck load of presents---help yourself! Thank you, Mr. Doug! I have recently found your site, and didn't need to look farther for the info that I needed. It's all well planned and laid out in an easy composittion, so whatever the subject is, it is easy to find. It's plain to see you work as diligently on the quality of this site, as you do on gardening. It's so nice to have all YOUR years of hard work at our fingertips! Many blessings to YOU too.
newsletter comment
by: Bonnie

Thank you for all the interesting and down to earth tips on gardening. There is always something new to learn to help us to enjoy the pleasant hours gardening. You help and inspire many . Thank you again.
I enjoy the Newsletter
by: RD

Thanks Doug for the great newsletter. It sure has been a help and I love the pictures. Keep up the good work
useful
by: Anonymous

i came upon your site as i am searching for ways to grow lotus plants on our very on terece garden
in a container of about 3.5 feet round
but i found your info is mostly based for the u s
while climatic conditions in india are /might be much different i a based in pune india
Most Comprehensive
by: TK

I can't believe I haven't found this website before! It is the most comprehensive gardening information I've seen. I have yet to find a topic that hasn't been covered. I had hoped Doug was single but alas. Hard to find men who are into gardening and dogs! I love being able to just "pop" in and find information. I've forwarded your website to several of my gardening friends. Thank you.
Helpful hints
by: Cheryl

Thanks Doug
Im enjoying the news letters,planning to have a vegetable garden this year,your tips will definitley be usefull,hopefully there will be some info on growing sunflowers,Thanks.
Thanks Doug
by: Jim Wilkinson

I find the newsletters both infornative and enjoyable. I look forward to getting them. I have just started this years work and I find a lot of great information I can use already.
Keep up the great work.
Thanx, Doug!!
by: joe sevilla

I'm enjoying all the information that you pass along, Doug. I like growing veggies and flowers all together, mostly in our front yard, here in Carpinteria, CA. Your words of wisdom are encouraging and informative, since I'm a real student of wise, organic gardening.
have peace, joe sevilla
Your newsletter is a "gift"
by: Cathy Cook

We've all become a little jaded, I think, when it comes to 'free' communications, especially those offered online. Finding your newsletter, though, Doug, has restored my faith that there ARE still good, knowledgeable people interested in simply sharing their knowledge and talents to build a better world. I don't have nearly as much time as I would like to commit to gardening, but just glancing through your resources helps keep me motivated to do what I can. THANK YOU and bless you ~~
newsletter
by: Linda B

I love getting your newsletters. Even though I am in the deep south I learn something all the time about my gardening habits. Keep the info coming.
A Huge Help
by: Sandy

You've been a huge help in getting me started in organic gardening. I applied gobs of compost and top soil last fall and spread corn gluten this spring. My yard is 100% better already. The dandelions are vanishing! Woohoo!! My flower beds and vegetable garden are so healthy now that I've used your methods. I am constantly digging thru your info as I am really into gardening now that I can see great results.
I couldn't have done it without your help. I am amending my clay, making compost and compost tea, spreading coffee grounds and an thinking serious about a worm bin. I am studying companion planting and thinking about using rain barrels for free water. You've made gardening so exciting! I love every minute working in my yard and garden, even if I am using the Armstrong method! Thanks for all your help and e-books. I couldn't do it without you! Wouldn't want to!
newsletter
by: Valerie

Hey Doug,
Just a note to let you know that I am enjoying your weekly newsletters. Though I am just a beginner with garden, I have learned a lot from your website with the help of pictures and comments. I'm hoping this year to have a beautiful garden that I have always dreamed about. Thanks again.
Re: Newsletter
by: Sharon

Hi Doug: Just wanted to thank you for the wonderful newsletter. It is very informative & very nice pictures of plants & flowers.
FAITHFUL READER
by: Anonymous

I have memories of being a toddler in my mother’s garden and I have my grandchildren playing in my gardens now. So I consider myself to be knowledgeable and always willing to answer questions and help others who claim not to have a green thumb. I was searching the web one day to help out a friend and I stumbled on your website and have been back almost on a daily basis. I look forward to receiving your newsletter because you are very informative and have original ideas. Your newsletter helps the one plant gardener and the more experienced planter through the entire year not just during the growing season. Thank you.
Hooray, it is Thursday!
by: Jan Phipps

Thursday mornings means interesting reading from Doug's newsletter. I always learn something new even if it is a topic I know a lot about. Thank you, Doug for providing this free, well written newsletter.
Jan
P.S. The photography is also wonderful.
COMMENTS ON NEWSLETTER
by: R. rusty Avery

Hi Doug, well I haven't done too well using your site.. some of the links take me to shopping sites and that is not what I am looking for..I haven't had the time to really check into your garden of information yet but will sit down and take one topic at a time.. I do have one question..Is a caterpillar an insect or is it in a topic of its own? thanks for the answer..
Thank You!
by: Debbie Fickenscher

I love the Doug Green newsletter.
and I have a question. I live in A suburb of Denver, CO with clay, expansive soil. and as much as I feed and care for my yard, it is lumpy. Do worms cause that? I would live a smooth, emerald green yard. Any help? Thanks!
Newsletters
by: KRG_Peterborough On

Great information. By far the best gardening newsletter I have ever experienced. I like your sense of humour and stating the facts in a light hearted manner. Many thanks. If more people were like you and freely shared their knowledge it would be a better, happier world.
Thank You for all your work
by: Gramma Pam

Computers aren't that different from gardening. We work on them, expect things from them, generally they make us very happy, sometimes we goof up and learn from it, sometimes we goof up and don't. I'm glad for all the knowledge and sharing of information I can get.
Messed Up Computers... sigh
by: Doug

OK - so I used to have several hundred comments here - but I accidentally garbaged them all when I made some changes to the system. Sigh. I should stick to answering gardening questions and writing instead of doing server-side work. :-)

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