Organic Gardener

About Susan Harris

Master Gardener Susan Harris is a gardening coach and writer.  Her website about sustainable gardening contains plant recommendations, guides to composting and mulching, Tips with Teeth, and much more. Susan writes the award-winning team blog GardenRant. with her three partners, her own Sustainable Gardening Blog, and a gardening column in two Maryland newspapers. In her spare time she's an activist for urban and suburban greening in the Washington, D.C. area.

Visit Susan's home page here: www.sustainable-gardening.com

Susan's Latest Articles

Learning to grow food organically

by: Susan Harris, 25 July 2008

With all the focus these days on eating food that's locally and organically grown, the growing of food - also known as farming - is attracting more and more young people as a career or business opportunity
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How to Water your Garden

by: Susan Harris, 16 July 2008

More plants are killed by watering mistakes than any other single cause, so listen up
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Master Composters are here to teach

by: Susan Harris, 16 July 2008

English garden writer Emma Cooper thought she'd been gardening in isolation for too long, so she signed up for her local Master Composter program as a way to give back to her community.
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On the Virtues of clover...and hand weeding

by: Susan Harris, 10 July 2008

You may be surprised to learn that not long ago, most commercial lawn seed mixes included a healthy proportion of clover seeds. Why?  Because clover is a source of fertilizer,
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