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60 Online Gardening Blogs for Beginners

If you are looking for a great way to enjoy your yard and save a few bucks at the same time then you may want to consider starting a garden. A well maintained garden area requires some year-round work and if you are lucky enough to live in a mild climate you may be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor all year as well. If not, don’t worry as we will help provide you with resources to maximize the personal satisfaction and yield that you get out of your garden no matter how long your gardening season may be. One of the best sources of information is other online blogs that specialize on different subjects related to gardening. I put together of 60 of the best gardening blogs I could find from around the World to help you whether you are just getting started or are an old pro at gardening.

BACKYARD GARDENING – This blog offers articles about backyard gardening. Aside from the usual articles the blog also has photo gallery on backyard gardening and serves as medium on forums of visitors interested to know more about gardening.

SUSTAINABLE and URBAN GARDENING – If you both love gardening and Mother Nature this blog is perfect for you. It primarily talks about urban and eco-friendly gardening. Susan Harris is the author of this blog and does a great job of keeping this updated and relevant.

Your Organic Gardening Blog – This blog is perfect for people who are interested or curious about maintaining an organic garden. There are posts on techniques, tips and conversations on organic gardening you can read. There is also an interesting section of the blog dedicated to composting that is by itself worth visiting to read.

GARDENING BLOG – The blog features posts from various contributors and accepts questions from its readers. Each post has photo for a more vivid expression of the topic. The pictures and writing are stunning and this is an all-around really professional blog. Nicely done!

Garden Bliss – The blog has been online since 2004 and provides the author’s (Angela Pratt) insights on gardening. There are also photos of Angela’s plants and flowers aside from other gardening events she has visited that you can view.

My Tiny Plot – This blog is not only helpful for people who are fond of gardening. The articles deal with veggie gardening and seasonal cooking as well.

The Budding Gardener – Canadian Gardening Blog – This blog talks about a variety of topics including garden shows, ornamental grasses, and spring flowers. The blog is conversant to readers and even invites them to share their own experiences in gardening.

Gardener’s Journal – The blog has only operated for about 2 years, but readers can get a lot of insights about veggie planting in their garden. The owner even shares recipes and some background on vegetables in his garden.

Cold Climate Gardening – The blog provides articles on gardening during cold weather and information on various vegetables and flowers. Blog posts come from more or less 15 contributors. If you live in a colder climate this one is simply a must read blog!

Allanbecker.Gardenguru – This blogsite gives readers information about garden design and provides inspiring photos that you can use as inspiration for your own garden.

Skippy’s Vegetable Garden – This blogsite is a comprehensive journal that tracks the owner’s activities with her garden. There are lists of the seeds she used, garden diagrams and her recommended planting schedule.

Organic Gardening News and Advice - The blogsite offers gardening news and insights regarding organic gardening, farming, as well as sustainable agriculture. The blog’s owner has been an organic gardener since 1995.

Aussie Organic Gardening – This gardening blog aims to promote organic gardening in general hence, it does not encourage readers to use chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. It’s a great resource for natural gardening advice.

Eden Makers Blog – This blog is managed by Shirley Bovshow, a professional garden television host, gardening coach and landscape designer. She shares tips on plant combinations and more on her blog.

The Organic Gardening Blog – This blog shares tips on starting an organic garden, natural pest control, landscaping, and composting.

Veggie Gardening Tips – This blogsite has been operating for five years and has over a hundred posts on gardening (for those keeping track that’s really impressive). The site also contains photos on various vegetables and veggie gardening techniques.

A Way to Garden – The blog is owned by a professional writer who has been writing articles about gardening for 20 years. Needless to say, this is high quality reading that will keep you glued to your computer so reserve some time to dedicate to this blog.

Amy Stewart – This blogsite is the online version of Amy Stewart’s articles. She has published essyas and commentaries in Garden Design, the New York Times, and Organic Gardening to name a few.

Garden Rant – This blog was started in June 2006 and since then offered readers informative articles about gardening. It has been awarded as the Best Garden Blog and Most Innovative Garden Blog, by a jury of its peers.

Gardens of the Wild Wild West – This blog covers an extensive range of gardening topics. The owner, Mary Ann Newcomer, has essays regarding garden writers, garden-inspired movies, and gardening events and activities.

In Advertent Gardener – This blog space shares the personal experiences of the owner as a gardener. The topics range from weeding to indoor plants to growing tomatoes.

Irish Blog of Home and Gardening – The blog is a source of information not solely for gardening, but for home, family and other related topics as well.

Growing Southern – This blog has been in operation since 2005. It offers information about wildflowers, composting and other stuff that you can use to improve your garden.

Art of Gardening – This website has a lot of tips on practical gardening and various gardening events and activities that the author is involved in related to gardening.

The Aquaponic Gardening Blog – This blog features an alternative way of gardening called aquaponic. It offers information about aquaponic gardening and its components. If you don’t now what aquaponic is, you better visit this one today to find out!

The Upside-Down Garden – The blog’s owner is from New Zealand and aims to share his garden’s development through time. This type of garden chronicle is really interesting especially if you are also starting a garden as you can pretty much follow along with him.

Contextual Gardens – The blog is a great source to learn about interesting gardens. The essays are made more interesting with the photos attached to them.

Seed of Serenity – The blog space talks about the experiences of a novice gardener who wishes to share relevant and true-to-life experiences on gardening.

Gardening and Cleaning – The blog offers tips and information on gardening solutions. There are guidelines for choosing the right fertilizer, rose pruning, and preparing one’s lawn for summer.

Garden Walk, Garden Talk – The blog’s creator is a master gardener and an architect who is enthusiastic about sharing tips and ideas about maintaining a garden.

Potato Queen and Mulch Boy – This blogsite is the owner’s diary of their garden’s transformation since it has started in 2001. This blog is a great read for you if you are planning to start your own garden as well since it chronicles their whole experience.

Tony – The Garden Guy – The moderator of the blog has been a gardener for about 28 years. The blog is a medium for conveying his tips on gardening.

Veggie Gobbler - The blog features stories regarding the author’s garden and family. Aside from that the garden articles, it also has recipes that are based from her garden’s plants.

Gardening with Wilson – The blogsite has been running since 2007. Aside from information about gardening, the website also features articles on other DIY projects.

Today’s Garden Ideas – The essays in the blogsite provide the reader with instructions on maintaining and designing gardens to give them a beautiful appearance all-year round.

The Gardens at MELISSA MAJORA – This journal is a great source for information on maintaining a bee-friendly garden. If you don’t know what a bee-friendly garden is or why you would possibly want one then please visit this blog.

The Garden Life – The site is very attractive because of the various photos posted in the site. You can refer to these photos along with the information given in the articles to jumpstart your own garden experiences.

Marcelle Nankervis – This blog shares stories, tricks, and tips for people who are interested in gardening. The blog aims to promote sustainable and green gardening techniques which make it very popular right now.

Missy’s Home & Garden Improvements – This blog is a collection of various blog articles from various people around the website. The topics are mostly from their own experiences which you can easily relate to and/or get useful information from to apply to your own garden.

The Clueless Gardens – This blogspace offers information on various components of a garden—from plants to animals to garden decorations. Aside from the insightful articles, the blog also has interesting photos mostly featuring the author’s garden.

Balcony Gardener – Balcony Gardener is all about container gardening which involves small gardens in containers that are suitable for high-rise apartments and other urban housing options. I’ll tell you one thing, there are a lot less weeds to pull!

Balcony Garden Dreaming – Balcony Garden Dreaming has explorations in permaculture balcony gardening and edge gardening. The blog owner is a really great and fun character that you will definitely enjoy getting to know.

Totally Inept Balcony Garden – Like many of us Daphne is strapped for time and space in her small apartment balcony. She is making the most of it and sharing her experiences with us to add some green to urban areas and gardens.

66 Square Feet – This is an award winning blog about a small 66 Square ft. garden located in New York City on a small terrace. This garden (in a cold climate) offers 12 seasons of delight for the owner and she is shares it all with her readers.

Life on the Balcony – Life on the Balcony has gardening tips for apartment and condo dwellers that are interested in trying container gardening for the first time (okay, lots of advice for experienced container gardeners as well).

NYC Gardener – This is another great blog about a gardener from New York City. She shares gardening secrets from her urban garden including what appear to be ways to grow some gigantic tomato plants. Nicely done!

The 6×8 Garden – This blogger is turning her 6×8 balcony into a vegetable container garden and is a self proclaimed part hobbit, part Jedi, and a lacto-ovo vegetarian. If you aren’t interested in finding out more… how is that possible?

Green Roof Growers – Green Roof Growers features techniques like SIP (sub-irrigated planters) and pop bottle planters to turn an urban garden into something truly unique.

CityDiggity – CityDiggity is a great and award winning blog about urban gardening written by Avis Weathersbee, a writer living in Chicago, IL. She tackles all kinds of subjects from selecting the right veggies to plant in your small space to spreading the word about urban agriculture and sustainability in general.

A Growing Delight – Alice and her husband are from Australia and they are very interested in sharing their gardening experiences with you. They have some great stories and pictures of their garden down under.

Gatsby’s Gardens – This is a really great looking blog that provides garden coaching/advice as well as tons of useful information on container gardening. There are a lot of really nice high resolution photos on this site as well.

New York City Garden – As the title of the blog suggests this is another great blog all about gardening in the big apple (NYC). It is kept very current and I am a huge fan of this particular blog on urban gardening.

The London Vegetable Garden – Guess what? People actually grow vegetables on their balconies in London as well. This is a cool blog all about raising a vegetable garden from a balcony in London.

The Chile Foundry – Part farm/part garden blog you can get great information on growing chiles and other ingredients for your own secret salsa from this great UK blog. It’s a little different than the rest of the blogs on the list but I LOVE SALSA!

My Little Vegetable Garden – My Little Vegetable Garden is all about gardening in Malaysia and the best part about this blog is that the veggies are more than just carrots and beans. You get to see some great and different vegetables that you can grow and enjoy wherever you are (which for me is part of the gardening experience I truly love).

Dirt Therapy – Phillip Oliver writes about gardening in northwest Alabama and includes lots of great pictures with the spirit behind the blog being the positive health impacts and mental wellness that comes along with gardening.

My Rustic Bajan Garden – This blog features a garden in the tropics (Barbados). As you would expect it’s simply beautiful except when it floods.

Rambling in the Garden – You can get some great gardening tips for the Southwestern US States from this blog. It is owned by Doreen Pollack of Phoenix, AZ. It’s very current and also has some good pics of her Arizona garden.

Veg Plotting – Veg Plotting is an eclectic blog with lots of articles mostly about rural life and gardening in Wiltshire (in the UK). I’ve never been but this blog makes you want to visit.

Flowers and Weeds – Flowers and Weeds discusses gardening in the rainy Pacific Northwest as well as again giving you a feel for this region of the country. They have some great vacation pics as well from Tulameen, BC.

From a Houston Garden – From deep in the hart of texas we get this blog which covers the Houston garden scene and provides some great recipes for your garden goodies.

Bay Area Tendrils – Bay Area Tendrils discusses vertical gardens and some amazing plants that you won’t see on any other blog in this list. Alice is quite unique and also has a very active Twitter feed so don’t forget to follow her tweets!