Oh, To Be A Canadian Gardening Blogger

I've entered a contest to blog for Canadian Gardening. Apparently the more people who "like" or comment on my entry increases my chances of winning. I'd appreciate it if you could like/comment on my entry. It's here:

http://bloggercontest.canadiangardening.com/entry/2183823

The contest closes today, April 6 at 11:59 EST so please hurry!

UPDATE - found out it doesn't close until April 15!

Thanks so much.

We now have the power to put our garden images where we want!

OK, this has nothing to do with gardening. It has to do with an annoyance I, and I'm sure many of you have also had, who use Blogger. Before, when an image was placed, it was forced to be at the top. You could not place it where you wanted, or if you could, it was not a simple process.

Today as I was looking at my blog settings page, I noticed under "Select Post Editor", that there's an option to select "updated editor". And voila, now I can place images where I want them! Not only that, I can resize them and move them around.

Another bonus - with the old editor, when you save drafts of your posts, and then publish them for instance the next day, the day you started writing your blog was used, not the date published. Now it shows the published date.

Don't know why I wasn't informed of this change. Maybe I was but I missed the notice. Anyway, I'm happy about it and I'm sure my fellow Bloggers are too.

Now if only we could add captions ...

Planting Map - Cool Gardening Tool!

I came across this great tool on the Gardener’s Supply website that I wanted to share.

Choosing from a selection of 47 items, you drag the items onto a planting map. Each of the squares represents 1 sq. ft. You can also determine the size of your garden.

Now for the cool part. Once done, you are able to generate a plan, which shows you how many seeds to plant, of each item, in each sq. ft. Love this gadget!