Where Have All the Veg Plots Gone?

By Mwillis
Is it just my perception, or are there 10 times as many blogs about flower-gardens as there are about veg-patches? It certainly seems that way to me. At the risk of sparking off a gender war, I also reckon that the vast majority of flower-gardeners are female, and the vast majority of veg-growers are male. What do you think? And could there be a link here: The female of the species may perhaps be better at communication (e.g. writing a blog), whereas the male may dominate where brute force and ignorance is required (e.g. digging the allotment)! What do you think?

You know that my primary horticultural interest is in veg-growing, and because of this I have recently been searching around to find a few more like-minded veg-bloggers with whom to interact, but to be honest I haven't found many. Don't get me wrong; it's not that I dislike flowers, or that I consider them too girlie. It's just that I prefer growing edible things. It would be nice therefore to have some meaningful conversations with other people who grow veg. Do you have any recommendations for me?

On a related theme... I have observed that many blogs don't last very long. The blogger starts off in a fit of enthusiasm and writes once or twice a week for maybe 3 or 4 months, and then the posts become thinner and rarer, and then fizzle out altogether. I have seen this happen several times with bloggers who I thought would be "stayers", only to be disappointed again. Having said that of course, many of my favorite bloggers have been blogging for years and years! Maybe that's the point - once you get past a certain point, blogging becomes part of your life and ceasing it is no longer an option? So anyway, whilst I am really happy to keep on corresponding with my well-established blogging friends, I am also looking to broaden my horizons during 2015. This is why I want you to recommend to me your favorite vegetable-garden bloggers...

Oh, and to prove that I don't JUST do veg...