A lot of people are blogging about gardening these days. People
who normally blog about clothing, interior design and a little
bit of everything (or, um, nothing) are writing posts about
gardening. I think that is fantastic. The more gardeners in this
world the better, so if people are inspired to put a few plants
in containers or improve their landscape or install raised beds
to grow some veggies, this is only a good thing. Especially when
people are new to gardening. I hope every one of them has great
success and falls in love with it.  Last week, one of the non-
gardening blogs I read had a beautiful mood board full of
gorgeous pictures of all the plants the blogger was planning to
put into a new border, and it was a great mix. But then she said
this: "Gardening is TOTALLY trial and error."  I cringed. By and
large, there is very little trial and error in gardening, at
least for the home gardener, in terms of whether a plant lives
or dies. And gardening can be a rather expensive endeavor (of
course it can b