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Re: [GWL]: The decline of garden writing

Title: Re: [GWL]: The decline of garden writing
J.I. Rodale knew how to make it lively.  He included everything and anything that was even the least bit different, often anecdotal, and very often from the readers.  Electroculture (remember wire grids over the beds to attract the proper energy), all-mulch gardening ala Ruth Stout, and more.  The subjects were interesting if not always scientifically correct, and made the readers think and try things for themselves.  And there were lots of personal experiences, after the fashion of what Pat Stone puts in GreenPrints now.
    But now so few publications even DARE to put in a real mix of new, unsual, and personal experiences.  As you say, it's all straight how-to for dummies.  So where does that leave the gardener who is even a step beyond Dummy who wants to expand their horizons.  I have a #$%^ of a time even selling the idea of slightly different fruits because "everyone wants apples and pears".
-Lon

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From: Jeff Ball <jeffball@starband.net>
To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
Subject: RE: [GWL]: The decline of garden writing
Date: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 6:55 AM


Going a step further, good garden writing, interesting garden writing, does not need controversy at all.  It just needs to deal with issues, or problems with different solutions, or just something unusual and worth noting.  Ive been gardening for 30 years and I seldom find an article or column worth reading to the end.  The writing is not bad, it is just the subject is boring to me; I have read it before  several times.  
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