what magazines do you read?

I'm looking to advertise my webpage next year, I grow herbs, Pelargoniums, ferns, and a mixed assortment of tropicals and perennials.

I love Fine Gardening, I think it's a great mag, Herb Companion is good too.
At anyrate, which do you read? and which do you think would be most worth me advertising in?
I have limited funds, and can only advertise in one, maybe two for a few months, so I'm looking to get the most bang for my buck so to speak.

thanks!
Drew

Fine Gardening, Horticulture and Garden Gate

Drew, FG is a wonderful mag although I cannot afford a subscription anymore. I used to get Fine Cooking, Fine Homebuilding and Fine Gardening as I believe they are the cream of the crop. If I were an advertiser, I'd go where the money is: Fine Gardening.

I like Country Living Gardener, but it is pretty obscure.

If your products are organic, you might consider Organic Gardening. It's a great magazine, and has been around for many years.

Oh my! I read tons of magazines. Better Homes and Gardens, Garden Gate, Martha Stewart Living, Quick Cooking, Cooking Light, Taste of Home, Birds and Blooms....I can't remember the other ones right now, but I get tons of magazines.

my cousin helps run Organic Gardening...
and no, i couldn't care about organics, i grow by a method i call 'ethical gardening'

i worked for martha stewart, don't think i could stomach giving her my money...

i think i'll end up with fine gardening.

DR, I am interested , what is ethical gardening? I could assume alot by the term, would you mind elaborating. Good luck on you choices, and God bless!

Garden Gate

Do you belong to an electric coop? I do...they mail a paper and magazine once a month..advertising in them is free for members...or very cheap. That way you could get local coverage as well as national.

Southern Living is still my fave all-around gardening/cooking magazine. I know it's regional, but the south is a pretty big region, and arguably has the biggest percentage of gardeners who can grow tropicals year-round, southern California notwithstanding.

Terry, I actually find that northern gardeners buy the most from me... I actually prefer this, my local selling season is 1st of april until mothersday in May...
northerns do not get started until after mothersday, it helps extend my season, overlapping them would kill me :P

My term "ethical gardening" refers to doing what my own morals dictate. I might spray orthene, but it will not be on an edible crop, or even in the same vicinity... I will use non-organic fertilizer for potted plants, but wouldn't ever use it for the tomatos in the garden. I have been known to loose a crop or have a leaf or two be worm eaten because I refuse to spray a greenhouse of herbs that people will be buying within a month.
Ethics in growing also refer to the responsibility of using chemicals. I know many that would just spray away with complete ignorance of what they use. I learn as much as possible and my actions are deliberate and well thought out before I act. This is often overlooked, I knew a local that bought one of those huge 2.5gal jugs of roundup, and went out in the yard to spray all the weeds, and along the fencepost. Mind you he sprayed the entire jug because he didn't read the label to dilute it @ 5oz per gallon of water.
My father-in-law recently sprayed a 100ft row of beans with roundup to kill the weeds. These actions are ignorant and unneccesary... at any rate, there is one person I will not be getting beans from.

Drew

Southern Living, Birds and Blooms, Texas Gardener

Deeproots, I subscribe to a lot of gardening magazines, the three that Dea mentions are my three favorites also. Good luck with your venture. Donna

well..now....... firstly, we have a magazine up here in Canada, called Gardens West, and Gardenwise! local gardens and sites are found in these ones! Country Living Gardener, BBC Gardeners' World, sometimes Fine Gardening, and the BHG "Garden Shed" issue, out once a yr. Any mag on ROSES of course! just some.....Elaine

Organic Gardening
fine Gardening
Garden Design
Texas Gardener
Sunset
Southern Living (occasionally)
Horticulture
Herb Companion
BBC Garden World
Country Living Gardener
Better Homes and Gardens
Birds n Blooms
Matha Stewart Living
RHS

when in Mexico, whatever I can find there.

If there were more available, I would read them, too.

Have you priced the different companies ? If it were me, the price comparison would have some influence on my decision.

Also depends on your target market, and what you have to sell.

Do you have a website?

Love, Lavanda

yeah, i have a website...
check my profile

Just went there. Handsome cool dude (or is it cold ? LOL)

When I click on the hyperlink to take me to your website, it insted stays/goes to your DG profile page.

You might wann fix it.

Now going to website....

Drew just looked at the webpage. It is nice... is that darlin little girl onthe home page your daughter?

Do your products have specific scents?

Like the laundry soap - I would love to have lavender scented laundry soap.

Any chances?