Magazines

What are your favorite magazines to subscribe to? I picked up a Garden Gate and loved it. I subscribed and ordered the back issues. I now have them from day one. A very generous neighbor gave me a subscription to Fine Gardening. I'm keeping it too.

Mine are Garden Gate and Fine Gardening...Most of the others have to many advertisements..

Loretta

My very favorite is Garden Gate! Second, is Horticulture and third is Canadian Gardening.
I agree about their being too many ads in most others, especially ads for alcohol....ugh!

Erynne

One of my favorites is Birds and Blooms, gorgeous pictures and grat articles.

Josephine.

Hi Frostweed, been awhile since we've been on the same thread. I also took Horticulture. I have a few leftover Flower and Garden from way back, Country Gardens, Garden Deck and Landscape, and Better Homes and Gardens special editions. I kept my Mom's Bird and Blooms. When I had foot surgery, I sat on our screened in porch and read them one by one. You would think I'd be a self taught Master Gardner...... you would think.

I got a subscription to "Gardening How to" for Christmas and I really enjoy it and will of course, be saving all my issues for future reference and solice in the winter time. Lou

B.C., ( before computer), I subscribed to every garden related magazine that I ever heard of. I have saved tham all ! I used to dig them out in the winter and go through them one by one. Now the poor things are just gathering dust.
I still get "Gardening How to". I think all the others have expired.

Marian

Reader's Digest is my very favorite. I'm a big reader and this digest has all sorts of good stuff in it each month. From what I've seen of it, I like Garden Gate, too.

psssstt.....Okay, I know it's fun to have threads like this to talk about who-likes-what ;o)

But (big plea here) please share your opinions with the Watchdog, too: http://davesgarden.com/gwd/advanced.php?category=103&submit=Go

I think you'll find all the magazines mentioned are listed. (If not, let us know and we'll add any that are missing.)

Threads come and they go - that's what they're supposed to do ;o)
But sharing your opinion (especially a positive one) in the Watchdog has more "staying power," and - quite frankly - it goes a lot further to help other gardeners (many of whom are not subscribers to our forums.) Your "word of mouth" recommendations also help your favorite magazine grow their customer base and stay in businesses, which is especially important to those that don't have any advertising and operate on a smaller marketing budget.

C'mon....you've figured out how to post to our forums, so submitting your feedback in the Watchdog is just as easy ;o) (If you need help, let us know!)

Thanks Terry. Being fairly new I'm still feeling my way around. I think I visited watchdog more before I joined and now I'm so busy I put it on the back burner. So thanks for the nudge. I'll get over there later!

For more than several years I bought all the garden magazines mentioned above. Being a hoarder I have most of them. Neatly ranked on shelves in the den. Also piled on the various side tables that abound in my house.

So a coupla years ago I decided to just pick a few of the older ones and get them out like they were new. It works. LOL some of the ideas had slipped my mind and a few of the oldies were pretty much like the ones on the shelves at the market today. I can spend the money on plants.

In the dead of winter, these mags can brighten my day. no way I'm parting with my old issues of Horticulture. ~Blooms*

*I'm a registered member of the clutter and chaos population.

Laugh! I would order more gardening magazines, but around x-mas, I looked for something new and decided the 2 I'm getting are the best I can find. I didn't even buy one to take home. When did they get so expensive? :o(

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That plays a big part in the decision. I can get a big garden book in the remainders aisle for the price of some of those magazines. And do.

I always check out the discount case at Barnes and Noble. I have a ton of gardening books. You should see the pile I'm getting around the computer trying to answer questions. I love books!

Oh me too, me too. I have 30 inches of gardening books within my reach - and that's not counting my two Western Gardening and National Gardening "bibles" for if and how I can grow something. My favorites right now are Undaunted Garden and Gardening with Groundcovers.

I just got back from the grocery store - when did Campbell's tomato soup go to a dollar a can?

Don't know? LOL We have gotten a taste for Hy'vee's Bean with Bacon mixed with Campbells Roadhouse Chili.
I have three shelves of a tall bookcase devoted to flower books. My first were Orthos Perennials, and I got those one by one at Earl May's Gardening Center. I have a list to take with me so I don't accidently buy the same book twice. I don't even know which is my favorite, but they have to have nice color photos. I use Right Plant Right Place a lot.