Garden Inspiration on Pinterest
While combing through a box in the garage a few months ago, I found a folder stuffed with torn out magazine pages and notes. It was my garden and home inspiration file from nearly a decade ago. As I paged through the pictures, it was fun to see how my style and tastes have evolved. Even though the file contained some ideas I still love, I ended up recycling it, because I feel overwhelmed by the amount of paper in my life. Bills, junk mail, tax notices, stacks of magazines. Ugh. When you’re a kid no one tell you that part of becoming an adult is being buried under a mountain of paper.
To keep track of ideas I love (like this amazing kitchen garden, which I will be doing a sneak peek of soon!), while minimizing paper accumulation, I recently started using Pinterest, which is a virtual pin board where you can file away inspiration from around the web. I use it as an online idea file for garden ideas, recipes to try, chicken coops, and more, plus as a tool for keeping tabs on trends. If you’re on Pinterest, let me know! I’d love to follow along and see what inspires you. Also, I started a pin board called Grow Cook Eat where I am filing away vegetable varieties I want to grow and DIY edible gardening projects. I’d love for this board to be collaborative, so if you want to pin ideas to it, just let me know and I will add you on as a contributor.
(2nd image via Lulabelle’s View)
Love your pinterest page, especially the ‘tower of herbs’ and the ‘mason jar garden’, although the latter seems pretty silly without drainage, and it will be impossible to up-pot them when they become root bound, but a fun idea nonetheless.
January 28th, 2012 at 4:08 pmPhil (Smiling Gardener)´s last [type] ..Organic Gardening Tips To Turn Your Garden Into A Thriving Ecosystem
Hi Willi! I’m on Pinterest too! Love it! http://pinterest.com/seattleseedling/
January 28th, 2012 at 5:04 pmStacy´s last [type] ..Beets for Dinner?
I have a similar box full of garden inspiration and craft ideas, some of which came from the web originally. I just wish I could find all those pics on the web somewhere so I can pin them now! Here’s a link to my boards: http://pinterest.com/dawiff/
January 28th, 2012 at 6:31 pmAlison´s last [type] ..The Aftermath of the Storm
Pinterest has been huge for finding and sharing garden content. My profile is here – http://pinterest.com/kanejamison/
I’ve found it to be an excellent place to scrounge up permaculture & homesteading resources and ideas in general.
January 28th, 2012 at 6:38 pmKane Jamison´s last [type] ..Douglas Bullock’s Fruit Tree Recommendations for Seattle
Hi Willi, Thanks a bunch! I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember that name – Pinterest. Now I can get going on organizing my favorite places. See you at the NWFlower&Garden Show with your book in hand! Trish
January 28th, 2012 at 8:48 pmPinterest is dangerous! It is possible to lose track of time following all the great pins, garden and otherwise…but what a great way to corral all those recipes and garden photo clippings.
January 28th, 2012 at 9:07 pmEveryone I know uses it and loves it!
January 28th, 2012 at 9:28 pmmeemsnyc´s last [type] ..I Lied, I Do Need Seeds!
I love pinterest…except it is very addictive!
January 29th, 2012 at 8:19 amI am on pinterest, too – http://pinterest.com/NWVeggies/
January 29th, 2012 at 5:36 pmLindsey @NW Backyard Veggies´s last [type] ..Do Your Duty, America!
Hi Willi, I just started using Pinterest so am slowly getting some things on my boards. I have a garden board and just pinned a couple ideas from your board. Would be great to follow each other. I’m coming up to the Flower and Garden show so I may be at your seminar. Haven’t figured out what all I’m attending just yet… can’t wait!
January 30th, 2012 at 1:57 pmOops, here is my Pinterest address… http://pinterest.com/andreabn/igardendaily/
January 30th, 2012 at 1:59 pmandrea´s last [type] ..Seedy Ideas….
I had to laugh reading this post as less than an hour ago I told my 7 year old daughter that eventually she had to learn how to manage paper. She has folders and boxes of drawings and notes! Of course I pointed to my piles to show her I’m still trying to learn this skill too.
February 3rd, 2012 at 6:06 pmI love this — am going to try to use Pinterest,too. But mostly I have just been trying to find a way to tell you how much I love the book — I have been sitting on the couch every night savoring it and putting little post its all over the place — new things to grow, delicious things to eat, great tips…congratulations Willi–it’s lovely!
February 8th, 2012 at 1:37 pmYay, another like-minded Pinterest addict to follow!
February 9th, 2012 at 3:19 pmAmy´s last [type] ..Aftermath
I’m now following you on Pinterest!
http://pinterest.com/shernor/
February 20th, 2012 at 5:05 pmSheryl (Flowery Prose)´s last [type] ..Flowery blurbs, volume 7.