Garden Website Review #1: MyFolia.com

Last week, I was invited to join a little gardening site called MyFolia.com. I was really hesitant because of the content scraping that was going around our little community and figured this was someone trying to take my words and republish them on another page to make $ off my blog (which isn't fair because I don't even get to do that!!)

Anyhow, I took the plunge and signed up. And I have to share with you all how awesome this site is!

Basically, MyFolia is an online garden portfolio that you maintain for your gardens and all of the plants in them. (You can visit their site and take the tour here.)

I've added a couple of my annotated Flickr pictures at this link, and if you click on them it will open in a new page where you can view my comments on certain items of particular interest. I'm a visual learner, and not real adept at explaining things, so I like the guided tour approach. I hope the folks at MyFolia won't mind either...

Like you, I don't have a lot of time to spend on frivilous things that don't help me in the long run. My initial investment of time in MyFolia will pay huge dividends over the next few seasons as I'm able to track seed starting/hardening off/planting dates, first/last frosts, warm spells, how different plants fared over the seasons, and share things I'd grow again.

In the last week, I was able to add different gardens I have, including plants and date planted. I am able to keep track of all of the seeds I have including dates I plant them. I have access to a garden journal, which is better than my little ghetto one I write in that I purchased at Borders last year. It serves as an informational clearing house for your garden and the things in it. I like the Web 2.0 aspect to it in that you can share with and meet other gardeners!

Anyhow, if you're interested in helping them Beta test the site (it is a baby - only 3 months old!), you can sign up here. This site is created by two *real* human beings, Nic and Nath, and I've had the chance to chat with them both over email as well as by posting questions and suggestions. Nic and Nath seem like great people, and I truly hope their site does well.

If you're interested in finding me there, search for gardenpunk (imagine that).

See you at MyFolia.com!

(PS - I'm not linked to this site other than being a Beta user. I'm not getting paid by them to tell you about it, but like all good gardening ideas - this one is too good to keep to myself!)