It’s Time! A Call to Action!
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Can you believe it’s time to start your garden for 2010? Okay, it’s not time for ALL of you, but those with early frost dates (Red group) should be planning, starting seeds, etc. As I look outside at snow that hasn’t melted in weeks and check the thermometer (it’s about 27 degrees F), I can’t believe it myself! I promise, even though my gardening won’t start for a month or two, I won’t leave you Red and Orange groups on your own. I will start thinking green along with you!
There are several changes I have to make this gardening season. I hope many of you found my weekly email newsletters helpful as a reminder of when to plant what. This year I hope to add a fertilizing schedule (both organic and chemical) so your garden can be as green and prolific as possible.
The problem I’ve run into is this–I have over 500 requests for email newsletters. Thus far I have been sending these out manually (groan!), but gmail only allows me to send 500 per day. I’ve accepted the reality that I need to upgrade to a service that will automate the newsletters and allow me to send it to an unlimited number of people.
I hope you believe me that I do not run this site for money (the advertising just covers my costs), and I’m not trying to make a buck off you. But if I want to continue this service I can’t afford to absorb the cost myself. So, I’m asking for your help–please take the following survey so I can figure out if I can continue the newsletters and how much to charge. Just be honest!
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On a more personal note, this is what I’ve been growing this winter:
This is baby Jacob in October. Check out how big he is today!
The good news is, he’s starting to sleep through the night, which means my brain is slowly thawing and I’ll be able to think and write coherently again!
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Just wanted to come back to say what a cutie he is. How fun that will be able to enjoy all those veggies this summer!! That’s the best way to grow babies with fresh organic home-grown!
What a cutie! Congratulations 🙂
Congrats on your cute baby! I did not realize that he joined your family in the fall. He is so adorable. 🙂
I’m so glad you blogged!! I just found out about your site thru http://www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net 🙂 Thanks so much for all that you do!
-Aimee
I didn’t do the survey. I’m a single mom who is just barely making it. There was no room on the survey to list the fact that we can’t afford to pay for this service and I didn’t want to be rude to you and just answer that I would unsubscribe.
Thank you for all your hard work. I hope you can get this up and running as a paid service. Perhaps you can try Yahoo or Hotmail and see whether or not they would let you send out more emails for free.
What about making a differnt blog for each planting group? Then people could subscribe to the correct blog for their zone. You would just have to post the information on the blog and then the feedreaders would send the updates? You could use a free blog service like blogsplot and it wouldn’t need to be pretty. You wouldn’t have to write the posts each time, just cut and paste from one zone to the next? Does this make sense? I don’t think it would be more work than sending out e-mails to each zone group and it would be free and not limited to a number of subscribers.
I just found your blog in the middle of the year last year, but have found it useful.
Thanks,
Kim