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Some of my favorite blogs are those that cover a broad range of topics. Yet, all those topics are of interest to a certain “tribe”of people. My tribe, women who are caring for their homes and families in a way that is simple and intentional. Women who want to keep learning new skills. Skills that will both make them more resilient if times get hard and with more joy. Many of these women are earning money from their homes.
So, what is niche blogging? I see it as not a narrow topic list, but a defined group of people that are interested in the topics you cover.
Some very successful bloggers would disagree with my understanding of, What is niche blogging. They would tell you to keep your topics very narrow. That people will not stay with you during your posts that are not of interest to them. There is I’m sure a lot of truth in their way of thinking.
This article at Problogger shares tips for those interested in Niche blogging. One of the tips focuses on the time it takes to build a blog community. Patience and wonderful writing skills plus time is not enough. Do you have a blog that you love? Do you love it because you really like the blogger? If you could spend some real time with them would you choose to? Probably because your in the same tribe.
How about you, what do you like to read a blog that covers one topic or one with several topics geared to a particular “tribe” of people?
Last year I grew potatoes in a raised box that was 3′x5′ The narrow box made it a little difficult to pile the dirt over the potatoes as they grew. Why do potatoes turn green? You may already know, if they are exposed to light they turn green. This comes from the pigment chlorophyll, produced as a response to light. I have read everything from just remove the green part and eat to throw the potato out. As you can see some of my Yukon Gold Potatoes did turn green. My potatoes turned green not in storage, but as they were growing.
This article found at the Purdue Gardening News website explains in a very brief article what is happening to the potato when it is greening. I did end up throw some of mine out. Sad!
How can you be a resilient and intentional gardener ?
Using some of the potatoes that I grew last year to grow this years crop. My stored potatoes were beginning to sprout. So, I am planting them now. I’m planting a little earlier this year than last,so I’ve decided to start them under plastic. Where I live it stays pretty cool most of the year.
Here they are in the wider raised bed. I hope that this allows me room to keep them covered with soil and or straw. Avoiding the problem of greening.
How does your garden grow? Do you use green potatoes or toss them?
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD Psa 15:6
