Heather's Garden

MORE FUN WITH SEARCH ENGINES

I have noticed a marked increase in the number of hits per day Heather's Garden is receiving this spring.  I wasn't blogging yet this time last year (though I had started gardening, just barely), but I'm guessing this is a natural result of spring planting questions.  I just hope that some of the folks who stop by via search engine stick around and enjoy their visit.

Some of the wacky searches I've seen lately:

auto plants VPH stats - Apparently VPH means something else altogether in the automotive world.

crazy junk gardens - How did this bring people to me?  Do I have a crazy junk garden?

wheelbarrow garden planter for sell in Connecticut - Now that's not even proper grammar, people, nor have I ever written about wheelbarrow garden planters until now and probably won't again.

walking in a store nude - Was this person disappointed to find a gardening blog?

cinder block vegetable gardens pictures - This sounds so unappealing.  I have cinder blocks, I have a vegetable garden, never the two shall meet!

can spider poop eat through house siding - OMG I'm shaking -- can it?

homer simpson christmas ornament step on cat - This is eldest step-son's Christmas ornament (we each have one of our own that represents our territory).

CT shoreline couple's party - I hope this person did not stick around -- not to be a prude, but ugh. 

why is heather so strange? - Did they find an answer?  I'm sure VPH would have a few things to say on this topic.

i have to poop whenever I'm in Home Depot - I'd really like to know the backstory on this one (totally unintentional pun).

how to grow a good garden in ct - Hmmmm, do everything that I do, or nothing that I do?

How did you find this blog and do you plan to keep on visiting?

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE AND HOW DID YOU FIND ME?

Usually I have an inkling how people get to my blog from web searches, for example:

garden containers kale and mums -- I wrote about trying to find fall containers plants that weren't kale or mums

tuscan lamb bean stew -- my post the other day about the dinner that VPH cooked me contained almost this exact wording (was this person disappointed that there wasn't a recipe?)

eiffel tower garden trellis -- some of my snow peas are growing in a hanging container on which I fashioned a twine trellis that resembled the Eiffel Tower

flagstone walkway "landscape fabric" -- in my early posts about the origin of our gardening efforts I used all those words close together

zucchini leaves turning yellow -- I get this one so often that I edited an old post to include a link to the reason that the zucchini leaves turned yellow in my garden

heather garden -- I know people who are looking for a garden full of heather plants are disappointed to arrive at the blog of a woman who killed the only heather plant in her garden

But this one has me completely confused: What is the goal of Proud Garden?

What does that even mean?  And how the hell did I come up as 7th on a Google search?

I wonder if the folks who blunder onto my blog stick around and read or if they immediately click back to their search disappointed?  I found Genie at Inadvertent Gardener by Googling something or another and fell in like with her gardening, her writing, and her recipes.

I see from my stats that I'm getting something like 25 views a day and only 3 members of my family read the blog (mom, dad, and VPH).  I have some loyal readers and commenters -- Layanee and Gina -- but who are the rest of you and how did you get here?  Don't get me wrong, I'm gratified that people find this humble offering interesting enough to read and return to, but the control freak in me is dying to know who you are!