Welcome to the Mahoney's Blog!

Yes, Mahoney’s Garden Center has a blog, but it’s for you, the gardeners of New England. It’s for beginners and experts, for gardeners who grow food, gardeners who grow plants for their beauty, and wildlife gardeners, too. The Mahoney’s team is using the blog to promote the great gardening and greening going on around us, and sometimes we just have fun. (Contests!)

Here you’ll find stories about:

• Timely gardening how-to information
• Tips and staff favorites from our in-house experts, plus “Meet the Staff” profiles of the Mahoney’s teamMahoney’s Brighton Staff
• Great gardening and greening programs and events in our region
• Favorite public gardens to visit
• Reviews of gardening books, magazines, websites, podcasts and TV shows
• New research findings that’ll help readers
• The latest ideas for gardening sustainably

Here’s what you won’t find here

• Advertising copy.
• Hard sell.

Our Blogging Team

• Mike Mahoney, who heads up our vegetable-growing operation, and Peter Vera, our visual merchandiser (a/k/a “style guru”)Blog contributors Peter Vera (L), and Mike Mahoney
• Sara diPalermo in our Brighton location.
• More Mahoney’s folks will be contributing soon - Paul Mancuso, garden products manager James Redding, James Hohmann of our Brighton location, and head grower Dan Cousins.
• Weekly local blogger is Layanee DeMerchant.She’s well known to New England gardeners as one of the Garden Guys on Boston radio.
• Our regular national blogger is Susan Harris, co-founder of the popular national team blog GardenRant. Susan’s also a gardening coach, so you’ll be seeing lots of her coaching here.
• Monthly we feature Special Guest Bloggers - well known, respected writers and other authorities in gardening, horticulture, or design, most of them New England-based.

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