It’s that time of the week again, where I find the awesome online and bring it to you.

First off, the ever-brilliant Michael King from Perennial Meadows advises that this is the time of year to scatter seeds of all those old-fashioned biennial cottage garden favorites. Biennials, of course, grow foliage one year and flowers the next (and then die). Foxgloves, Canterbury bells, forget-me-nots, and some unusual ones, which he goes into in greater detail.

For me, biennials are a good way of filling in the bare spaces while you wait for a new shrub to grow, and a cheap way of getting what feels like annual color with less expense and effort. Throw seeds out, forget, enjoy. Who knew a cottage garden could employ such a minimalist philosophy?

Then, Fern Richardson over at Life on the Balcony tells you about the simple process of making your own liquid fertilizer for container plants,  from a variety of organic fertilizers. This is great because there are so few truly organic liquid fertilizers on the market, but organics have synthetics beat when it comes to plant health and how long the fertilizers last in the soil. And

Last but not least, Alan Burke over at the APLD blog shows his rockstar side by posting his garden playlist, complete with YouTube links so you can get your groove on! I love, LOVE garden-inspired playlists.

Go on over, check out his playlist, and post any additions in the comments. I did!

That’s it for this week – as always, feel free to post a link in the comments if you’ve seen anything cool recently!