Susan Harris, Takoma Park garden writer and one of the four faces behind the successful Garden Rant blog, has officially begun blogging for Homestead Gardens, the nationally known lawn and garden center in Davidsonville.

Harris, who also writes the Sustainable and Urban Gardening blog, says she will "be covering national gardening news, features about interesting people like the stars of HGTV and PBS gardening shows, author interviews, book reviews, fun websites and blogs, great public gardens in the region and across the U.S., videos, and whatever strikes my fancy."

Also writing for the Homestead blog, which went on line Wednesday, is Gene Sumi, Homestead's "answer man" for any and all garden questions, and Rita Calvert, founder of Buy Fresh, Buy Local Chesapeake.

Check out Susan's first post and get more information about her partners in this enterprise.  But come back to Garden Variety when you are done!