Button for Reading New Garden Blog Posts

I recently added a button to my Internet Explorer toolbar that cycles through all the garden blogs which have new posts. This way, I don't have to check in with every blog in my blogroll to see if there's a new post. The button only takes me to the new posts which I haven't yet read. It's the best!!! Below are instructions for adding this button, but first, here's my Sweet 100 Hybrid Tomato plant on the front patio. It's still blooming!!! It's a must for next year.



How To Add a Button to IE for Checking new Garden Blog Posts

First, sign up for Google Reader. It takes 5 seconds. Once you have an account, begin subscribing to all the blogs you follow. This part takes less than 5 seconds per subscription because you just type in the url and hit Enter.

Google Reader allows you to organize all the blogs you've subscribed to...so the next step is to make a folder called Garden Blogs (or whatever you choose) and put all the blogs into the folder. This part will take 30 seconds.

Then, in Google Reader, go to Manage Subscriptions -> Goodies -> Put Reader in Bookmark. This part takes 10 seconds.

Since my homepage is iGoogle, I added my Garden Blogs Subscription to my iGoogle page.