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Want good compost? Pee on it
Granite Geek —
Authority: 134
BBC has a terrific story ( read it here ) about gardeners at a National Trust property in Britain (roughly equivalent to a National Historic Site here) getting their male employees to urinate on hay bales, which are used to speed up the composting process. The story has lots of great tidbits, including: They don’t ...20 hours ago -
Easy Gardening Tips
Gardening In Our Backyard Garden —
Authority: 123
Some people enjoy a nice and simple flower garden, while others like to fill their garden full of all the statues and trinkets they can find. However, there is perhaps no more rewarding of a gardening experience than that of a vegetable garden .When you grow your own vegetables you and your family will surely taste ...1 day ago -
Potting Time (34 Days)
A posse ad esse —
Authority: 99
So then, tired of these cloning posts yet? Well, the final phase of the actual cloning process has finished for the most part so you may be in for a break from them. The roots that had begun to poke out at the time of the last update have come out in force now. The stems of tomato plants that I left in water to root ...1 day ago -
Amaranth: Cooking with this Super Grain
Green Talk —
Authority: 115
A Young Amaranth Plant This year I decided to plant Amaranth, a highly nutritious grain. I saw its ornamental cousin last year and flipped at how beautiful this plant was. My husband tells me that I grow to grow. It does not matter if I intend to eat it. I enjoy the pleasures of watching a plant grow into its ...2 days ago -
The Truth About Organic Gardening - Book Review
Green (Living) Review —
Authority: 130
Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro) The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks, and the Bottom Line By Jeff Gillman 208 pages, paperback, 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches Published by Timber Press, February 1, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0881928624 Price: $12.95 Gardeners and farmers tend to assume that any ...2 days ago -
How to Recycle Leaves in Your Yard
Danny Lipford —
Authority: 135
Leaves are nature’s perfect mulch. Every year, our friendly neighborhood shade trees remind us that Mother Nature has a mind of her own, as the leaves begin to flutter down and cover the ground like a crunchy snowstorm. Left to their own devices, those leaves would form a dense mat under the tree, choking out ...2 days ago -
Best Gardening Techniques
Gardening In Our Backyard Garden —
Authority: 123
Image by Peter Blanchard via Flickr Some people enjoy a nice and simple flower garden, while others like to fill their garden full of all the statues and trinkets they can find. However, there is perhaps no more rewarding of a gardening experience than that of a vegetable garden .When you grow your own ...2 days ago -
FRESH the Movie Thursday 12th November.
Hills and Plains Seedsavers —
Authority: 119
Hi everyone, Kate from the Western A Price Foundation Group from Adelaide has asked me to forward this information to you. Transition Adelaide West presents… A movie celebrating farmers, thinkers and business people who are re-inventing our food system. www.freshthemovie.com 12 Th ...3 days ago -
Big changes at the kitchen sink
down---to---earth —
Authority: 510
Ive come full circle. I started off my dish cleaning duties as a young girl when my sister and I had to dry when mum washed up. I grew up doing that and now I recall it fondly as a time of family conversations, pushing my sister (she reads my blog and shell probably add more to that) and sometimes, only sometimes, ...3 days ago -
Slugs and snails and gardening tales
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 983
Cold hands and warm hearts at the allotment Saturday morning, 7am. Not yet 7 degrees C. The first properly cold morning since early spring. My fingers quickly chill as I pick through rain-soaked salad leaves for lunch for our good friend Charlie. There has been a lot of heavy showers lately, which has brought about ...4 days ago -
Organic: Don Burke’s Guide to Growing Organic Food – Don Burke
BookOffers.com.au —
Authority: 146
Organic: Don Burke’s Guide to Growing Organic Food is a practical guide with step-by-step instructions, case studies and photographs to assist in growing your own successful organic vegetable garden by top Aussie gardner Don Burke. As a six-year-old he started his own vegetable garden under the watchful eyes of ...4 days ago -
Horse manure
Aussie Organic Gardening —
Authority: 106
One of our SA readers wants to know what to do about the weeds that sprout from their horse manure pile, as she is concerned about spreading the weeds through her garden. She also has a problem with millipedes. Interestingly, manure and millipedes have a relationship because millipedes feed on decaying organic matter ...4 days ago -
The Dangers of Pesticides
Buy Organic —
Authority: 108
Pesticides are chemicals which are sprayed on plants to kill pests (usually bugs), that threaten to eat the plants or cause damage to them. Now, it is true that bugs used to do a significant amount of damage to goods every year, and it is true that this did, in a small part, cut into the profits made by the big-time ...4 days ago -
Making Liquid Soap
down---to---earth —
Authority: 510
Well ladies and gentlemen, Ive made my own liquid soap, tested it for a few weeks, and now Im happy to recommend it to you. Ive tried several versions of homemade grated soap, I added glycerin to it, boiled it, and tried every which way but it was always horrible to use. Slimy, ugh. What I was after was a liquid ...4 days ago -
You can grow lemons indoors!
Eat Close To Home —
Authority: 112
Ok, I think I know what my winter project is…starting an indoor citrus orchard! http://simple-green-frugal-co-op.blogspot.com/2009/11/grow-your-own-citrus-meyer-lemons.html4 days ago -
Wild in the country
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 983
In search of Surrey penny buns and pine plantations Saturday afternoon: another visit to old friend Gillians garden bordering on the sandy Surrey heathland (and yes, Deborah, I finally found the dierama seeds you entrusted me to pass on to her). There is a ritual to these visits: first worldclass flapjack and then ...5 days ago -
Savoring The Fruits Of Your Work In An Organic Vegetable Garden.
Gardening Resources —
Authority: 136
There are lots of challenges to overcome for anyone who tries to create an organic vegetable garden. The process could take several seasons, but when you finally get results you’ll be able to enjoy homegrown veggies that are not only tasty but very healthy too. From a technological point of view, organic gardening ...6 days ago -
veggie beds: rage against the weeds
Society Garlic —
Authority: 115
"Speckles" butterhead lettuceIn this case, horseherb was the main culprit. I like horseherb as a groundcover in other parts of the yard, but I most definitely did not like it smothering my veggie seedlings. It was my fault for letting it get so out of control. Aargh. Usually I do my weeding quietly with a big glass of ...1 week ago -
The Politics of Seeds: 75% of the Seed Marketplace Controlled by Four Companies
TreeHugger —
Authority: 727
photo: J. Novak If I were to reference "the big four" in passing you would likely assume I was talking about cars, software companies, or maybe airlines. But unfortunately in this instance youd be wrong. Scary as it may be, 75 percent of the seeds sold come from four companies, according to Michael Olson from Food ...1 week ago -
The Benefits of WWOOFing
The Newsbase —
Authority: 128
Farmer, FarmerPut away that DDTGive me spots on my applesBut leave me the birds and the beesPlease!-Joni Mitchell “Big Yellow Taxi”What is WWOOFing?WWOOFing is Willing Workers On Organic Farms, or WorldWide Opportunities On Organic Farms. However you want to call it, it’s a first-rate program that gets young ...1 week ago
