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• Squash family not forming fruit?

  
  Aussie Organic Gardening — Authority: 112
  The squash or Cucurbit family that includes chokoes, cucumbers, grammas, gourds, pumpkins, rockmelons, squash, watermelons, and zucchinis, produce both male and female flowers on the same plant, and rely on insects, such as bees, to pollinate the female flowers and produce fruit. (Although we eat many of this family ...
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• Greenhouse: Nov. 6th, 2009

  
  Eat Close To Home — Authority: 115
  As of today (Nov. 19), the kale is bigger, and the green beans (in the cold frame) are blooming. The total pea harvest has been 7 pea pods…but wow, is it cool to see blooms in November! There’s also some Purple Peacock Broccoli and Happy Rich greens (like rapini) sprouting between the leeks and the cold frame – ...
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  Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder — Authority: 100
  
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• Organic Gardening 101: 5 Tips for Avoiding Seed Catalog Overspend

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 633
  Seed catalogs are a sore temptation to every gardener. But unless youre careful, you can end up with a large bill, and a whole bunch of seeds that will never make it into the ground. Heres how to avoid seed catalog overspend.
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• Organic Gardening 101: 5 Tips for Avoiding Seed Catalog Overspend

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 633
  Seed catalogs are a sore temptation to every gardener. But unless youre careful, you can end up with a large bill, and a whole bunch of seeds that will never make it into the ground. Heres how to avoid seed catalog overspend.
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• Food Gardeners Forum

  
  Hills and Plains Seedsavers — Authority: 120
  Growing your own food? Needing some inspiration?? Come along to the Summer FOOD GARDENER’S FORUM                      at FERN AVE COMMUNITY GARDEN    Fullarton Wednesday 2nd December 2009 10am to 12.30pm Inspiring guest speakers to discuss the vital importance of food ...
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• Avert a Food Crisis: 5 Tips for Saving Phosphorus in the Garden

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 633
  Phosphorus is a prescious resource that is increasingly scarse supply. That could mean serious trouble for our global food system. But there are things we can do to keep the phosphorus cycling in our soils.
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• 5 Must-Have Books for Urban Gardeners

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 633
  Here are five great books for the urban gardener in your life.
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• Sustainable Living and You: November APLS Carnival

  
  Greening Families — Authority: 110
  Photo by tatlin Greening Families is pleased to be hosting November’s APLS Blog Carnival . I’ve appreciated the conversations on sustainability and green living that the APLS Blog Carnival has sparked so am glad for the opportunity to directly support their continuation. If you are interested in serving as a ...
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• Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 474
  Steven Trudell, PhD, and Joe Ammirati, PhD, know their ’shrooms. Authors of the recently released Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest , Trudell is an affiliate professor of forest resources and lecturer in biology, while Ammirati is a professor of biology who specializes in mycology (the study of mushrooms). Both ...
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• Jacob Kenedys perfect prawn and treviso gratinati

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Authentic Italian recipe for radiccio from the brilliant young Bocca di Lupo chef I am in the Veneto region of Italy, where I have been photographing a cookery book for London restaurant Bocca di Lupo . We start out in Genoa and then north through the rolling hills of Piedmont in full autumn colour to Alba (with an ...
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• Sun and heat protection

  
  Aussie Organic Gardening — Authority: 112
  The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted ‘El Nino’ conditions until the end of January, which will translate into drier conditions for SE Queensland and most of NSW. Some parts of Australia have been enduring extremely hot weather recently and, apparently, there is more to come. Last summer, a period of intense ...
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• Wollemi pine update 2

  
  Aussie Organic Gardening — Authority: 112
  Being away, and catching up on farm work, has caused me to fall behind with my blog posts, so I am a bit slow in relaying news about my Wollemi pine. Following a light application of worm castings as fertiliser a couple of weeks ago, my comatose Wollemi pine has demonstrated a renewed will to live, and produced a ...
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• Growing sweet potatoes

  
  down---to---earth — Authority: 524
  Weve recently planted three sweet potato plants. We have the golden one but there are also white and purple types. Sweet potatoes are a very good crop to grow if youre in a warm climate. They wont grow in the cold. You can easily grow sweet potato from a store bought tuber. You should buy an organic tuber not ...
  6 days ago

• Fantastic Mrs Fox

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Sharing the site with the pretty vixen, pigeons, slugs and snails Saw the evidence of the fox before I saw her. Grey matted pigeon feathers scattered at the bottom of the steps. Sometimes feel like killing the pigeons myself, or more likely, finding a more effective way to discourage them. They have joined with the ...
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• Want good compost? Pee on it

  
  Granite Geek — Authority: 136
  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 ...
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• Easy Gardening Tips

  
  Gardening In Our Backyard Garden — Authority: 124
  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 ...
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• Potting Time (34 Days)

  
  A posse ad esse — Authority: 100
  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 ...
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• Amaranth: Cooking with this Super Grain

  
  Green Talk — Authority: 116
  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 ...
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• The Truth About Organic Gardening - Book Review

  
  Green (Living) Review — Authority: 134
  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 ...
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