In the gardening surveys I have seen this year, all of them report a double digit increase in people planning on growing a vegetable garden this year. [click to continue…]
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From the monthly archives:
February 2009
Growing crops in vertical containers enables Vertical Paradise Farm to produce more crops in the same amount of space as on the ground growers do. [click to continue…]
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SoCal Aquaponics, located 60 miles east of Los Angeles, is a major producer of tilapia and barramundi fish and shrimp. The waste from the fish is circulated to the hydroponic systems growing vegetables which filters and “polishes” the water and is recirculated back to the fish tanks. [click to continue…]
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Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses magazine reports growing berry fruit in the off-season is highly profitable. Mike Nichols looks at berry fruit production in Mexico and reports that it should be possible to produce blueberries, raspberries and blackberries in greenhouses year-round in Australasia, provided low chill varieties are used and that they are grown in an evergreen manner.
Photo Credit: Mike Nichols/Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses Magazine
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When the greenhouse arrived, the backyard of this gardener was giving him a form of gardening claustrophobia; so with advice from a Chelsea gold medal winning designer, things became orderly again as seen in the picture above.
Photo credit: Lila Das Gupta/www.growingingreenhouses.com
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Less than 10 percent of the volcanic Cape Verde archipelago is cultivable and almost all of the country’s food is imported, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. A small group of agriculturalists say it is possible to boost food production and cut malnutrition in Cape Verde by farming with less water – and no soil.
Photo credit: Alex Alper/IRIN
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Will Allen started Growing Power in a rundown section of Milwaukee as a place where he could grow his dreams of healthy food for the urban poor. [click to continue…]
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By Al Cooper
In a world in which few things are certain, there is something reassuring in knowing that the garden seeds we sow this spring will, with appropriate care, reward us with the exact plant variety advertised on the package.
In fact, each of those seeds carries an indelible internal road map of its entire history. If it is an open-pollinated variety that is a non-hybrid that “memory” may be hundreds or even thousands of years old. [click to continue…]
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