From the monthly archives:
A new certified organic hydroponic greenhouse in St. Louis, Missouri has recently opened providing the St. Louis metro area with fresh herbs and, in the future, vegetables. The new operation supplies restaurants, grocery stores and farmers markets with garden fresh produce in less than 48 hours after harvesting. [click to continue…]
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Britney Spears has tried yoga, seen numerous counselors and even experimented with mysticism but nothing has worked like gardening to keep her on the straight and narrow. While on tour she bones up on gardening by reading books on the spiritual aspects of the hobby.
Photo/Graphic credit: The Sun online
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The way some of these mega multi-national corporations act, is more like the mafia than a legal business. Organic Consumers Association reports of intimidation against the lead researcher of the study showing the most popular glyphosate herbicide in the world could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses.
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With the interest in organic gardening comes an increased interest in compost, the simple magic of turning food waste and other materials like straw, paper, leaves, grass clippings, etc. into humus, one of the plant nutrients and soil enhancers of organic gardening. It is only natural then that a week is dedicated to compost and raising people’s awareness of it. [click to continue…]
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This is from a “foodie” site and shows how gardening and food blogs are merging into a synergistic oneness; since we all gotta eat, it might as well be fresh and good!
The gallery of ten different container gardens give inspiring ideas for growing veggies in small spaces on patios or backyards.
Photo credit: tashian’s flickr photostream
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I am a do it yourself kind of guy; even though I can’t cut a straight line with either a hand saw or power saw. So I am lucky I have four acres to plant in the open ground. The one drawback of not having frames is certain grasses and weeds send runners underground into the bed which then sprout up in the bed. [click to continue…]
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Applications are now available for grants from the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (Western SARE) program. [click to continue…]
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A growing number of gardeners realize the value of compost and are starting to compost their table scraps and kitchen waste. From WebEcoist are 22 things you may not have known that you can compost.
Photo credit: WebEcoist.com
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To order the new Hydroponic Tomato Crop Production book by Dr. Lynette Morgan click below:
Hydroponics Dictionary
