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June 2009

Burpee Seeds Says America Needs A New National Flower: Rose Out; Sunflower In

June 30, 2009 Farm/Garden Politics

George Ball, chairman of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., one of the largest seed companies in the U.S., recently called for replacing the current national flower, the rose, with a new one, the sunflower.

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Los Angeles Gardening Business Is Booming

June 30, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

This type of business is sprouting up all over the U.S. It goes by different names: garden coaches, personal gardeners, garden trainers, garden gurus or garden consultants. In all areas of the country, unlike the rest of the economy, this type of business is booming.

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CNN Says: Urban Farming Movement Like A Revolution

June 30, 2009 Compost

HABESHA Gardens in Atlanta is in the neighborhood known as Mechanicsville, one of high crime and unemployment. It also doesn’t have a grocery store in the neighborhood. So some residents started Helping Africa By Establishing Schools at Home and Abroad (HABESHA) as a way to empower the youth and the poor in the area.

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Those Veggies In Your Garden Are Worth Big Bucks

June 28, 2009 Organics

A Maine gardener, has calculated that in his 1,600 square foot garden, his tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, salad greens or strawberries, saved him $1,200 if he had purchased those items in a grocery store all growing season.

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Shopping In A Retail Hydroponic Store Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

June 27, 2009 Hydroponics

Shopping for gardening supplies in a retail hydroponic store can be stressful enough for backyard gardeners, what with the stigma of society’s assumption of the type of plants you are growing by shopping there, but this incident at the Alameda County Hydroponics store makes it downright dangerous.

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Weeds, Grass In Particular, Are Driving Me Nuts!

June 27, 2009 Organics

In a recent newspaper article, Ann Lovejoy, a gardening guru of the Pacific Northwest, says deep mulching leads to victory over weeds. I agree with her, that deep mulching controls common weeds… but I have several varieties of grass (no not the smoking kind) that send runners out like bamboo that are impossible to control [...]

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Women’s Voices Makes Plants Grow Faster

June 27, 2009 sustainable gardening

I talk to my plants regularly, especially when first putting them into the ground. But it turns out, they may not be listening to me ’cause I am a guy…

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Upside Down Veggie Growing

June 27, 2009 Hydroponics

Step by step instructions on how to build and install self watering upside down Earthbox type containers on your patio. There is no waste run off of the irrigation water to the plants. Aesthetics aside, they seem to work pretty well for growing veggies upside down.
Photo credit: The Instructables.com

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Doug Green Shows How To Build A Tomato Support

June 25, 2009 Garden Blog

In many parts of the country, tomato plants are getting to the size that they need some support of a stake or trellis. Keeping the fruit off the ground prevents the tomatoes from cracking, getting eaten by slugs, attacked by fungus or black mold and just makes for a neater plant appearance.
Doug Green, from his [...]

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Conspiracy Theories And The White House Garden

June 24, 2009 Compost

Conspiracy lovers are claiming that the recently harvested veggies from the White House garden were fake. The conspiracy theorists say there is no way the veggies could have grown that big in only 90 days.
They say the Obamas substituted mature plants in the garden for immature ones to fool gullible citizens of America. What will [...]

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