From the monthly archives:

September 2009

In Rome, Garden Bed On Wheels Moved To Follow Sun

September 29, 2009 urban gardening

“The Roman Emperor Tiberius developed such an insatiable appetite for
cucumbers – he demanded them on his table every day – that he made his
gardeners plant them in beds raised on wheels, and then wheeling them
round so that they followed the sun.” From July 30th Weird Fact of the Day.
Hat tip of thanks to Happy Humus [...]

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Michael Pollan In Madison, Wisconsin

September 28, 2009 Compost

On the Daily Kos, Jill Richardson writes, “Michael Pollan visited Madison, Wisconsin this weekend. So did I. Madison is called ‘The Berkeley of the Midwest’ and they have what I think is the best farmers’ market in the U.S. As you’d expect, most Madisonians absolutely loved Pollan, a Berkeley professor (as well as a bestselling [...]

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The Private Life Of Plants

September 28, 2009 Media

Noted British documentary maker David Attenbourough, in 1995 produced a program for the BBC titled The Private Life of Plants. It was a video study of the growth, movement, reproduction and survival of plants. Through time lapsed footage it shows various plant’s growth stages and how they can be gently dancing or be aggressive. The [...]

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More Of The Garden Tour From Hell

September 27, 2009 What's Growing

After three hours of just standing around and chatting with each other, the stranded garden writers were starting to get bored or was it stir crazy?
The tow truck, “Oliver” kept trying to pull the bus out of the ditch but only made it more stuck… after some more “good ol’ boys” drove up they decided [...]

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The Garden Tour From Hell

September 27, 2009 What's Growing

This was the last day of the Garden Writers Association’s garden tours with two different tours available—one to private ornamental landscape gardens and one to sustainable food gardens. I picked the sustainable food tour. Hmmm, bad selection.
The tour started out at A. J. Bullard’s rural farm of a diverse selection of fruit and nut trees—many [...]

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GWA Trade Show

September 24, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Today was the second day of the Garden Writers Association symposium but last day of the trade show exhibit. This is where garden product companies give away samples and pitch their products to the garden writers with a glimmer of hope that a few of the garden writers will write something positive about their product. [...]

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Plant Based Diet—Cure For Cancer?

September 24, 2009 vegetables

Kathy Freston, on The Huffington Post, writes, “In the next few months, I will share a series of interviews I’ve conducted with the preeminent doctors and nutritional researchers in the fields of their respective expertise. And here it is straight out: they are all saying the same thing in different ways and through multiple and [...]

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40 Farmers Under 40

September 24, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

From the Mother Nature Network, “After we published the original roundup of ‘40 farmers under 40,’ it became abundantly clear that, from coast to coast, America loves its young farmers (and the food they produce). So we invited you to tell us about your favorite farmers under 40 — idealistic, eco-friendly, under-the-hill agrarians who are [...]

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Judge Rejects Approval Of Biotech Sugar Beets

September 24, 2009 Farm/Garden Politics

The New York Times is reporting that, “a federal judge has ruled that the government failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of genetically engineered sugar beets before approving the crop for cultivation in the United States. The decision could lead to a ban on the planting of the beets, which have been widely adopted [...]

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Northeast Tomato Blight Probably Won’t Survive On To Next Year To Strike Again

September 24, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Plant pathologists from university agricultural departments are saying this year’s early tomato blight that effected many northeast gardeners this year is not a type that will hide in the soil to attack again next summer.
Two different strains of blight must appear in a field and then mate to produce the kind of spores that can [...]

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