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| 0 | Water by the drip: Installing drip irrigation can be as easy as laying a hose on the ground, or as elaborate as planning an overseas vacation....be wound among plants in bed. Excellent for shrubs, vegetable gardens. Can be covered with mulch. Considered permanent; can be left out all seasons. Many all-in-one kits available. Can easily add hose when needed."" Emitters are preset, usually 12 or 18... |
| 0 | Utah County prisoners digging their outdoor duty..."Inmates break for lunch after spending the morning working in the vegetable garden at the Utah County Jail in Spanish Fork. The Jail's vegetable garden produced 41 tons of produce last year. (Rick Egan / Salt Lake Tribune)"" SPANISH FORK - Like many... |
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| 0 | PROCTOR: Expand your borders, upsize your beds...to call them - are too small. Whether they're beds, which implies they're for annual "bedding" plants, or borders, which generally hold perennials, they usually need enlarging. Now's the time.""Most beds and borders seem to be shallow strips of vegetation... |
| 0 | Ag experts predict state farmers will follow national trends and ......more soybeans and less corn than a year ago, as they return to their usual crop rotation practices and weigh input costs -- such as seed, fertilizer and fuel. """Corn acreage (in this area) probably will be down slightly because of rotation and the cost o... |
| 0 | Manure: You may be walking on it soon...from semisolid plant residue.""The solids have some known uses, such as for animal bedding and potting soil. Agricultural scientists would like to find more."""We really need to think outside the box on what uses for manure are," said Wendy Powers, a... |
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| 0 | The book on Dorothy...constantly, which gets costly if you don't do it yourself.""Silver saw palmetto, a clumping, tall ground cover/shrub found in coastal areas of the southeastern states, is becoming increasingly important as a landscape palm and for its food and health... |
| 0 | Garden Festival takes over State Capitol Complex...of Charleston will be available for purchase all day.""Concurrent workshop topics include "Growing Various Tropical Epiphytic Plants," "Going Green in the Garden," "West Virginia Native Orchids; "Organic Gardening and Other Bits and Pieces to Protect... |
| 0 | Palms add distinctive Southern look to landscape...have smaller leaves. ""The ideal soil for growing most palms is well-drained, fertile and slightly acidic. In many areas around Augusta, soils are heavy, poorly drained and extremely acidic. Fortunately, many palms that are native to swampy areas will do... |
| 0 | Garden Festival takes over State Capitol Complex..."The New American Kitchen Garden," "Step by Step Organic Flower Gardening," "Step by Step Organic Vegetable Gardening" and "The Cook's Garden." He also has written numerous articles for magazines such as The American Gardener, National Gardening, Martha... |
| 0 | New forage, hay varieties offer promise of drought tolerance...Mont. ?We sell a lot of grass seed for CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) blends, some ground cover like around grain bins and lawn grass, as well.?""?Drought is always a challenge,? said Erickson. In addition to weather, seed producers have found new... |
| 0 | Jeff Gillman Tells The Truth About Organic Gardens..."Jeff Gillman believes in the bedrock idea of organic gardening: that maintaining healthy soil, full of organic matter and beneficial micro-organisms that release nutrients to plants, is the way to make plants thrive."" But he's bothered by what organic... |
| 0 | Students can find potential careers at Big Red Summer Camps...equipment. For more information and to register for the course, visit ""--June 15 to 20: Landscape Design, ninth to 12th grade. Participants will learn how to blend design with science and environment to create beautiful and functional landscapes. ""--Jun... |
| 0 | YARDSMART: Thanks to the greenhouse, bromeliads bloom for all...may or may not have roots attached. Either way, plant it gently into a new pot with soil similar to that of the mother plant. Keep moist and give the pup the same lighting and it will mature into a new blooming plant that will flower identically to the... |
| 0 | Annual Mill Valley tour highlights designer's colorful, eclectic style...home as well as five others. Other houses include one with a terraced vegetable and herb garden; a cozy 1916 cottage with panoramic views of downtown Mill Valley and Richardson Bay; a newly remodeled home with clean lines, views and an antique Medusa pool... |
| 0 | Cafe Society: Hollywood shows up at McGrath stand debut...to lima beans and, more recently, to such "sustainable" growing methods as crop rotation and companion planting. Coming next (perhaps as soon as April): the introduction of a CSA, or community supported agriculture, program that each week will provide a... |
| 0 | Sound gardening: Salad garden...in. Parsley and herbs at the back door are a lazy cook's delight. ""Lots of containers work for a miniature vegetable garden. Good options are half-barrels, pots, window boxes, retired wheelbarrows or the great, new self-watering containers that come in a... |
| 0 | Leave world a better place...also produces a nutrient-rich soil that improves the texture of poorer soil. Adding compost and mulch improves soil's drainage and increases water holding capacity.""Collecting rainwater in buckets and rain barrels will reduce a gardener's dependency on... |
| 0 | Gardening: Haven on earth?...to give a clean line to the grass that buts on to them.""Then, they could mulch the hedges every autumn that would provide much-needed humus for the fast-draining soil. Brian had used coarse wood chips as a mulch, but these take a long time to break down... |
| 0 | Discovered: Veggies, by design...move-up, but that isn't Larkcom's focus. She's more concerned with beauty and productivity in the vegetable garden, no matter what its size."" No excuses, in other words, for not investing the same thought (and stress) in this part of our garden as we do... |
| 0 | In the garden: Take a flavorful, fragrant creative herbal journey...harvest, such as basil and lemon verbena. These ideas and lists will help personalize an herb garden. Some of the basics: Organic and natural are a must when growing and caring for edibles in the garden. What goes on the plants eventually goes in the body... |
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