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| 0 | 'History Detective' visits Cleveland today...Coventry Township Hall, 68 Portage Lakes Drive. Master Gardener Lee Paulson will talk about heirloom vegetable gardening and general gardening techniques, and will answer questions about flower gardening. Information: 330-644-4249."" Monday through... |
| 0 | Buy as much mower as needed...to deter weeds, hold in moisture and encourage deep, healthy root systems. Clippings are best mulched ? chopped into fine pieces that fall back on the grass and quickly decompose, nourishing the lawn. Regular sharpening makes mowing easier and is better... |
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| 0 | hellebores bloom even through frost...also counts. The color hellebores add to the snow or frost can really cheer up winter-weary gardeners, says Gene Bush, who, with his wife, JoAn, owns Munchkin Nursery & Gardens in Depauw, Ind."""They are as close to cast iron as you will find in a plant,"... |
| 0 | SLAM Exploration Ltd.: Drilling Underway at Ontario Gold Project...0.5m. The zone is open eastward and westward and is associated with a 500m long humus anomaly.""SLAM holds an option to earn 70% interest in the Miminiska-Keezhik gold property located east of the former gold mining town of Pickle Lake in the Uchi... |
| 0 | 10 design pointers to brighten your space...the garden a vibrancy that is missing in monoculture. Combine big wide leaves with strappy foliage; pair orange and purple; plant a shrub with stiff, spreading branches next to an upright shock of grass. Live it up!""There's always more room in the garden... |
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| 0 | Trowels at the ready...local gardens just yet. And area experts are predicting that because of this year's prolonged winter, spring gardening will likely be one to three weeks behind, as nurseries, home gardeners and spring flowers struggle to catch up. But still, there are at... |
| 0 | Woman dishes the dirt on perennials...at amazon.com, as well as at ldanda.com, the Web site for Shafer's Genoa Township-based business, Landscape Design & Associates. It can also be special-ordered through Borders Books & Music.""Shafer moved to Livingston County about 11 years ago from... |
| 0 | Waste not what garden gives for free...a potentially valuable commodity. Gardeners buy huge quantities of organic matter, in the form of mulch and soil amendments, overlooking all of the material our gardens provide for free. In other words, we're buying back what we just paid to throw away.... |
| 0 | Green Gulch gardener cultivates passions...gardener - a woman whose life is expressed through one of the most incredible organic vegetable gardens in Northern California. For nearly three decades, she has been cultivating the foggy fields of the Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center, which graces a... |
| 0 | Brassicas guarantee veg supply all year round...are not difficult to grow but they do present one of two challenges to the organic gardener and a bit of planning is required to get a good crop.""Many of the familiar brassicas have a long growing season which overlaps from one year into the second and... |
| 0 | Good Morning Lowcountry...chain fern, ebony spleenwort and resurrection fern.""Our other favorite fern is the resurrection fern, an epiphyte that lives on the branches of hardwoods, like live oak and cypress, and is a good indicator of drought. Resurrection ferns dry up in drought... |
| 0 | Multimedia on Organic Agriculture Launched in Eastern Cuba...and the exploitation of soils."" It also addresses the significance of organic fertilizers like worm humus, compost, as well as other techniques like animal traction, and biological pest and disease control."" The multimedia provides ideas on how to build... |
| 0 | Farmers adjust to record corn prices...With the input costs for corn so high, we decided not to break our normal crop rotation.?""Many farmers, state and nationwide, did adjust their crop rotation last year to take advantage of $4 corn, subtracting acreage that would have gone toward soybeans,... |
| 0 | Be careful with fresh wood chips in the garden...the heat of decomposition doesn't harm the bark.""Horticulturist Jessica Walliser, co-author of the books "Grow Organic" and "A Gardener's Journal," can be heard from 7-9 a.m. Sundays on KDKA Radio's "The Organic Gardeners." You can also find her teaching... |
| 0 | Yard need color? Plant coleus...they receive sufficient light and food. Your coleus should be planted in a light, quick-draining potting soil.""Plants may be grown in the garden in bright, indirect light, or in partial shade. The lower growing dwarf varieties (6 to 12 inches) will creat... |
| 0 | Why hydrangeas lure thieves...6 to 5), but there are exceptions. New Endless Summer and white "Annabelle" are very hardy to USDA Zone 4. Blue "Penny Mac" and "Nikko Blue" are two examples of forms that take winters to Zone 5. Varieties suited to your garden will be available in large... |
| 0 | Don't spread on me...not grow well because they have a lot of sandy soils,? Hess says.""Laura Stine, senior landscape designer at Neuhouser, says that nursery has been pruning invasives and stocking up on natives.""It no longer sells most of the plants on a list of plants... |
| 0 | Home and Garden News - 2005 Article Archive...Forest creates authentic stone, bronze, copper and wood products for the bath, kitchen, garden and landscape. Designs for these natural pieces are based on Japanese tradition...""As you prepare to decorate for the holidays, consider some of these tips... |
| 0 | Garden Planning and Planting: Potatoes...dirt up over the potatoes might want to experiment with yield on this intensive and companion planting method.""Your certified cut seed potato is best planted with 3 sprouts. Be careful in removing the potato from the bag and avoid rough handling as you... |
| 0 | Spread your ashes, but keep them off rhodies...ashes in a thin layer over these two, or lightly dust the soil in your vegetable garden or compost pile. Some gardeners suggest making a circle of wood ashes around hosta plants to keep the slugs away. This has not worked in my garden, but then I grow... |
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