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Propaganda Art for WWI and WWII: 18 Fantastic Victory Garden Posters
To ensure enough food for American service members and civilians, the U.S. government promoted home gardening as a patriotic gesture that would also support those on the home front contending with food rationing.
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IKEA Growroom Is A DIY Sustainable Garden For City Dwellers
:Last week, IKEA released the plans for its latest innovation, The Growroom, a spherical multi-level garden that can grow enough food for an entire neighborhood. The plans are online and can be downloaded for free. The IKEA Growroom comes from Space10, the company's in-house design lab dedicated to creating future products. The IKEA Growroom doesn't come
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Backyard Gardening - You Can Do It!
So, you love the idea of growing your own vegetables, but you don’t know where to start, right? Maybe you’re intrigued by the satisfaction of eating food you’ve grown, or creating meals for your family that are nutritious, or maybe even saving money on your grocery bill. Whatever the reason is, we’re here to help!
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My bonsai are thickening up in the soil
Most of my trees are still growing thicker. I plan on chopping all of these back to stumps in a year or two, and seating them in large pots as I regrow the primary branches or the next thinner stage of the trunk line. Grown in SE Pennsylvania, USDA zone 6B
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Got Blackspot? Get Milk.
While inspecting my roses the other day, I discovered that some of the shrubs are showing signs of “blackspot.” Details about this insidious fungal disease, and why — according to extensive research — a weekly spray of milk and water is the smartest way to control it
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I’ve finally made friends with a hedgehog – and you can too
I’ve just tripped over the damned hedgehog for the second time in as many days.
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Getting tomatoes to ripen without going soft
Targeting one gene helps keep the plant's cell wall intact for longer.
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Why all civilised people should love wasps
All gardeners, and all readers, have reason to thank them. By Simon Barnes.
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15 Sustainable Gardening Ideas
Sustainable Gardening means gardening in a smart and eco-friendly way. It’s all about giving back to mother nature by using organic growing methods so you use less chemicals and adopt more greener alternatives when you’re gardening. Food produced in a sustainable garden is rich in terms of both nutrients and taste!
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Cherimoya from seed
This is my "Fino de Jete" cherimoya, grown in a container since it germinated 5 years ago. Its actually a little bit stockier and wider this season - the picture is over a year old. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
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How Americans Gardened 260 Years Ago
Colonial Williamsburg shows us that when it comes to technique, not much has changed.
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12 New Bee-Supporting Plants to Plant this Year
There are new varieties of plants coming out every year that will appeal to bees. Here are 12 of the newest.
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12 companion plants to grow alongside your tomatoes
We know that carrots love tomatoes, but what other herbs, veggies and flowers make good companion or tomatoes?
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Polar Vortex to Plunge Cold into Midwestern, Eastern US in Early April
Arctic air will plunge into much of the central and eastern United States, as the polar vortex shifts its position during early April.
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The Wisdom of Rocks: Gongshi
In the West, we expect philosophy to come from books. In the East, more wisely, there’s an awareness that it may legitimately come from rocks as well... (Exc. The Book of Life, Chapter 4, Self: Virtues of Character)
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How the 1% Gardens
Somehow, airlifting a tree into place misses the point. By James E. McWilliams. (Feb. 22)
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Skirret: the forgotten Tudor vegetable
'The sweetest, whitest and most pleasant of roots,” raves gentleman gardener John Worlidge in his 1677 Systema Horticulturae, or, The Art of Gardening. “Pleasant and wholesome,” agrees Culpeper’s Complete Herbal. Yet the subtle sweetness of the modest skirret, noted by Pliny as the Emperor Tiberius’s favourite and a mainstay of Tudor tables, is all but lost today. Unfussy in most soils, resistant to disease and relishing frost, this sweet...
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Air Bonsai: Magnetic Levitation Kit Lets You Float Little Trees
Taking bonsai approaches to the next level, a Japanese company based out of Kyushu has raised over half a million dollars so far for its levitating (and rotating) tree system. The fauna in question…
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Can you germinate vegtable seeds faster? is there a way?
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Making a self produced Growth Hormone for plants?
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