Weekend Plantings: ‘Sweet Acacia Tree’
Published: Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:49 p.m. last Modified: Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:49 p.m. Maybe it’s the thorns. I can’t think of any other reason the sweet acacia tree (Acacia farnesiana) isn’t a standard item at local nurseries. This airy, multi-stemmed, nearly ever-blooming and fast-growing Florida native is cold hardy, evergreen, pest-resistant [...]
Garden Doctors: All about growing biennials, blueberries
A “biennial” is even more confusing than the term “perennial.” the first year, if you start from seeds, a biennial will ut out its leaves. It will keep growing leaves until the end of the growing season. Depending on whether or not the plant is evergreen or deciduous, the leaves may or may not die [...]
Hermosa Beach officials push for community garden
A year after the first seeds were planted for a public gardening space in Hermosa Beach, the project continues to grow. And the movement to create a permanent site for the beach town’s community gardens could receive a push forward Tuesday when the Hermosa Beach City Council considers allocating space for the project in South [...]
Kathryn McKenzie: Sleuth out the good topsoil suppliers
Today’s topic is topsoil, and although that may sound dull to some of you, it’s actually something that’s essential to the good health of your garden. our question concerns a reader who bought what he thought was “topsoil” for his garden, but unfortunately discovered it was not at all what he expected. Jason Wachs, Carmel [...]
The Inquirer Online : 1st Multi Stakeholders Forum On Urban Agriculture Opens
The first Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture has kicked off in Monrovia with a call for serious awareness and action towards the reconstruction of quality roads and rehabilitation of all systems to ensure cleanliness and adequate food security in Liberia. Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Richelieu Mitchell said the burden of feeding the nation rests [...]
Greenmeadow Community Farm could turn green (From South Wales Argus)
Greenmeadow Community Farm could turn green 11:30am Saturday 25th June 2011 Print Email Share PLANS are under way to make an eco-friendly learning centre Greenmeadow Community Farm, Cwmbran. The farm, which attracts around 50,000 visitors a year, could use the centre to teach them about the benefits of sustainable living and how to do their [...]
Home Composting
Your kitchen is a good source of materials for composting. Moldy bread, left over dinner, vegetable and fruit peelings, and other leftover items in the kitchen contains nutrients that can help your garden plants grow. To turn your kitchen waste into garden soil, you need a reliable composting bin and a guide for mixing compost. [...]
Advantages of Using a Compost Accelerator
Gardeners who recycle garden waste and kitchen scraps like good quality free compost. but, occasionally it can appear to take a while for that garden compost to be created. perhaps then its time for the addition of a compost accelerator. Whether or not you require to add a compost accelerator to your compost bins really [...]
Magazine: Are You Ready To Tea-Off?
By David Ward in General Sports on 11th Apr 2011 6:00 This article appeared in Pitchcare MagazineIssue 35 – February / March 2011 Compost Tea is not a form of fertiliser, it is all about extracting the great diversity of life contained in healthy soil by ‘brewing’ specially prepared compost in an aerated solution of [...]
Metabolix Garners Museum of Science, Boston Invented Here! Award
Press Release Source: Metabolix, Inc. On Wednesday February 23, 2011, 8:00 am EST CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLX – News) today announced that Metabolix Founder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Oliver Peoples received the prestigious Invented Here! Award, on behalf of the Company from the Museum of Science, Boston for his invention of Mirel™, [...]