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SlugFest 2009! Your imput needed!
I have lived in this home for five years this November. I have never, in all my 29 years and ten months on this Earth, ever seen such a gathering of slugs in one place, over so long a time, in so many numbers. It is kind of beautiful...or gross. It might...
Tags: slugs, gardening, climate change, temperature, humidity, delmarva, weather, Deal Island, Compost, Organic gardening, Composting, Slugfest, allnews
Give your outdoor garden pots a seasonal makeover
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago
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Nothing detracts from a garden more than empty pots, or worse yet, pots filled with dead plants left over from summer displays. Spruce them up by potting them with a combination of colorful evergreen shrubs, perennials and flowering annuals. The key to...
Tags: Seattle, Environment, Organic gardening, Soil, Compost, Hospitality Recreation, Permaculture, Composting, Mulch, Waste management
Don't discard leaves - put them to use in yard
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Burning leaves was a common practice years ago, and that smell can bring up sweet, childhood memories. But burning is no longer an acceptable way to deal with leaf piles. Once your brain gets the upper hand, you start thinking about air pollution, the...
Tags: flower bed, San Francisco, Organic gardening, Compost, Shrubbery, Perennial plant, Leaf, Mulch
Gap worries as number of cows shrinks
Aleppo :: Syria | 3 days ago
Credibility Images ] is the third-largest supplier of garments, worry about is the shrinking number of cows in the country? For the company, the latest strategy of creating a social edge for its brand is natural farming, for which cow dung and cow urine are indispensable.
Tags: natural farming, Subhash Palekar, Syria, Aleppo, Environment, Organic gardening, Manure, Cow dung, Humus, Organic food, Feces, Composting, Organic farming
Paddock to plate – new market food tracker
Happy Valley :: OR :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility The aim is to highlight how and where food is grown, how it reaches the kitchen table and how waste can be reduced. Ultimately the students will develop a sustainability report for stallholders and recommend practical ways they can reduce food waste.
Tags: Happy Valley, Environment, Organic gardening, Compost, Wellington, Composting, Waste minimisation, Home composting, Food waste, Waste management
Composting plant set to open near Wilmington
Wilmington :: NC :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Volumes are expected to grow to 500 tons a day and 160,000 tons a year, company spokesman Scott Woods said -- nearly a third of the annual total sent to Cherry Island Landfill in east Wilmington. The site, along Christiana Avenue, will decompose blends...
Tags: Port of Wilmington, Wilmington Organic Recycling Center, Peninsula Compost Group LLC, Scott Woods, Peninsula Compost Co., Gore, Wilmington, Environment, Recyclable materials, Organic gardening, Compost, Landfill, Biodegradable waste, Composting, Waste management, Waste
The seeds of love: How to plant with panache
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility The truly conventional gardener is probably going to want just one present this Christmas: The Ivington Diaries by Monty Don (£25, Bloomsbury). This gorgeous tome possesses the same good looks as Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries, and relates Monty's efforts...
Tags: Monty Don, United Kingdom, London, Organic gardening, Jekka McVicar, Ivington, Hospitality Recreation, Seed, Tomatoes
Province cracks down on compost
Ontario :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Travis Woollings, left, and John Killins, of Killins Farms near London, Ont., want to market compost from Toronto's Green Bin program as fertilizer. Ontario has revamped recycling rules to ensure cities turn your Green Bin food waste and other organics...
Tags: Toronto, green bins, TORONTO STAR Ontario, Ontario Waste Management Association, Composting Council of Ontario, bins programs, plastics bags, John Gerretsen, Ontario, Environment, Organic gardening, Compost, Green bin, Biodegradation, Green waste, Composting, Diaper, Waste management
The harmony of three
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Our early European colonists would not have survived without the gift of the "Three Sisters" from the native Americans. According to Iroquois legend, corn, beans and squash are the three inseparable sisters which grow and thrive together. These crops...
Tags: sisters garden, Tulsa, Environment, Organic gardening, Squash, Agriculture in the United States, Staple foods, Bean, Native American cuisine, Three Sisters, Permaculture
A dogwood tree in need
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The leaves just yellowed and dropped, and by late August the tree had leaves only on its outermost tips...Although kousa dogwood is much more disease-resistant than most flowering dogwoods, it is still subject to some disease damage from leaf spot and...
Tags: Tulsa, Organic gardening, Cornaceae, Kousa Dogwood, Mildew, Cornus, Cornus florida, Powdery mildew, Mulch
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