Organic gardening: Mulch (Daily Telegraph)
And so to bed, under a thick blanket of organic mulch. By Tom Petherick....more...Pet project (Herald Democrat)
I?ve begun work on a new pet project. Fearing my incessantly aging body is losing the annual war against bermudagrass and thistles, I have been searching for a way to garden easier, more intensively, and without too much bending and kneeling....more... Prepping a garden for winter need not be a chore (Detroit News)
There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to putting the garden to bed for the winter....more... Garden advice: Thorny problems (Daily Telegraph)
Garden tips and advice from our resident expert Helen Yemm. This week: dicentras, worm casts and a potted climber....more... Gardener?s Gold (Berkeley Daily Planet)
Every now and then I see a teenager in one of my trees. From a window I thought at first it might be a small UC student locationally adrift, in a striped shirt. A closer look showed it to be a young Cooper?s hawk, glaring down at me in comparably dauntless fashion....more... Plotting a new vegetable patch (Daily Telegraph)
Bunny Guinness answers questions on the best way to plan a new vegetable garden....more... DIG INTO ECO-FRIENDLY GARDENING (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Dig this: On Nov. 3 in Algiers, just steps away from the Algiers Ferry landing, The New Orleans Food and Farm Network is having a day-long workshop on basic skills for growing your own food....more... Lightening your Carbon Footprint?.in the Garden (MyMotherLode.com)
It was a cold and stormy night. The large house was warm and cozy, central heat set at 76 degrees, three computers and two televisions turned on, the warm glow of incandescent lights shining from all windows. No one was home....more... ARAMARK Delivers Sustainable Practices on Campuses (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PHILADELPHIA----In honor of Campus Sustainability Day, October 24, 2007, ARAMARK Higher Education, a world leader in providing professional services to more than 600 colleges and universities in North America, is supporting new programs and initiatives focused on ecology, conservation and environmental stewardship to teach students the value of protecting the earth....more... |