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Eat 'em, Mommy! (green soybeans, that is)
Dave's Garden &bull Yesterday
You've found the famous Dave's Garden website! Join this friendly global community that shares tips and ideas for home and gardens, along with seeds and plants! Corn, tomatoes, squash...I could almost pick my seeds in my sleep. Planting the same crops in my little veggie garden year after year is safe, predictable and boring! I garden partly to learn, so trying something new every year is a must. Edamame (edible soybeans) gave me a pleasant learning experience last year. Edamame (saying "eat 'em Mommy" will do) is not a Latin botanical term. It's the Japanese… Full Story »
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The Thrifty Gardener: Do-it-Yourself Pond, Part 1
Dave's Garden &bull Yesterday
At the end of this past summer, I set out to build my own pond. I found myself immersed in conflicting research, pricey gadgets and some very confusing directions. In the end though, I came out with a beautiful pond… Full Story »
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Events for March 11-18
Homes & Gardens - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com &bull Yesterday
PICK OF THE WEEK: A free adaptive gardening workshop is aimed at helping people with a cancer diagnosis start or continue to garden despite the effects of treatment. The workshop, sponsored by Legacy Cancer Services, teaches body mechanics and techniques… Full Story »
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Good Container Gardening Practices to PREVENT Pest Problems
Life on the Balcony &bull Yesterday
Last week my master gardener class was on "integrated pest management," as you could probably tell from the #MGtips tweets I posted to my Twitter account. Integrated pest management (IPM) is the use of all suitable pest control methods in a compatible manner that minimizes adverse effects on the environment. While IPM sometimes advocates… Full Story »
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Beginning Spring Clean-Up In The Garden
North Country Maturing Gardener &bull Yesterday
Driving home yesterday, it was apparent that the late snowstorms of the season have done a lot of damage. There are broken branches everywhere and even broken trees. Twigs and logs litter the yards and lawns of the entire town.… Full Story »
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Defra gives garden centres until 2020 to cease selling peat-based compost
Horticulture Week: Latest Garden Retail News &bull 5 Hours Ago
Defra has given the horticulture industry a reprieve by allowing garden centres until 2020 to stop carrying the 75m bags of peat-based compost they sell annually and removing growers from peat-reduction campaigns. Glendoick Gardens Garden Centre director Ken Cox said:… Full Story »
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Garden centre founder Andrew Duncan dies at age 82
Horticulture Week: Latest Garden Retail News &bull 5 Hours Ago
He was founder of Duncan's Garden Centre at Milngavie, Glasgow. He started with a retail nursery on difficult sloping site and later developed a high-class floristry business. He built what is believed to be the first customer-designed garden centre shop. Full Story »
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Greenfingers hopes for trolley fair success
Horticulture Week: Latest Garden Retail News &bull 5 Hours Ago
Starting life as a perennial and alpine plant grower, Greenfingers evolved radically over the years growing a variety of plant material from herbaceous to cut flower. Full Story »
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Perrywood Nurseries and Garden Centre revamp unveiled
Horticulture Week: Latest Garden Retail News &bull 5 Hours Ago
Wombwell said: "It's great to see an independent garden centre flourishing and expanding despite the difficult economic times we have been experiencing." Malcolm Scott planner Chris Primett said: "Perrywood and Wentworth (HW, 12 February) are good examples of well-run family… Full Story »
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Green & Blacks chocolate founder Craig Sams launches biochar Carbon Gold growing media
Horticulture Week: Latest Garden Retail News &bull 5 Hours Ago
Garden centres including Notcutts and the Tillington Group as well as Amazon and the Organic Gardening Catalogue could soon be selling new Carbon Gold complex. Carbon Gold is made from charcoal that is produced by heating woody plant matter using… Full Story »
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Europlants reports a rising demand for imported stock
Horticulture Week: Latest Garden Retail News &bull 5 Hours Ago
He explained: "Last year if I was trying to get someone to visit the nursery, it was easy for them to say no because imported stock was seen as more expensive. But if you show them a plant that looks… Full Story »
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Hilary Benn summons university chief over future of HRI Wellesbourne horticultural research station
Horticulture Week: Latest Ornamentals Production News &bull 5 Hours Ago
The news follows industry talks on 2 March, chaired by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board chief scientist Ian Crute, about the future of the site once HRI Wellesbourne is amalgamated into a new life science school. Full Story »
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- Horticulture
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Book's claim about Christopher Lloyd's private life causes a rift in gardening world
Horticulture Week: Latest Ornamentals Production News &bull 5 Hours Ago
Garrett and garden writer Anna Pavord will launch a rival book, Reflections on Christopher Lloyd at the Garden Museum on 1 April, with contributions from Lady Mary Keen and Rosemary Alexander. Full Story »
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British Association of Landscape Industries to develop a strategic vision
Horticulture Week: Latest Landscape News &bull 5 Hours Ago
Clarity over a future vision for the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) will be reached by the end of the month, according to its chairman. In addition, a networking event is being organised in the coming months with the… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Landscape
- Garden
- Landscapers
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show rules allow use of artificial grass for first time this year
Horticulture Week: Latest Landscape News &bull 5 Hours Ago
Tony Smith's Easigrass Garden, the Urban Plantaholics Kitchen Garden, will incorporate artificial turf as an architectural feature so as not to contravene show rules on the use of plant material. It is the first time we have allowed artificial plant… Full Story »
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Brown roof project by LDA Design wins biodiversity award
Horticulture Week: Latest Landscape News &bull 5 Hours Ago
In addition to creating foraging, nesting and overwintering habitats for diverse fauna, brown roofs assist with the retention of valuable 'wasteland' and endangered urban habitats and encourage the protection and regeneration of native plant species." Full Story »
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Topics:
- Urban Habitats
- Plant
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How to Clean Up Hellebores
Mr. McGregor's Daughter &bull Yesterday
The easiest way to start cutting back is with the top most stems. This is the most perilous part of the procedure for the plants. Many an experienced gardener (including yours truly) has inadvertently cut off a bud along with… Full Story »
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Garden products market set to grow by 95m
Horticulture Week: Latest Garden Retail News &bull Yesterday
The garden products market will grow by 95m in 2010, according to a new report from MTW Research, despite 'garden grabbing' loopholes and the recession. MTW says sales growth in 2009 highlighted a "healthy underlying resilience" in the market, despite… Full Story »
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Topics:
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Garden products market set to grow by 95m
Horticulture Week: Latest Ornamentals Production News &bull Yesterday
The garden products market will grow by 95m in 2010, according to a new report from MTW Research, despite 'garden grabbing' loopholes and the recession. MTW says sales growth in 2009 highlighted a "healthy underlying resilience" in the market, despite… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Garden
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Koi and filters
From the Pondlady's Pad &bull Yesterday
Time to time musings about backyard garden pond building, keeping, troubleshooting. Tips on the latest pond supplies and equipment. When Jan Goldfield took up the task of building a pond in her backyard in 1987, it was strictly as a… Full Story »


















