Saturday Tweets: Root Simple’s Miscellanies

August 26, 2017

...cutting some grooves. My friends at @rootsimple might enjoy. #jig #router #making pic.twitter.com/bHqtYRjx2l — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) August 23, 2017 An Experimental Trickle Down Solar Water Heating System: https://t.co/MipsQ2Buj7 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 26, 2017 Saying goodbye to a garden: https://t.co/UhQ74Mgeqt — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 26, 2017 America's Sorriest Bus Stop: Pittsburgh vs. Medford https://t.co/...

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The Theme of a Great Garden

Mr. Homegrown

March 21, 2014

Garden Design, Gardening

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...den it would be useful to toss around a few abstract words and ideas to help unify the design vocabulary of the garden. Picking a theme or several related themes could make it easier when it comes to making plant and hardscpaping choices. Of course, the current theme of our garden is “Skunk Encounters.” We’re going to have a bunch of stinky school groups this spring . . ....

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Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...t So Much? https://t.co/DVO4novEGO — Benjamin Vogt (@BRVogt) July 18, 2019 Plant Parenthood https://t.co/01XQzgUiW1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 18, 2019 “It is in our hands to make of our world a better one for all.” – Nelson Mandela Today let us honor #MandelaDay as he taught us that we have the power to make that change. — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) July 18, 2019 When Trump says, If you don’t like, it leave it,” people I know say it reminds t...

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Land Girls

Mrs. Homegrown

December 2, 2009

Thoughtstylings

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...y Wellingtons. The fellows at The Chap also make some savvy suggestions for planting, captioning this photo, “Come along Tiffany, these tobacco plants, juniper berries and truffles won’t plant themselves!”...

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Farm in a Box

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2009

Aquaculture, Preparedness

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...a combined fish tank/planter box. Waste from the fish circulates into the planter box via a pump to provide fertilizer for the plants as well as removing nitrogen and ammonia from the water. From the Earth Solutions website: “By integrating fish with vegetables, naturally balanced aquatic ecosystems are established making it unnecessary to add fertilizer, chemicals or remove nitrogen rich water. As in nature, plants, fish and oxygen loving bacter...

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