Saturday Tweets: Air Plants, Nutrition and Empathy

December 13, 2014

@garden_therapy How to get your air plant to bloom http://t.co/dUBJiYaC9k via @bHomeApp pic.twitter.com/SfvVfUlwii — Garden Therapy (@Garden_Therapy) December 6, 2014 Congress again micromanages nutrition standards http://t.co/3jghJTf6Ch — Marion Nestle (@marionnestle) December 11, 2014 Time Inc. Sells Sunset Magazine’s Test Kitchens and Gardens http://t.co/V9rKgBtmnG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 11, 2014 Six Ways to Flex Your Empathy Mus...

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The Unintended Consequences of Water Conservation

Mr. Homegrown

September 9, 2015

Gardening

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...sk of fires would increase. In changing over landscapes to low-water using plants or to non-planted, non-irrigated areas, labor and material costs for plants, installing or retrofitting irrigation systems, and other materials could be significant. Converting lawns to artificial turf is also expensive. Hodel and Pittenger’s main point is that if we cut off landscape irrigation entirely, we’d only save around 4.5% of all water use in the state and t...

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How to save tomato seed

Mrs. Homegrown

September 19, 2013

Gardening, How-to, Miscellaneous, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening

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...variety you’re likely to be growing. You cannot save seed from hybridized plants. These are the type you are most likely to find in the nursery–plants bred for performance, not seed saving. This would include popular breeds like Early Girl and Better Boy and Sun Golds. If you’re not sure if your tomatoes are hybrids or not, just Google the name. The Internet is wonderful that way. The process of saving tomato seed is simple. All you have to do is...

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The Wild Yard Project

Mr. Homegrown

August 22, 2018

Garden Design, Gardening, Native Plants

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...l team of award winning filmmakers with esteemed botanists, biologists and native plant landscapers to generate media and local projects aimed at inspiring and educating people to transform their lawns back into vibrant native plant and animal habitat. One yard can save a species, but many yards can transform the world. We’ll have David on the podcast to talk more about this important project soon. In the meantime, take a look at the video, read a...

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Paper Wasps: Your New BFFs

Mrs. Homegrown

October 31, 2016

Gardening, Insects, Nature Awareness

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...America there is a native paper wasp, which is quite similar, but the non-native European variant is more the wasp you will likely be dealing with in urban/suburban North America, because unlike their native counterparts, Euro wasps aren’t shy. They are the ones who will build a nest by your back door, or on the side of your mailbox. Paper wasps build those distinctive, easy to recognize papery nests made of many cells. There are other types of n...

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