Saturday Tweets: Christmas Eve Edition

December 24, 2016

...QuVo — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) December 20, 2016 Is your #Christmas cactus an impostor? Probably! Find out what it really is! #garden #houseplant #holiday https://t.co/qogcJNggqm pic.twitter.com/4qsmEgfBsZ — John Porter (@WVgardenguru) December 19, 2016 It's time to plant your winter vegetable garden (and gloat on Facebook) https://t.co/fOOnYZXiNl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 19, 2016 Life In Nara Through Japan’s 72 Microsea...

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Saturday Tweets: Subterranean Heating Systems, Achocha, Tree Beekeeping and Valentine’s Day Cocktails

Mr. Homegrown

February 11, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...y 11, 2017 Living Home Podcast 86: Redeem Your Ground – https://t.co/PqUrYU5Pgh via @Shareaholic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 Raspberry Frappe, 1970 –Vintage Cocktail Friday https://t.co/jeodIFxf47 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 6 Flowers to Grow in the Vegetable Garden https://t.co/wcRz7RcI4g — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 A Coffee Renaissance Is Brewing, and It’s All Thanks to Genetics https://t.co/...

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Stop Digging! The Benefits of No-Till and Cover Crops

Mr. Homegrown

June 7, 2019

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

4 Comments

...mercial agriculture I think it’s safe to extrapolate their results to home vegetable gardens. The latest issue of California Agriculture sums up the study, Symbiotrophic fungi expand the surface area of roots, allowing roots greater access to water and nutrients (in exchange for carbon). Fungi, however, are more sensitive than other microorganisms to physical disturbance. Adopting no-till as a conservation management practice eliminates or greatly...

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Saturday Tweets: Tweeterdämmerung

Mr. Homegrown

June 29, 2019

Saturday Linkages

S3E17 of The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener radio show is here to download Host Joey & Holly talk about How to keep tomatoes healthy all season long, The value of Bees guest Erik Knute of @rootsimple https://t.co/ZyjCrFNMZ6 pic.twitter.com/w2nKthe0Bm — TheWIVegGardener (@TheWIVegGardenr) June 24, 2019 Why did most major car makers install fake pollution controls on millions of cars? Answer: competition among capitalists to profit from car productio...

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My Favorite Lettuce Mix

Mr. Homegrown

January 18, 2013

Gardening, Seeds, Vegetable Gardening

7 Comments

Earlier this week when I decried the sorry state of our winter vegetable garden, I neglected to mention the one big success: lettuce. We grow lettuce mixes almost every year and we’ve never been disappointed. Homegrown salad greens are much better than store bought. Plus, at least where we live, they are easy to grow. We just sow the seed directly and water them in. We thin by eating the seedlings. Judging from the crowding in the photo above, we...

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