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Bidens rebuttal

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Gardening, Least Favorite Plant
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...it was–so I let it be. Eventually it developed small unspectacular yellow flowers. In my mind it was a pretty-ish weed, unidentified, but fairly harmless. I kept meaning to look it up, and at the same time, I pondered pulling it because it was competing for water with my more officially invited garden plants. (Since then I’ve learned that it might give off competitive chemicals, so probably isn’t the best companion to plants I actually want to ke...

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O79 Growing and Breeding Tomatoes with Fred Hempel

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Gardening, Podcasts, Tomatoes
...rn California. His focus is on tomatoes, peppers, squash, herbs and edible flowers. In the podcast we ask if there is such a thing as a heirloom tomato? What does a tomato breeder look for in a tomato? Why do supermarket tomatoes taste so crappy? And what happens when you turn a tomato breeding project over to an eight year old. We also talk about how to water tomatoes and prepare soil. During the podcast Fred mentions: Dumont #4 tweezers And two...

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Why You Should Grow Pomegranates if You Can

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Fruit Trees, Gardening
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...might be a pomegranate. Why? Pomegranate trees have beautiful, bright red flowers in the spring and handsome yellow leaves in the fall. They grow fast. They have few pests. They are drought tolerant. They produce delicious fruit. Require low chill hours. They live long–200 years or more. The big downside for, probably, most of the readers of this blog is that pomegranates are frost sensitive. And the fruit will split if it rains in the fall. But...

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Front Yard Vegetable Gardeners Fights Back

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Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening
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...ulous grilling from a code enforcement official. It’s absurd when city codes single out “vegetables.” Broadleaf plantain is a vegetable and anyone who has a lawn is probably growing it. Many flowers such as calendula are edible. Broccoli is a flower. I could go on. Let’s just say that we wish Ricketts luck with her lawsuit against Miami Shores....

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Reforming City Codes

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Thoughtstylings
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...elped change the code in LA that made it illegal to grow and resell fruit, flowers or nuts in a residential zone. It was legal, for some reason, to grow and sell vegetables. City staff were very helpful in changing the code. They knew it didn’t make sense and were just as eager to change it as we were. As DRBREW points out, these ridiculous laws tend not to be enforced at all until a feud begins between neighbors. To prevent these situation we can...

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