Nature Fest this Weekend!

...find booklets, done in collaboration with the Ecology Center, on container gardening, rainwater harvesting, bicycle basics, backyard chickens and food preservation. They’ll be priced to fly out of those boxes in my garage! I’ll also be doing a coffee demo at 1pm on both Saturday and Sunday and dispensing free advice in the booth for the entirety of the festival. Please drop by and hang out. And dig the book racks I built out of scrap plywood! See...

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Saturday Tweets: 12 Hours in an Ikea, Bike Helmets, How to Fix Drywall and Much More

...my life' https://t.co/So8lOmUUW9 pic.twitter.com/PShnFdFVYh — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 25, 2017 Man dies after bathtub phone charger shock https://t.co/CCWej4oel4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 22, 2017 “Autonomous Cars Will Turn Back the Clock on Sustainable Cities” by @PABL0VALERIO https://t.co/nHCyQ1pV4P @Andreas_Egense #dktrp — KlausBondam (@KlausBondam) March 21, 2017 Irrigation systems should be checked each spring...

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Weed Cloth Fail

One of the few, in my opinion, indisputable truisms in gardening is covered this week on Emily Green’s blog Chance of Rain. Green’s warning to the novice gardener: weed cloth always fails. There’s considerable controversy about this subject but I reached the same conclusion as Green. I’m still picking bits of plastic weed cloth out of our backyard from a ill fated decomposed granite project dating from nearly fifteen years ago. It’s time to decla...

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Saturday Tweets: We’re Back!

...lictrum thalictroides, a garden-worthy woodland non-ephmemeral wildflower https://t.co/mUyAc4QGO6 — Flatbush Gardener (@xrisfg) April 23, 2017 From Howards End to Dante's Inferno… Top 10 books about trees https://t.co/JzuGRYuSpY pic.twitter.com/tPmU2OkPQa — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) April 20, 2017 A Japanese cosplaying cat https://t.co/HXl75sCj60 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 20, 2017 The best part of this is watching Oslo lite...

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Saturday Tweets: Dumb Appliances, Chinatown Produce,

...Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2017 The Wrong Way to Teach Eco-Friendly Gardening | Garden Rant https://t.co/Rpo12wOLpI — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2017 https://t.co/SKIBofeNZS: Solar Cooking with the Solavore Oven (“Moron’s Mea… https://t.co/gIDicJqrtl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2017 I love how Metro construction downtown has created narrower bike-friendly streets and extra wide pedestrian crossings. Can we keep them? pic.twitte...

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