Weekend Tweets: Poppies, Insane Comics and Black Metal Cats

April 30, 2016

...ock on N African coasts (+ Canaries). Relative of rock samphire. Love this plant! pic.twitter.com/q9RpE2ltXA — Chris Thorogood (@thorogoodchris1) April 24, 2016 Insane Comic Books Warn Phoenix Children That Biking Will Kill Them https://t.co/77XRpb1wLT via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 25, 2016 What happens when you only use paint to create #bicycle #infrastructure? #Seattle pic.twitter.com/Prv8rJLSAv — Erik Griswold (@erik_gri...

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O79 Growing and Breeding Tomatoes with Fred Hempel

Mr. Homegrown

March 23, 2016

Gardening, Podcasts, Tomatoes

Want to know how to grow tomatoes? What are the best varieties to plant? Want to learn how to breed your own? Our guest this week is farmer and tomato breeder Fred Hempel. Fred farms and breeds gourmet vegetables in Northern 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 tomatoe...

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Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer and Avocados

Mr. Homegrown

October 12, 2016

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests

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...oles on avocado trunk. Photo credit: Eskalen Lab, UC Riverside. Of all the plants in our yard the one I care most about is our avocado tree. I’d be despondent if anything happened to it. Which is why I panicked when I first heard about the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), a beetle that spreads a fungus Fusarium euwallacea. First noticed in 2003 here in Southern California, the PSHB seems to damage some trees more than others. Concerned about lo...

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Pl@ntNet: “Shazam” for Plants

Mr. Homegrown

March 1, 2016

Gardening

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...um, which the app immediately identified despite my bad photo. It also correctly identified daffodils and got close to identifying Malva parviflora. It was not able to identify any of the California natives I tried, but I don’t think the program has a database of these plants yet. Pl@ntNet is the work of four French research organizations who have a vision for a kind of expansive botanical citizen-science project. I can definitely see the potentia...

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Soil Positive or just Soil Curious? Join Nancy Klehm For a Workshop on Soils

Mrs. Homegrown

January 11, 2016

Events

...trates her commitment to redefining the way human populations coexist with plant and animal systems on this planet. Nancy has worked on projects for the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Chicago Park District, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Annenberg Foundation, Heifer Project International, The Center of Land Interpretation in Los Angeles, The Edible Schoolyard (Berkeley), LearningSite (Copenhagen), GiveLove Haiti (P...

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