Search Results for: label/native%20plants/2011/04/making-it

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Tomato Grafting Fail

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Gardening, Tomatoes
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...d to have volunteer cherry tomatoes along a wall now dominated by a massive Vitus californica vine. Next year I’m going to keep things simple, choose a drought tolerant tomato from Native Seed Search and plant it directly in the ground early in the season. How did your tomatoes do this year? What kind did you grow?...

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Bidens rebuttal

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Gardening, Least Favorite Plant
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...busy cloud of insects buzzing around this mystery plant: honeybees, little native bees and flies and these tiny orange-ish moths that I’ve never seen before. Good pollinator plants remind me of space stations (the kind in movies, that is): complex structures full of vehicles of different sizes approaching, docking, departing, filling the airspace with frantic activity all the day long.This was definitely a good pollinator plant, an important sourc...

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The Root Simple 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

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Thoughtstylings
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...mate change and drought for those of us in the arid Southwest? That’s were Native Seed/SEARCH comes in. Silva Ranger 515 Compass Let’s say you don’t want to end up wandering in the desert drinking your own urine, like two of my fellow LA hipsters ended up doing recently. You’re gonna want a compass. No, you can’t use it to rate the park on Yelp or Instagram yourself drinking your own urine. Kids, what the compass is useful for is figuring out wher...

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Tolkien and Trees

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Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Trees
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...abashed partisan of trees. A couple of quotes from him regarding trees are making the rounds on the internet, but I’ve learned to distrust popular quotations. They are often misattributed or downright made up. So I searched his edited letters for references to trees. There are many–he always mentions trees when he describes places, has funny things to say about artists who can’t draw trees, and has many trees of significance in his books, which he...

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Jas. Townsend’s 18th Century Cooking

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Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation, Recipes
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...te Townsend’s well researched videos. You can tell he’s having a good time making them too. Kelly wanted me to highlight the portable soup video I embedded above. And note that it’s just one of four videos on portable soup! There’s also a fascinating series on 18th century breads. If Townsend’s video output isn’t enough for you he’s got a website containing the recipes and videos called Savoring the Past. Does Townsend sleep? I’m glad he doesn’t b...

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