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Trench composting saves the day As fellow composter Simon Sherlock pointed out in the comments to my previous post, it will be some time before my new worm composter can take all my kitchen waste. Add too much in the early stages and the worms won't be able to eat it before some of the stuff putrefies, making the worms unhappy, and possibly dead. I forgot to say earlier that my solution to the excess kitchen waste problem, now that my allotment site has banned it from compost heaps, is trench composting. I am assuming the powers that be won't object because in trench composting,...
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The Lavender Fields - Photos
Animalbytes with Keri Dearborn
Squarefoot Gardening with Andy Helsby
A Gardener's Notebook Pictures on Flickr
A Gardener's Notebook Photo Sharing Group on Flickr
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Tech Nation with Moira Gunn - Click to listenTechnorati Tags: garden, gardening, hobby, outdoors, insects, science, audio, itconversations, butterfly, book, books
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Kim Todd, who in her book "Chrysalis" recounts the tale of Maria Sibylla Merian and her documentation of the secrets of metamorphosis.
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DIY newspaper seedling pots
Outside it may be Nor'eastering, but inside it's time to get your seedlings started for summer planting. Eric from Japan details how to recycle your newspaper into biodegradable seed-starting pots. (Continues)
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Removing Friction
Today's 10 Minutes in the Garden
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How to Make a Garden Feel Welcoming by Gordon Hayward
Use furnishings to create familiarity, invite lingering, and give a sense of coherence
Objects and structures can make a garden feel inviting and personal. A weathered birdbath (B on Site plan) passed on from the author's grandmother enhances a hosta bed.
Every time I walk past the 75-year-old birdbath in our garden here in southern Vermont, I recall when I first saw that cast-stone ornament as a boy in my late grandmother's garden near Oyster Bay, Long Island. It sat in the center of a boxwood-edged rose garden that was crisscrossed with crushed-oyster-shell paths. While visitors to our garden don't know what associations I hold with that birdbath, they can tell that it's old, that it anchors the broad curve of a hosta bed, and that birds do surely visit it. Objects such as this, rife with history and meaning, make our garden feel personal, anchored, and peaceful.
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Essential monthly gardening tasksTechnorati Tags: garden, gardening, hobby, outdoors
The Garden Helper has a practical monthly schedule of gardening tasks, green thumb or otherwise.
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Koreatown Sidewalk Garden
Annika Barranti:
Today while I was out walking with the baby I came upon this unexpected garden at Kingsley and 5th. Three more photos behind the cut.
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Reviewing Flower ConfidentialTechnorati Tags: garden, gardening, hobby, grow, make, books
...READ IT - IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU THINK...
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