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Horticulture Jobs Available – Enter Your Location

Douglas E. Welch — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:11:15 +0000

Check out our list of horticulture jobs (and others) available via SimplyHired.com.

Enter your location for jobs close to you. You can also search on other keywords.

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Horticulture Jobs Available – Enter Your Location

Douglas E. Welch — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:17:00 +0000

Check out our list of horticulture jobs (and others) available via SimplyHired.com.

Enter your location for jobs close to you. You can also search on other keywords.

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Updated: Coming this weekend! — Tomatomania 2012 dates announced!

Douglas E. Welch — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:10:17 +0000

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Tomatomania, the annual tomato seedling extravaganza has just announced it’s dates for 2012. It looks like they have added a few new locations, too.

Each Tomatomania has hundreds of different varieties of tomatoes ready to take home to your own garden and kick start your Summer growing.

Here is a video I shot last year with Tomatomania founder, Scott Daigre.

Download “Tomatomania 2011: Scenes and Interview” – iPod Ready format

My local Tomatomania, at Tapia Bros. Farm in Encino, CA will be held on March 23-25, 2012.

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New Sunset Western Garden Book available

Douglas E. Welch — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:38:37 +0000

I have written about the Sunset Western Garden Book in the past and always consider it my go-to guide for gardening info. The great news is that there is now a new edition of the book available. My own copy is a bit old now, probably from around 1996, so it might just be time to upgrade. Of course, the danger is I will go “down the rabbit hole” and spend more time reading about gardening than doing it. (LAUGH)

You can find further information on this new edition by visiting the Sunset Western Garden Book Press Room.

Via Garden Rant

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Recall: ECHO Recalls Backpack Blowers Due to Fire Hazard

Douglas E. Welch — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:47:45 +0000

I don’t often see a lot of recalls, but this one caught my eye on Google+ a little while ago.

ECHO Recalls Backpack Blowers Due to Fire Hazard

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of Product: Gas Powered Backpack Blower

Units: About 16,000

Manufacturer: ECHO Inc., of Lake Zurich, Ill.

Hazard: The fuel line between the fuel tank and carburetor could have been damaged during assembly leading to fuel leakage, posing a fire hazard.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported

Read entire recall notice

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A Gardener’s Notebook Facebook page reaches 100 “Likes”

Douglas E. Welch — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:27:42 +0000

Today, Becka was the 100th person to “like” our page on Facebook. I maintain that page for those people whom use Facebook more than any other service. The more readers, the merrier, no matter where they might be. It is also another space for use to share pictures and talk gardening.

If you know someone is a Facebook homebody, share the AGN page with them. I would love to see them there.

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NEWS: Bonsai stamps released in the US

Douglas E. Welch — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:23:22 +0000

Despite the problems facing the US Post Office, it is nice to see them still producing some pretty nice stamps. Here are some of the most recent examples, dedicated to bonsai. Click through to the article for larger images.

Bonsai

With these five stamps, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates the beauty of bonsai. The word “bonsai” (Japanese for “plant in a pot”) refers to the art of cultivating plants — usually trees — in trays, pots, or other containers. Favorite bonsai plants include evergreens, maples, and azaleas, but many other trees and shrubs are also suitable.

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News: UCLA’s plans to sell Japenese garden stirs un-Zen-like uproar

Douglas E. Welch — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:59:36 +0000

I would hope that some arrangement could be developed, but the property is worth so much money that it is difficult to see how it can be maintained in its current state. A great loss after so many years brought on by the governmental stalemate but state wide and nationally.

UCLA’s plans to sell Japenese garden stirs un-Zen-like uproar

The decision by UCLA to sell the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel-Air stirs anger by garden conservancy groups and Carter’s family, although the sell could net $15 million for the university.

Read the entire article

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Question: What are your garden planting plans this season?

All About Douglas – Choosing what you want to see and hear

Douglas E. Welch — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:00:00 +0000

I have a lot of interests, as most of you already know. Therefore, I have a lot of different blogs, events, and groups in my portfolio of online engagements. I also try to make myself available wherever people want to converse. This means that each of my interests usually has multiple presences on the Internet.

Here is a list of almost all of the ways you can talk with me and learn about what is happening in my life and work. You don’t need to, nor should you, try to subscribe to all of them. That would only lead to you seeing multiple copies of the same information. Rather, pick and choose whatever ways you would like to consume my “content.”

If you are a heavy Facbeook user, you might want to join my pages there. Is Google+ catching your fancy? I have a home over there, too. Maybe email is your thing? No problem, almost all of my content can be emailed directly to your Inbox. My goal is to make my content available in whatever way makes the most sense to you. It also means you can contact me and converse with me on your favorite online services.

This list is also broken down by interest. If you want to see everything I post and share, the first section is where you can find it. This will contain information from all my areas of interest including events, careers, gardening, technology and my organizations. Maybe, though, you are only interested in my gardening information. You can narrow your reading to my gardening blog or Facebook page. The same applies for careers, technology and my organizations. Select whatever is most interesting, and valuable, to you.

Thank you for supporting me, my blogs and podcasts and my organization of the years! I look forward to talking with you — and sharing more with you — in 2012.

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Elsewhere: Video: TedTalks: A Garden in My Apartment

Douglas E. Welch — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:51:00 +0000

A great talk on a system to building a garden anywhere you have available space and light. Does it give you some thought? It sure does that for me. Check it out! and let me know what you think in the comments.

Could you use this in your house or apartment?

Would you try it out?

How could you make it better?

What would you grow using a system like this?

Watch “Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment” on YouTube

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