Book worth a look: What's Wrong With My Vegetable Garden?: 100% Organic Solutions for All Your Vegetables
What’s Wrong With My Vegetable Garden? It’s a question we’ve all asked in one way or another. It’s also the title of a helpful new 250-page book written by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth. It’s important to be upbeat and positive about gardens and their benefits, but we also need to teach people how to handle the negatives. What I found most useful about this book was the second half which is all about troubleshooting with photos and texts for just about every garden pest and problem you can imagine and several you can’t. Well worth a look!
Magical.
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Media Hit: Albany Times Union
A super commentary by subversive plotting friend and colleague, Jennifer Wilkins.
kitchengardeners:
It’s that time of year again, time for taking stock of the past and looking forward to the future. What would you like to do better or differently in your kitchen garden life in the coming year? A resolution made is good, but a resolution shared is even better!
I’ve got several garden resolutions for 2012, but here are the first two I’ll be acting on already this winter:
1) Invest in a better indoor seed-starting set up so that I don’t have to buy any seedlings or starts.
2) Start the year with a plan for what crops will go where and when.
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Happy Holidays from my family to yours. May your sweetest garden wishes come true this coming year!
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Here’s the latest dispatch from the “Oh, no, here we go again” desk about what appears to be a responsible global citizen getting in trouble with local law officials for doing right by the planet. This case concerns a Canadian gardener named Frank Teuton who has been cited 4 times for violating town code standards for cleanliness, weed control and garbage. According to the article below, he received his latest citation for, among other things, a “rusty shovel.” Frank’s next court date is June 11th. We’ll be watching this case between now and then to see how we can bring our collective influence to bear. For now, please share this to raise awareness and protect the right to garden and compost.
Source: montrealgazette.com
Media Hit: AnnArbor.com
How subversive is your garden?
kitchengardeners:
We kitchen gardeners owe a debt of gratitude to bees for pollinating our crops and, although they might not know it, bees owe a debt of gratitude to my friend, Christy Hemenway, for being one of their most passionate, two-legged advocates. Check out her TEDx talk here to understand how interconnected and interdependent we all are. Buzz. Buzz.
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Just 6 Walmart heirs have as much wealth as 30% of Americans.
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