Make your own “vertical veggie garden” with some gutter material and an exterior wall you’re not doing anything with anyway! The Hack: Use a wall and some gutter material to make a vertical garden where no garden has dared to…
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Category: Tangents
Tomato-tainers – Growing a Portable Garden
Moving soon? Need to conserve space? Need (or want) to conserve water? How about saving loads of money by making your own container garden and forgoing the shipping and handling charges for the ones advertised in the sunday magazines? Here’s…
Got Fruit?
There are fruits, and then there are fruits. Some you’ll never be able to pick, and will be littering your lawn, others are on public land and will be dropping on cars. In either event, it would be a waste…
Returns from the Day – Turning Tillage into Tomato Sauce
Returning from the farmer’s market with unsold goods means a monster salad to be eaten that night, or locally grown compost material that has a hidden value: “…As the farmers tracked the economics of their efforts, one found that his tomatoes, sweet…
More Factory Farms – are Free-Range Veggies a Thing of the Past?
There are some pets that cannot survive in the wild, or – are there? Okay, maybe the silkworm but… how’d I get on that tangent? Indoor farming: is it a threat or a salvation? Hard to have erosion in a…
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An Heirloom Seed Library Thats a Work of Art, Literally : TreeHugger
I was surprised and delighted to see seeds from the Hudson Valley – the “unknown” part of New York between the Catskills and the City. “…Based in upstate New York, the Hudson Valley Seed Library offers…
Tagged with: Seeds
FutureCrop – We Want Free-Range Tomatoes!
Sorry, looking over the “fields” in this photo may actually be our future, if we’re not more careful with the water we use. It’s actually a good article. Greener greenhouses – Houweling Nurseries hothouse – Los Angeles Times.
What Jumps In Peoria Today Is In The Human Food Chain Tomorrow : TreeHugger
More from the lemons to lemonade department: silver carp, the bane of many a waterskiier and high speed boater (google “high speed fish slap”), are being “harvested” and used for cattlefeed and fish oil. Hmm, don’t remember…
Get Free Seeds for Your Garden
for the price of a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope, you can get free seeds. Via TipHero: Get Free Seeds for Your Garden.
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2002 – The Year of the Spinach
Dated 2002, this link is chock full of information on Popeye’s favorite greens: “… The number one reason for growing spinach in containers is so you actually get the harvest. Rabbits and other four-footed creatures like spinach but they cannot…
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