Don't drown your garden The Examiner | Too many gardeners have no idea how to water their garden effectively and save water. Most gardeners take the lead from nature and water at least 30 minutes several times a week when nature doesn’t provide. Then leaves on plants turn yellow and the unaware gardener scratches their head trying to...
Organize and prepare your garden for fall The Examiner | Some of the things you need to do to get your garden organized for fall: | Weed Deadhead faded blooms Divide overgrown plants Dig up non-hardy bulbs for winter storage Remove spent annuals Mulch - It should typically be applied from 2 to 4 inches deep, allows oxygen to enter the soil and carbon di...
Garden goings on The News & Observer | Events | Annual Daylily Club Plant Sale | The Raleigh Hemerocallis (Daylily) Club annual plant sale will have hundreds of daylily plants and dozens of colors to choose from. 9 a.m. Sept. 11. Free. State Farmers Market, 1201 Agriculture St., Raleigh...
Master gardeners talk about tools that have a grip on them Lexington Herald-Leader | Abe Fosson, left, with his swoe, and Susan Umberger with her bayonet knife (that she uses to separate orchids, shown) on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 in the Herald-Leader studio. This story is mostly a photo essay about master gardeners and their favori...
Small North Side garden is a 21-year labor of love -- and it's not done Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | The sound of gurgling water surrounds you in this North Side garden. Each twist of the homemade stone paths was a pleasant surprise -- an unusual perennial, a small ornamental tree, a pleasing combination of annuals and perennials. And then, a late...
Home/Garden Notes: Gardening series focuses on native plants, pollinators Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Penn State Master Gardeners of Allegheny County will present a fall Backyard Gardening Lecture Series from 9 a.m. to noon next Saturday at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve on Dor-seyville Road in Fox Chapel. | This fall's event will focus on native p...
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Gardening 101: Five cheap homemade fertilizers for the garden The Examiner | Can't afford commercial garden fertilizers? Rather not douse plants with unknown chemicals? Plants need a pick me up? Here's several homemade fertilizers you can rely on to feed ...
John and Patty Fitzurka's vegetable garden earns special award Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | For at least 50 years, someone in Patty Fitzurka's family has grown fruit and vegetables behind this house in Robinson. | Her father and uncle worked a bigger garden than the one...
September: Vegetable gardening in north Texas The Examiner | The month of September is a transition period for the edible garden. Warm weather crops continue to produce, as cool weather crops make a start. The season of fall brings a new v...
What to do with garden waste The Examiner | It’s common knowledge or should I say experience that the growing season is about a full month ahead of schedule in Madison this year. That means that many garden crops are done growing. What should you do with those left over potato plants, toma...
Don't drown your garden The Examiner | Too many gardeners have no idea how to water their garden effectively and save water. Most gardeners take the lead from nature and water at least 30 minutes several times a week when nature doesn’t provide. Then leaves on plants turn yellow and t...
Pink flamingoes deserve their place in the garden KDVR America has had a love affair with plastic pink flamingoes ever since their debut in the late 1950's. Don Featherstone is credited with their creation and proud collectors will show you his signature on their authentic birds. This love fest however h...
University of Arizona-led group awarded $9.9 million to develop 'super rice' PhysOrg --> | "We need to figure out a way to come up with a rice variety that can grow on less land, on poorer soil and with less water and fertilizer," said Rod Wing, a University of Arizona plant science professor. Credit: Norma Jean Gargasz / UANews | A University of Arizona-led consortium has been awarded $9.9 million from the National Science Foundat...
Magellan Petroleum Corporation Earnings Summary and Strategic Discussion redOrbit | PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Magellan Petroleum Corporation (Nasdaq: MPET) (ASX: MGN) (the "Company") reported a consolidated net loss of $1.5 million or $0.03 per share on gross revenues of $28.5 million for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2010, as compared to net income of $665,000 or $0.02 per share, on revenues of $28.2 m...
