Summer Drought

Potomac Overlook Park Garden From looking at the clouds the other evening, you wouldn’t think there was a drought here in Northern Virginia, but there is. In the micro climate of the Potomac Overlook Park at...

Pears do not belong here

After visiting the Native American herb garden today where I pained a pear tree and observed that pears begin by growing bottom up, my wife said, “I don’t think pears belong in that garden.” Well, she was...

The Garden Path

That’s what I want to become my beat, the garden path. I went out to paint this morning before the temperature reached over 90 degrees. I carried my backpack, camp chair, water, and camera. I wanted to paint...

Japan Bridge

The bridge from Chinese Garden to Japanese GardenSource: Image of the Day (http://www.schahryar.com/photoblog/316)

Tree Graffiti

Is tree graffiti damaging the nature? Source: Image of the day

900 000 People on Champs Elysees for First Day of Nature Capitale

It was a crowded garden on a warm day.That's the comment I heard from those who joined the throngs who flocked to the Champs-Elysees on May 23, the first day of Nature Capitale.900,000 people showed up....

Dream Day, Champs Elysees is A Garden, Audrey's Photos Priceless

Since I am following the event from this side of the Atlantic, I went scouting various French language sites. I was lucky to find D Day – La NATURE débarque en CAPITALE by Audrey on Mince Alors! (Sunday, May 23), a photo journal of the first day of this dream garden. From...

Controlling Whiteflies

Are you engulfed by a white cloud of flying bugs every time you touch, or walk by a certain plant in your yard?  Are you discouraged from trying to control these bugs because nothing seems to...

Gardening Watermelon

Drought conditions on agriculture related. In Karawang, West Java Province, Indonesia, some farmers use the dry season for gardening palawijaya and fruits, the rice is still difficult to grow because it has not entered the rainy season. Bojongsari Kec.Tirtamulya in the...

Tesco gets into DIY food

This is really smart marketing. "Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer, is embracing the recession-inspired trend to "grow your own" produce by offering allotment spaces to rent in the U.K and selling live...

Sustainable Jersey Awards $200k in Grants to 14 Municipalities

This is the complete Sustainable Jersey press conference held June 22, 2009 in Trenton, NJ to announce the awarding of $200,000 in Green Grants funded by Walmart Stores, to 14 NJ municipalities. Four towns...

Playground weed killer suffocates human cells

Scientists say the are "astonished" by new information showing human cell-death  from ''inert" properties in the top-selling weed killer in the U.S., and call for...

Obama's Food Police HR 875

THE OBAMA FOOD POLICE...H.R.875 NEW BILL BEING PASSED!!!IS THIS THE CHANGE YOU THOUGHT HE PROMISED?THERE ARE MANY LAWS BEING PASSED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN THE WHITE HOUSE! ONE OF THE MOST HEINOUS IS CALLED H.R.875 PLEASE GOOGLE THIS AND LEARN FOR YOURSELF. IT IS A BILL THAT...

How to build a garden Wicking Bed for your veggies

"The wicking worm bed is a highly productive growing system which not only produces more food from limited water, but also recycles waste organic material to provide plant nutrient and capture carbon. The essence is to form an underground reservoir of water or pond...

Gardening an extreme sport? Be body aware as you dig

While gardening may not be an extreme sport, as the sun warms the earth and coaxes the season's first flowers, horticulturists of all ages need to be body aware. Get those muscles ready by warming up first - maybe...

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