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Extend Your Growing Season: In Praise of Floating Row Cover 20 HOURS AGO IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Floating row cover is one of the cheapest, easiest ways to extend your growing season. And that means more homegrown lettuce. + READ MORE	{ }
Organic Gardening 101: 5 Tips for Avoiding Seed Catalog Overspend 19 Nov 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Seed catalogs are a sore temptation to every gardener. But unless you're careful, you can end up with a large bill, and a whole bunch of seeds that will never make it into the ground. Here's how to avoid seed catalog overspend. + READ MORE	{ }
Avert a Food Crisis: 5 Tips for Saving Phosphorus in the Garden 18 Nov 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Phosphorus is a prescious resource that is increasingly scarse supply. That could mean serious trouble for our global food system. But there are things we can do to keep the phosphorus cycling in our soils.+ READ MORE	{ }
5 Must-Have Books for Urban Gardeners 18 Nov 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Here are five great books for the urban gardener in your life. + READ MORE	{ }
Tired of Mowing? Make a Meadow and Start Now! 11 Nov 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS If you have always wanted a country house surrounded by fragrant meadows here's how. + READ MORE	{ }
Permaculture Principles: Diversity 29 Oct 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Diversity breeds resilience. Cultivate it wherever you can-but too much of a good thing can get you in trouble too. + READ MORE	{ }
Build a Better Garden... With Fish Poop? 22 Oct 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS What do you get when you combine your container garden, your fish tank, and your water fountain all into one? Answer: a perfect solution for a self-contained food growing system. Farm In A Box thinks so, anyway.+ READ MORE	{ }
Edible Landscape Showcase: Missouri's Heartland Harvest Garden 15 Oct 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS In a country dominated by ornamental landscapes that are beautiful but (almost) useless, it's refreshing to see an edible landscape demonstration on the scale of the Heartland Harvest Garden - it's 12 acres of incredible edibles, with hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables, creating a...+ READ MORE	{ }
Cardboard Makes Awesome Mulch! 7 Oct 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS A cardboard mulch feeds the soil, prevents weeds and retains moisture. But is it better than recycling? + READ MORE	{ }
Organic Gardeners! Make Money, Discover New Heirloom Plants with DoLeaf 6 Oct 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS If you're looking for heirloom or hard-to-find plants, a new website has just the tool to make your search easy. + READ MORE	{ }
Frustrated Homesteaders: How to Outsmart a Pesky Homeowner's Association 4 Oct 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Homeowner's Associations can seriously cramp your homesteading style. Be careful to ask questions before you move into an area with a HOA. + READ MORE	{ }
Permaculture Principles: Recycling Nutrients 1 Oct 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Waste equals food - that's one of the fundamental principles of nature. Whatever is discarded by one organism or process get's used by another. Permaculture seeks to design gardens that recycle nutrients within their system for as long as possible. Here's how to do it. + READ MORE	{ }
Permaculture Principles: Plant Succession 24 Sep 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Permaculture may derive from "permanent agriculture", but it is anything but static. A good permaculture design, like an ecosystem, evolves over time. .+ READ MORE	{ }
Scythes: Not Just for Halloween Anymore 23 Sep 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS A scythe can do everything a weed-whacker can do without the noise, pollution, and maintenance. They are easy to use, will give you a good workout and double as a great accessory on Halloween.+ READ MORE	{ }
Permaculture Principles: Energy Efficiency 10 Sep 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS Like many green philosophies, permaculture preaches energy efficiency. But permaculturists try to think a little beyond efficient light bulbs and insulation - it's also about saving ourselves some work too...+ READ MORE	{ }

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