http://planetgreen.discovery.com RSS Feed for a Tag http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/grow-plants-milk-jugs.html If you want to grow your own plants from seed, but lack the space and equipment indoors to do so, try this easy method. If you want to grow your own plants from seed, but lack the space and equipment indoors to do so, try this easy method. Gardening Organic Gardening Tips Reuse Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:55:00 GMT Colleen Vanderlinden http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/grow-plants-milk-jugs.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/tips-avoiding-catalog-overspend.html 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. 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. Gardening Green Your Yard Organic Gardening Tips Permaculture Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:30:00 GMT Sami Grover http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/tips-avoiding-catalog-overspend.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/food-crisis-phosphorus-garden.html 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. 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. Gardening Green Your Yard Organic Gardening Tips Permaculture Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:31:00 GMT Sami Grover http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/food-crisis-phosphorus-garden.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/books-urban-gardeners.html Here are five great books for the urban gardener in your life. Here are five great books for the urban gardener in your life. Gardening Green Your Yard Organic Gardening Tips Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:30:00 GMT Colleen Vanderlinden http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/books-urban-gardeners.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/family-feud-sibling-plants.html When you dump a packet of seeds into a pot of soil, you probably don't think who their parents where, but recent research suggests that you probably should. A study conducted at McMaster University found that individual plants of the same species actually change their growth patterns depending on whether they are sharing a pot with a member of their kin group or one with which they are not related. When you dump a packet of seeds into a pot of soil, you probably don't think who their parents where, but recent research suggests that you probably should. A study conducted at McMaster University found that individual plants of the same species actually change their growth patterns depending on whether they are sharing a pot with a member of their kin group or one with which they are not related. Gardening Sharing Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:19:00 GMT David DeFranza http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/family-feud-sibling-plants.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/tired-mowing-create-meadow.html If you have always wanted a country house surrounded by fragrant meadows here's how. If you have always wanted a country house surrounded by fragrant meadows here's how. Gardening Green Your Yard Lawn Care Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:30:00 GMT Marye Audet http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/tired-mowing-create-meadow.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/human-waste-compost-chicago.html Poop. Everybody does it. That adds up to a lot of waste - waste that could potentially build soil and fertilize gardens. But most of us don't want to think about it. We just want to flush it and forget it. Poop. Everybody does it. That adds up to a lot of waste - waste that could potentially build soil and fertilize gardens. But most of us don't want to think about it. We just want to flush it and forget it. Chicago Composting Gardening Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT Derek Markham http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/human-waste-compost-chicago.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/growing-herbs-home.html Here are the steps I outlined in this episode. Growing your own herbs is a great way to start growing your own food. It's easy and herbs add depth and flavor to all your recipes. Here are the steps I outlined in this episode. Growing your own herbs is a great way to start growing your own food. It's easy and herbs add depth and flavor to all your recipes. Can You Dig It Gardening Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:20:03 GMT Gregory Schaefer http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/growing-herbs-home.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/permaculture-principles-diversity.html Diversity breeds resilience. Cultivate it wherever you can-but too much of a good thing can get you in trouble too. Diversity breeds resilience. Cultivate it wherever you can-but too much of a good thing can get you in trouble too. Gardening Green Your Yard Organic Gardening Tips Permaculture Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT Sami Grover http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/permaculture-principles-diversity.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/planting-placenta-fruit-trees.html Planting a placenta fruit tree may be gross to some. But it's really the ultimate form of upcycling. And it's a great traditional way to commemorate birth. Planting a placenta fruit tree may be gross to some. But it's really the ultimate form of upcycling. And it's a great traditional way to commemorate birth. Babies Gardening Organic Gardening Tips Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT Sami Grover http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/planting-placenta-fruit-trees.html