Articles by Tag Feed http://planetgreen.discovery.com RSS Feed for a Tag Extend Your Growing Season: In Praise of Floating Row Cover http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/extend-growing-season-cover.html Floating row cover is one of the cheapest, easiest ways to extend your growing season. And that means more homegrown lettuce. Floating row cover is one of the cheapest, easiest ways to extend your growing season. And that means more homegrown lettuce. Can You Dig It Green Your Yard Organic Gardening Tips Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:22:00 GMT Sami Grover http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/extend-growing-season-cover.html Organic Gardening 101: 5 Tips for Avoiding Seed Catalog Overspend 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 Avert a Food Crisis: 5 Tips for Saving Phosphorus in the Garden 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 5 Must-Have Books for Urban Gardeners 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 Tired of Mowing? Make a Meadow and Start Now! 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 Permaculture Principles: Diversity 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 Build a Better Garden... With Fish Poop? http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/grow-garden-fish-poop.html 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. 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. Gardening Green Your Yard Vegetables Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:45:00 GMT Jaymi Heimbuch http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/grow-garden-fish-poop.html Edible Landscape Showcase: Missouri's Heartland Harvest Garden http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/edible-landscape-showcase.html 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 "window shop of possibilities". 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 "window shop of possibilities". Eco-Friendly Foods Food Miles Gardening Green Your Yard Local Food Organic Gardening Tips Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT Derek Markham http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/edible-landscape-showcase.html Cardboard Makes Awesome Mulch! http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/carboard-awesome-mulch.html A cardboard mulch feeds the soil, prevents weeds and retains moisture. But is it better than recycling? A cardboard mulch feeds the soil, prevents weeds and retains moisture. But is it better than recycling? Gardening Green Your Yard Organic Gardening Tips Permaculture Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT Sami Grover http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/carboard-awesome-mulch.html Organic Gardeners! Make Money, Discover New Heirloom Plants with DoLeaf http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/organic-gardners-money-doleaf.html If you're looking for heirloom or hard-to-find plants, a new website has just the tool to make your search easy. If you're looking for heirloom or hard-to-find plants, a new website has just the tool to make your search easy. Green Your Yard Organic Organic Gardening Tips Vegetables Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT Jaymi Heimbuch http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/organic-gardners-money-doleaf.html