“Staring at enticing photos of roses in magazines, books, and catalogs during winter makes it easy to conjure up images of warm days, fragrant blooms, and lush green foliage. But one look outside quickly snaps you back to reality: The garden’s a mess” is how Lynn Hunt introduces her piece on Spring Cleaning in the [...]
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Spring Clean the Roses and Scrap the Lawn
March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening News
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Forest Gardens And Talking Weeds
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Garden Gadgets, Gardening News
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Willie Chance who is now retired from UGA Extension in Houston County says that he knows of no reason not to talk to your plants, but suggests you stop if they begin to talk back. In fact he is making a serious point that although you will not hear what they are saying, [...]
Welcome To The New Look
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening News
Welcome to the new look Garden Supplies News. I was never entirely happy with the previous design although it was the best I could find at the time. Recently I came across this design by Chris Pearson which is plain and simple and so easier to read. But it is far more flexible allowing me [...]
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How To Grow New Vegetables In 2010
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening News
Yet another report confirms that growing your own vegetables is becoming ever more popular. “According to November’s Edible Gardening Trends Research Report sponsored by the Garden Writers Association, food gardening will continue to be big, with 37 percent of the households surveyed planning to expand their food garden this year. Many seed companies are paying [...]
Gray Water And A Travelling Garden
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening News
When you see a headline “Giant Man-Shaped Travelling Garden” and below it a picture of a plot measring 60 meters square planted with herbs in the shape of a man, there is clearly a problem. How can a large herb garden firmly rooted in the earth travel even a few meters, let alone from town [...]
Uphill Waterfalls, Talking Plants and 5 Myths
January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening News
Scanning the headlines for topics to write about I have found three unusual items for today’s post. Water that flows uphill, plants that talk and five gardening myths.
Starting with the water this is a waterfall, or rather a water feature consisting of four waterfalls in which the liquid appears to travel uphill. Inspired by the [...]
Last Few Days of the Year
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Gardening News
Another Christmas has come and gone and we head towards the end of the year. As usual the children, or in my case, grandchildren had the greatest fun this Christmas. The adults exchanged gifts of the usual kind, chocolates and other fattening goodies to add to all the weight added by loads of turkey and [...]
Sky Planters, Christmas Trees and a Hori Hori
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Gardening News
In general December is a quiet month for gardeners since most people are now concentrating on preparing for Christmas. There’s plenty of advice in the local papers on what to buy your gardening friends, but it’s mostly the same suggestions that we get every year. One headline that did catch my eye was “Nothing says [...]
Yesterday I Lost An Old Friend
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Gardening News
As long as we have lived in this house my wife and I have always admired two tall poplar trees in a neighboring garden. Watching the leaves appear each spring – my wife insists that April 20 is the date when they are fully in leaf, and then gradually losing them in the fall so [...]
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The End Is Near and the Blue Rose
November 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Gardening News
“The End Is Near!” screams the headline, but all that it portends is the passing of the seasons as we come to the end of another gardening year. The article itself is a chatty interview with three gardening experts from the Twin Cities, “Don Engebretson, author of five garden books, who also runs the Renegade [...]
