Category: Organic Gardening
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These gardening gifts include handcrafted garden tools, accessories, clothes, and more with some made of sustainable materials. Source: Terrain Transparency Matters: If you click on any links on this page, Green Matters may earn a commission (at no additional cost to you). Each item is hand-selected by editors with the planet — and people –…
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A couple of decades ago, the novelist Barbara Kingsolver wrote a beautiful memoir called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, an account of her and her family trying to live more self-sufficiently for a year. It’s less quippy than Reddit, but it makes similar points. Growing produce can be hard, time consuming and expensive. It requires planning, commitment…
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– Step-by-step advice for success with more than 30 vegetables in any zone|The dirt on soil: why testing is so important—and how to do it|Easy techniques for growing in-ground plus alternatives to traditional raised beds|Seed-starting and -saving methods simplified|Gardeners’ friends and foes: which plants help (or hinder) vegetables|Enlightening (and humorous!) anecdotes from fellow gardeners|Space for…
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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Plucking ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, and heads of lettuce all year long in your apartment sounds like a dream to both a couch potato and a houseplant hobbyist. Thanks to hydroponic cultivation, this is possible, even without playing hours of Stardew Valley or Terrarium. Hydroponic…
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The growing season is in full swing, and by now, most of your spring sowings will be burgeoning young plants (or even harvests!). Still, there are some vegetables you can sow in summer – and there’s plenty to keep you busy over the next couple of months. If you’re figuring out what to plant in…
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– Newly Revised with the Latest, Safest Organic Solutions. [product_summary]
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Every March, my family and I circle a weekend on the calendar, gather our tools and prepare to do some serious gardening. Of course, it’s still too cold at that time of year for digging in the dirt outside (at least here in New York). Instead, we carefully take time to select everything we’ll want…
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Everybody loves palpating their turnips; just look at the success of Stardew Valley and its ilk for proof of that. But it turns out people really love some vegetable action, if the staggering success of Roblox game Grow a Garden is any indication, given it’s seemingly smashed through Fortnite’s previous gargantuan record for most…
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– Hardcover Book, Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener [product_summary]
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The Italian designed micro garden, measuring 30 x 10 x 10 centimetres, launched into orbit on the ESA’s VEGA-C Vector from Kourou in French Guinea last month. Scientists contributing to its creation came the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Federico II University of Naples, Sapienza University of Rome,…