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Burpee Top Rated Products, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT

Featured Review: Arugula Rocket - 1 Pkt. (500 seeds)

Arugula Rocket - 1 Pkt. (500 seeds)

Average Customer Rating

5 out of 5

"Tender smooth leaves with robust, peppery flavor. Cook mature leaves with other greens. Ready to harvest in 35 days. Zesty accent in salad.<p>GARDEN HINTS: Grows best in cool weather. Can also be grown as a fall crop. Sow early in spring. Protect from heat with shade cloth. Likes fertile soil, ample water. Best when picked minutes before your meal. Thin plants 8"" apart. 500 seeds per packet, will plant about 30' of row. Grows best in full sun, will tolerate light shade."
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Featured Review

5 of 5
Great stuff
December 11, 2009
By dolly from Houston

"We like arugula so much, I have it in pots by the back door so we can easily pick it to add to sandwiches. Also excellent mixed in a lettuce salad. It does get quite peppery and rank when the weather is hot. Germinates very easily."

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Gardening: the latest gardening news and best gardening advice, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT

Gardening what's on in March

Our selection of gardens you can visit during the last week of March.

Gardening equipment test: best rakes

Before you buy a rake, be prepared. It's worth spending time trying out the various options first as it can save you aches, pains and limb fatigue in the future.

Free Abutilon suntense seeds

Best in a sheltered spot, this long-lived and quite hardy abutilon flowers almost constantly, with large lilac and mauve blooms.

Visit the open day for Muscari collection

Richard Hobbs, holder of the national collection of muscari (grape hyacinths), has postponed his open day once already, thanks to late flowering.

You Grow Girl: The Dirt, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT

Planting [Flickr]

yougrowgirl posted a photo:

These cardoon seeds look an awfully similar to sunflower seeds [Flickr]

yougrowgirl posted a photo:

Sweet Dianthus [Flickr]

yougrowgirl posted a photo:

The smell is fantastic

About.com Gardening: What's Hot Now, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT

Gardening Quiz: Latin Plant Names are Greek to Me.

Gardening quiz. Have some fun understanding the meaning of Latin plant names.

Feeding Spring Bulbs

When should you feed the spring blooming bulbs you planted last fall? Most everyone agrees that feeding spring flowering bulbs when they are first planted is a good way to start them off right. After that, agreement breaks down. Some experts recommend top dressing spring bulbs in the fall, others say to feed first thing in the spring. Here's some bottom line help with when to feed your bulbs.

Summer Squash

Summer squash should be in every home garden. Summer squash grows easily, tastes best freshly picked and comes in varieties from acorn to zucchini. The only trick to growing great summer squash is choosing the right varieties. If you love zucchini, there are dozens to try. But summer squash doesnt stop at zucchini. This profile of summer squash should convince you to try a few vines in your home garden.

A Gardener's Notebook, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT

I Like This â€“ March 18, 2010

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Bees are swarming and being captured all over Los Angeles (with video)

A recent blog post at the BackWards Beekeeping site included some photos and this video about capturing a recent swarm. Read “Your Bee Rescue Hotline at Work” Bees are swarming and being captured all over Los Angeles (with video) is a post from: A Gardener's Notebook Related posts:Freebies = Free Bees! I spotted this swarm hive in [...]

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Freebies = Free Bees! I spotted this swarm hive in this business sign...
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A recent blog post at the BackWards Beekeeping site included some photos and this video about capturing a recent swarm.

Read “Your Bee Rescue Hotline at Work”

Bees are swarming and being captured all over Los Angeles (with video) is a post from: A Gardener's Notebook

Freebies = Free Bees! I spotted this swarm hive in this business sign...
Video: Rain in Los Angeles Rain this solid is rare enough to be interesting...
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Event: Urban Beekeeping 101 â€“ June 5, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Seen on the Backwards Beekeepers site… Urban Beekeeping 101 Hosted by sustainablesilverlake.org at the Silver Lake Library Saturday June 5, 2010 @ 11AM Talk with Q&A by Kirk AndersonÂ and Leonardo Chalupowicz Kirk Anderson, a local master beekeeper, and Leonardo Chalupowicz, a local green architect and amateur beekeeper, will outline a brief history of bees and beekeeping and the [...]

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Seen on the Backwards Beekeepers site…

Urban Beekeeping 101
Hosted by sustainablesilverlake.org
at the Silver Lake Library
Saturday June 5, 2010 @ 11AM

Talk with Q&A by Kirk AndersonÂ and Leonardo Chalupowicz

Kirk Anderson, a local master beekeeper, and Leonardo Chalupowicz, a local green architect and amateur beekeeper, will outline a brief history of bees and beekeeping and the fundamentals of beekeeping in an urban setting. They will explore the basic equipment and techniques, how to do it the bee’s way versus the commercial way, and colony collapse disorder.

Video: Urban Beekeeping: Ins and Outs – Dos and Don’ts – Webinar (welchwrite.com)

Event: Urban Beekeeping 101 – June 5, 2010 is a post from: A Gardener's Notebook

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ScienceDaily: Botany News, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT

Grass, fungus combination affects ecology

Fescue grass covers an area equivalent to 12 million football fields in the US, and a new study by ecologists shows that the grass and a symbiotic fungus can affect local ecosystems in significant ways. Study results show that the genetic identity of an invisible fungus living symbiotically in fescue can alter the surrounding composition and diversity of the plant community.

Cows like leaves their tongues can wrap around easily

Lots of leaves growing in easy reach of a cow's tongue means less time and less land needed to raise beef cattle.

From international harbor to native habitat: Detecting exotic pests before forest and agricultural invasion

In the 1930s, soil used as ballast to weigh down cargo ships from South America to Mobile, Alabama introduced the red imported fire ant to the southern United States. Since then, the ants have been found as far north as Maryland and as far west as California, shorting out streetlights and eating through crops and native plants in the process. Since pests like the fire ant primarily enter the U.S. through international hubs like Mobile and then spread to nearby ecosystems, the early detection of exotic pests should start at the most vulnerable urban areas, researchers say.

GoArticles Gardening Recent Articles, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT

Top Riding Lawn Mowers

Riding mowers are great for a multitude of reasons, so please, sit back, read about the mowers I found, and make an informed decision. I've also listed some ways to replace tires, batteries and covers...

Growing Herbs Indoors

Herb gardening is becoming a very popular hobby. Not only do some herbs give off a very pleasing fragrance, they can also be used in recipes, which is probably the biggest reason why herb gardening is...

Impatients

Impatients There are many types of flower Impatients. Come in a variety of colors including white, red, purple and pink and purple coral. Even yellow. Great advantage that they thrive bloom in the sh...

Most Useful Garden Tools for Housewives

Grow several plants in the house and decorate the environment in everyday life, which could make the whole family live together become more vivid in mentally and physically, while to be a good housewi...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Gardening, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:01 GMT

6 new books for gardeners

A gardener's library should be enriched with practical and inspiring volumes as well as those that are just plain fun. Here are six recent releases for the aspiring or advanced green thumb.

Gardeners' World, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:01 GMT

Growing cut flowers on the allotment

We've just been allocated more space on the allotment ... As well as planting many more spuds - which will keep the 'old man' happy - we can also plant the cutting garden my daughter always wanted.

Signs of spring

I've just been wandering about the garden in my shirtsleeves, feeling the real warmth of the sun catch me, and it seems that all the wildlife has just been queuing up ready for this sunshine.

RHS Wisley

One if the best places at this time of year is the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in Surrey...

Zanthan Gardens, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:02 GMT

Week 11: Wearing the Green

2010-03-17. The cedar elms are leafing out well before the larkspur or bluebonnets are in full bloom. Spiderwort and irises are in flower as well as some minor bulbs. The pecan tree is the last to leaf out and the larkspur self sow around it.

GBBD 201003: March 2010

Grape hyacinths

Narcissus tazetta â€˜Grand Monarqueâ€™

2010-03-07. Narcissus 'Grand Monarque

Organic Gardening News, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:44:02 GMT

Break the Tradition... Un-corned Beef!

Tradition has it that up here at 42.77 north latitude you don't plant anything less hardy than a collard until after Memorial Day. But there is, of course, a contrary tradition of planting peas on St. Patrick's day, which I shall now be doing, at least in the places where the snow has melted and where I can get without waste-high mud boots.

There is also this tradition of eating corned-beef, which we will be reversing by eating un-corned beef, meaning we didn't get a brisket to put in brine, and the beef we eat now is grass-fed. So, no corned beef in anyway whatsoever today.

I will, however, still be drinking a Guinness this evening. Some traditions are worth keeping.

Weeds Genetically Engineer Themselves to Resist Roundup

Monsanto deserves its critics. They genetically engineered plants to resist Roundup, and now the weeds are doing the same to keep up. Way to go Monsanto...

in reference to:

"Scientists said on Friday they have confirmed expanding weed resistance to a key ingredient in Monsanto's (MON.N)widely used Roundup herbicide, a troubling development for farmers and fresh fodder for Monsanto critics."
- UPDATE 1-More US weeds found resisting Monsanto Roundup | Reuters (view on Google Sidewiki)

From the Grass-fed Duh Files

OK, I shouldn't be so harsh when people discover that grass-fed beef is better for you and the planet, especially when they're playing up the angle that rotating fields of grass-fed beef actually improves degraded soil. But it is a sort of duh. Just look at the fertile plains of North America that the settlers found under roaming buffalo that had built the prairie over eons of rotation through those fields. And look at those fields now... barren big agri wastelands polluted with petroleum-based farming known as synthetic chemical subsidized agri-business. And then look at the feed lots where thousands of animals are concentrated into environmental grass lands.

Then look at this:

Case rested.

Natural Pest Control Product

The question I get most often is how to get rid of bugs. The answer, for the garden at least, is to make sure your soil is healthy, which will make sure your plants are healthy (other factors do apply, like sun, temperature, water...), which will make the plants more able to resist bugs. Stressed out plants are bug magnets, since bugs are just doing their job by helping weed out the weaklings.

Occasionally, though, the bugs go crazy and attack everything. In that case, you need an organic and natural pest killer. Our friend Jackie (who makes great Hawaiian perfumes and body butters) recently started Natural Pest Free, which sells cedar-oil-based natural pest control products.

CEDAR OIL for more than a 1000 years is and has been a proven method of pest control that emphasizes simple, inexpensive, 100% organic practices that cause no harm to people or the environment. CEDAR OIL focuses on building a barrier of entry on the perimeter of your property, so bugs stay out of your yard, which means they stay out of your home. At Natural Pest Free we are dedicated to reducing the health risk and environmental impacts of pesticides and promoting organic alternatives to homeowners across America, one home at a time.

I'm a big fan of the natural barrier plan. I surround my garden with rows of clover, which rabbits and deer love. They'll stop and eat the clover and be happy with it, never making it deep into the garden where the expensive goodies are. Occasionally there's a deer (like our regular visitor, Scarface, shown here), who gets deep into the garden where he's learned to love pea shoots (who doesn't). In that case I use hot pepper waxes, another barrier--one that sends scarface running for the nearest water.

So, a cedar oil barrier makes sense for keeping the bugs out. I suggest using it sparingly, mostly when there's a serious infestation of something you really need to stop. Remember, when you're gardening, most bugs are beneficial, so you don't want to just keep all bugs out.

But in your home is another matter. This is a great product for use as an in-home pesticide.

...control of Head lice, Mosquitoes, Flies, Fleas, No-See-Um, Chiggers, Ticks, Chinch Bugs, Grub Worms, Mites, Mole Crickets, Earwigs, Slugs, Snails, Caterpillars, Beetles, June Bugs, May Bugs, Root Maggots, Army Worms, Weevils, Wire Worms, Ants and Termites.