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My mom and I both love to grow corn. There's something amazing and magical about those tall wavy plants and the ears that spring into physicality before your eyes. It's American as can be; the cultural significance is as mysterious and nuanced as crop circles.
And, according to my favorite garden...
Jail Time for a Vegetable Garden?
8:30AM 7/20/2011
Earlier this month, an Oak Park, Mich., woman came face to face with the prospect of hard time for the crime she'd committed: nurturing tiny baby pea pods, little baby zucchinis, and sweet, juicy tomatoes in her front yard.
I know! Young people these days. I'm shaking my head, too. Ninety-three...
An 'Unprecedented' Bat Die-Off Could Devastate U.S. Agriculture
9:45AM 10/12/2010
A fungus is quickly wiping out most of North America's bats. Bats eat vast quantities of bugs that would otherwise eat crops, so if researchers can't save them, U.S. agriculture will suffer.
Free issue of Gardening How To magazine
12:45PM 9/29/2010
Get a free issue of Gardening How-To magazine from the National Home Gardening Club when you sign up for a free trial club membership, which will cost $1 a month when the trial ends. You can receive the first issue of the bi-monthly magazine free, then cancel the membership bill if you do not want...
Topsy Turvy Planter review: Tomatoes can grow upside down
8:00AM 8/19/2010
The Product: Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter
The Price: $19.99 plus $7.95 shipping and handling
The Claims: Grows delicious tomatoes without the back-breaking work.
Buy-O-Meter Rating: 4 out of 5
Target to Close All In-Store Garden Centers by End of September
8:49AM 8/16/2010
Retailer Target (TGT) will close all of its in-store garden centers by the end of next month.
The 262 in-store garden centers are mostly located in Florida, California, Arizona and Nevada, The Florida Times-Union reported. They are a minority of the 1,800 Target stores in 49 U.S states.
Once...
Home Depot garden coupons
11:30AM 8/11/2010
Join the Home Depot Garden Club and get an occasional email with gardening tips, product reviews, and coupons. It's a combo of a soft sell for Home Depot garden products and useful gardening tips that are widely applicable. If you are joining just for the coupons, the subject line of the emails you...
As summer temperatures lure us out into our yards, it's hard not to notice all those landscaping tasks we let languish all spring. When hiring a gardener is not in the budget, or when there is no gardening budget at all, here are some simple and inexpensive tasks garden experts recommend.
Michael...
Edible landscaping is an investment that pays off in small and big ways. After we replaced our lawn with a food garden two years ago, people started to stop and stare in admiration at our yard. What's more, the garden now produces big value: $200 in supplies has thus far yielded about $1,000 in produce.
The Moneyning blog recently did an excellent post on 10 expenses that will cost you more to do yourself than it would to hire someone to do it for you or simply just buy the finished product. This list, however, is just the tip of the iceberg. It included:
Growing your own food
Printing...
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