Tag: Fruits &Amp; Vegetables
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3 Eco-Friendly Weed Killers While We Wait for the Weed-Killing Lasers
Got weeds? Three ways to kill weeds naturally with household items.
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How to Identify and Prevent Powdery Mildew Plant Disease
Preventing powdery mildew can be prevented in your garden. Be proactive to save time, money and heartache.
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Help Kickstart Bitponics: the Siri of Hydroponic Growing
Bitponics promises to take the guesswork out of hydroponic growing and make it accessible to us all.
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How a Fashion Designer's Food Forest is Changing his L.A. Neighborhood (VIDEO)
Fashion designer Ron Finley set out to build a food forest in a parkway to combat a food desert in L.A.
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The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can Commercial Tomato Flavor be Fixed?
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences
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How to Tattoo a Banana: A Non-Toxic, Waste-Free Art Project
For those who can't stop playing with their food, here's how to turn a banana into a green, fleeting work of art.
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Test Your Potting Soil Quality Before Planting Your Container Garden
Not all potting soil mixes are created equal. Conduct this simple test to see how it drains and retains water.
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Why Was the Reusable Bag Blamed for a Norovirus Outbreak?
Recently, a reusable bag was blamed for the spread of a highly contagious virus. But it was just bad luck.
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Clever Plastic-Free and Low-Tech Ways to Store Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Skip the fridge and plastic bags when storing fruits and veggies. They'll last longer and taste better.
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Boston Gardening Initiative to Offer Free ‘TOM-ato’ Plants to Promote Urban Gardening
Boston is hosting a tomato plant giveaway to encourage new urban gardeners.
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10 Online Gardening Communities You Should Join
Have a gardening question, but no friends who garden? The Internet is filled with forums for every gardening topic imaginable that you can turn to when looking advice.
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5 Creative IKEA Hacks for the Garden
Hack these IKEA products into something new for your garden.
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The Do's and Don'ts of Backyard Composting
Follow these simple rules for composting success.
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Alphonso Mango Shortage Blamed on Climate Change
They are so good that Ben & Jerry named an ice cream after them.
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Cheap Sensor Measures Fruit Ripeness, Prevents Wasted Food
MIT researchers have come up with a sensor that can detect how ripe fruit is on store shelves, and tell managers to hurry up and sell it before it goes bad.
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Crisps, Betties, Buckles and Slumps: The Who’s Who of Fruit Desserts
Not as fussy as pies, this rough-and-tumble family of baked fruit dishes are rustic, charming, and a highly pleasant way to employ the seasonal fruit starting to make its appearance.
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Breadfruit Trees are 'Trees That Feed' and Create Jobs in Jamaica
Breadfruit trees planted by Trees That Feed Foundation are creating food systems and jobs in Jamaica.
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These 5 Self-Watering Planters Make Vegetable Gardening Easy
Eliminate the guesswork of when to water your container garden with these five examples of self-watering planters
