Tag: Gardening
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Grow Your Own Garden Chair With Chair Farm
German designer Werner Aisslinger's Chair Farm is a "steel corset" that trains plants into chairs.
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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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Inside Northwestern's Off-the-Grid Tiny House
Northwestern's Tiny House Project shows how we can live smaller and more sustainable.
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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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Small Gardens have Water Saving Ideas Galore at Chelsea Flower Show
There are several interesting small gardens at the show that are examining the need to conserve water.
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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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Pop-Up Gardens, Other 'Urban Interventions' to be Showcased at Venice Architecture Biennale
Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.
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Chelsea Flower Show's Winning Gardens are Sustainable and Stunning
It's the 99th year for the mother of all garden shows and many of the winners have an environmental twist to them.
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Bees Prefer Working Class Gardens Over Affluent Gardens
Want to help bees? New research points to them preferring simple flowers in gardens over hybrids and cultivars.
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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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Harvest the Rain with these 4 DIY Rain Barrels
Do rainy days get you down? Build a rain barrel and look forward to the rain.
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Star Wars on Weeds: Could Lasers Replace Herbicides?
Toxic chemicals kill unwanted weeds, but at a cost. Labor intensive organic methods won't be adopted by industrial farms. Could lasers be the answer?
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Why You Shouldn't Buy Ladybugs for Natural Pest Control in your Garden
Got ladybugs? Encourage native ladybugs in your garden instead of buying wild-harvested ladybugs to manage pests.
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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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Budget Cuts Have Made City Trees Deadly, With Victims Receiving Huge Payouts
Pity the neglected trees in New York City...
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'Bio Computer' Blends Tech and Organic to Grow Wheatgrass
A self-described geek harvests the waste-heat of a computer tower to grow wheatgrass in his basement.
