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In Your Garden
- What to prune now
and how includes links to videos and more. And here's more: Pruning Chores for
Early March
- Lawn look like crap? Now's the time to follow the simple, organic lawn care regimen of a blogreader. The year-round maintenance plan of a real-life sustainable gardener.
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And here's the overview of what to do now, with the urgent title: "Do something NOW about your garden!"
In the News
- Exciting research from Rodale - how no-till agriculture can combat global warming.
- Next, what we gardeners know, that horticulture ALSO combats climate change, according to an article in the U.K.-based publication Horticulture Week. Food gardening is singled out as extra-helpful because it reduces consumption of meat, which is so resource-intensive to produce.
- What else combats climate change? According to this
article [pdf], mycorrhizal fungi.
With the addition of our favorite fungi, soils
and perennial grasses sequester even more carbon.
- And plant geeks, this is for you - an evolutionary tree of plant tree.
- Fine Gardening has launched VegetableGardener.com to help us newbie veg-growers get up to speed.
- The UK has a Plan Bee (to save the bees). Do we?
On the Sustainable Gardening Blog
- Tabard Inn's Green Roof: a Downtown Garden for Roses and Herbs by a guest blogger I met at Rooting DC, a very successful urban gardening forum
- The wisdom of Suzanne Wainwright-Evans
in The Bug Lady
Speaks
- Hollywood Juniper - Lovely, Sculptural Deer Food is a lament, but a reader comment (from a pro) might keep this thing alive.
On Sustainable Gardening.com
- Green Dumping Must Stop by our newest contributor and my main gardening guru in the world, Ann Lovejoy.
Ann also brings us How to Keep your Thirsty Lawn Happy.
Knock Out Roses, the newest sponsor of the website, the blog and this newsletter, get their own page. With full disclosure, of course.
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