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Seed Catalog Highlights

I love the sound of seed catalogs dropping into the mailbox. There’s a particular “clunk” of distinctive heft that only a thick garden catalog can make. I keep a pen close at
hand as I dog-ear the pages and circle interesting new varieties, dreaming of their vibrance in the garden.

This year heirloom varieties are popping up all over. The hunt for biodiversity is on, and we’re part of the plan for preservation. If you are into seed-saving, here are …

Quick Garden Refresher

Have you ever planted mint, thinking that it would be a nice addition to your vegetable or herb garden, only to find that in no time at all
it had taken over your garden and choked out your veggies? Well that’s what happened to Joan Wilner in Beverly Hills. She called me up to rescue her waning vegetable garden from the claws
of the overwhelming mint patch a couple of weeks ago.

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Come Join Us at the Go Green Expo

We’re heading into our first (and most likely only) trade show of the
year. You can come visit the Gardenerd.com booth, #106, to get your burning gardening questions answered, enter for a chance to win an Ultimate Garden Bag, and pick up some of your favorite
Gardenerd Gear at …

Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series Weekend Intensive

Coming up next week, the Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series will be offered for the first time ever as a Weekend Intensive.

HR 875 – Organic Consumers Association’s take on it

In an effort to read more into the recent rumor (or ‘myth’ as the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has put it) about HR 875 and the idea that it would ban organic farming, I found that the OCA website has been either hacked or blocked by every major search engine out there. It smells of conspiracy, since they are the voice of the people when it comes to organic standards and food safety. Not that I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I thought it was uncanny that while e-mails are flying around about this bill, the …

Organic Gardening Classes – Coming Soon!

In our last newsletter, we announced the brand new Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series. In case you missed the newsletter, here is a reprint of
that announcement. Be sure to click on the link at the end of the article to get your name on the V.I.P. list for the most up to date information about the classes being offered:

Attention all Gardenerds! Are you a beginning to intermediate
level gardener longing for a basic Organic Gardening 101 class? Maybe you are a veteran gardener who wants to brush up on organic gardening …