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Stormwater Pollution and Gardening

Since Gardenerd.com is a proponent
of organic gardening and environmentally friendly living practices, we are always looking for ways to spread the word about how to conserve energy, prevent pollution and give back to the
earth. The LA Stormwater Program contacted us and asked if we could publish one of their articles that would help promote their
cause. We are pleased to present this important message from the LA Stormwater program:

Prized Possessions

I had a little car trouble a couple weeks ago and had to rent a car.

The Gardens of France – Part 2 – Valensole

Okay, this isn’t so much a garden as it is a farm, but the idea is the same – broad spectrum appreciation for what the earth can give us through growing plants.

I leafed through the guidebook to find the page highlighting a tour of lavender fields. We only had half a day, after having spent the morning in Tarascon at the farmer’s market, where we bought some
cheese, bread and tomatoes for lunch later on. We headed onward to Aix-en-Provence. We stopped in Aix for lunch; a peasant’s lunch on a stone bench. …

A Sentimental Tree

“[My daughter] has a tree she planted from seed. I’m not sure what it is, at one point thought it was a Chinese Elm. It has completely outgrown the huge pot it was in (cracked it in half wide open), and is much too large for us to keep in the pot, and no where to plant it. The tree is somewhat sentimental (if trees can be that – it is to us, we’re weird). Is there anyway I can keep part
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Die, grasshopper, die!

A great question came in this week: "What about Grasshoppers? I don't see them in the early part of the day, but last weekend I was watering near the end…