Turning Cover Crops
Let us depart from conventional wisdom of turning cover crops into the soil beneath. Let us instead take a lesson from John Jeavons' GROW BIOINTENSIVE method and use the cover…
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Turning Cover Crops
Margo and Dan’s BioIntensive Farm
When I spent three days learning the ways of GROW BIOINTENSIVE (GB) with John Jeavons and his team at Ecology Action in Willits, CA in 2009, two of my instructors…
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Margo and Dan’s BioIntensive Farm
06-27-12 June Exits, July Enters
06-27-12 June Exits, July Enters In this issue: June in the Garden Organic Gardening 101- July 15th Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Zucchini Cobbler Gardenerd Product of the Month: Gardenerd…
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06-27-12 June Exits, July Enters
04-25-12 The Only Planet We’ve Got
4-25-12 The Only Planet We've Got In this issue: April in the Garden Composting Class - short version Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Spring Cleaning Gardenerd Product of the Month:…
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04-25-12 The Only Planet We’ve Got
2012 Olympic Gardening Events
The 2012 Summer Olympics, with all of its pageantry and intense competition, runs the gamut featuring “26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines,”
according to Wikipedia. But we feel that the Olympic Committee has left a few important garden-related sporting events out of the competition this year. Perhaps we’ll see one of these Top
5 Gardening Events at the Olympics next time in Rio:
1) …
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2012 Olympic Gardening Events
06-27-12 June Exits, July Enters
In this issue: June in the Garden Organic Gardening 101- July 15th Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Zucchini Cobbler Gardenerd Product of the Month: Gardenerd Grocery…
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06-27-12 June Exits, July Enters
Ask Gardenerd: Why Won’t My Plants Grow?
A familiar question arrived in the Ask Gardenerd Inbox this week:
“Hi Gardenerd! It’s been slow getting started with my garden because my life has been chaotic for a while. Anyway, I started some seedlings
inside and potted them in small pots outside and some in a long box but they haven’t grown, they still look like seedlings for two months now, and my broccoli raab, red kale, and red romaine wouldn’t
grow past four or five inches. I’m so discouraged but my sister …
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Ask Gardenerd: Why Won’t My Plants Grow?
04-25-12 The Only Planet We’ve Got
4-25-12 The Only Planet We've Got In this issue: April in the Garden Composting Class - short version Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Spring Cleaning Gardenerd…
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04-25-12 The Only Planet We’ve Got