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Showing posts with label Community Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community Garden. Show all posts
Friday, July 10, 2009
Growing together | Community Living | Liberty Tribune
Monday, July 6, 2009
New to gardening? Learn from Master Gardeners. | csmonitor.com
As a horticultural extension agent, Bobby Wilson is often approached by beginner vegetable gardeners who want to know if they should water every day.
“You don’t need to water every day,” he says. “I tell them to water Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.”
What he’s really telling them is that they should soak the soil and water again only when the top three inches has dried out, determined by using that most accurate of probes, your finger.
“That’s the proper way to do it, but people need a number,” said Mr. Wilson, who works in Atlanta and is also president of the American Community Gardening Association.
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New to gardening? Learn from Master Gardeners. csmonitor.com
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“You don’t need to water every day,” he says. “I tell them to water Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.”
What he’s really telling them is that they should soak the soil and water again only when the top three inches has dried out, determined by using that most accurate of probes, your finger.
“That’s the proper way to do it, but people need a number,” said Mr. Wilson, who works in Atlanta and is also president of the American Community Gardening Association.
Read more:
New to gardening? Learn from Master Gardeners. csmonitor.com
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Flowers to dye for
Downtown JC couple grows colorful flora in community garden
www.hudsonreporter.com
by Ricardo Kaulessar
Reporter Staff Writer
Stephen Howe and Michaela Harkins are checking on the marigolds, Black-eyed Susans, zinnias and other colorful flowers they are growing on a sunny, Sunday afternoon.
The Downtown Jersey City couple are growing their flowers in the Brunswick Community Garden on Brunswick Street this year. The garden is two lots on Brunswick Street adjacent to the Sixth Street Embankment that total one-10th of an acre, and is one of two community gardens in Jersey City.
Howe, who works for a Manhattan publishing company, and Harkins, who works in a software firm, decided not to do the usual planting of tomatoes or strawberries. Instead, they embarked upon an unusual planting based on a confluence of their respective interests.
Read more:
www.hudsonreporter.com
by Ricardo Kaulessar
Reporter Staff Writer
Stephen Howe and Michaela Harkins are checking on the marigolds, Black-eyed Susans, zinnias and other colorful flowers they are growing on a sunny, Sunday afternoon.
The Downtown Jersey City couple are growing their flowers in the Brunswick Community Garden on Brunswick Street this year. The garden is two lots on Brunswick Street adjacent to the Sixth Street Embankment that total one-10th of an acre, and is one of two community gardens in Jersey City.
Howe, who works for a Manhattan publishing company, and Harkins, who works in a software firm, decided not to do the usual planting of tomatoes or strawberries. Instead, they embarked upon an unusual planting based on a confluence of their respective interests.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Video on Veggielution Community Garden
www.mercurynews.com
View video of the groundbreaking of the nonprofit Veggielution community garden at Emma Prusch Farm Park.
View video of the groundbreaking of the nonprofit Veggielution community garden at Emma Prusch Farm Park.
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