Archive for December, 2009



Neighborhood news: Basics of gardening (News & Messenger)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 5:12 am

Aspiring and experienced gardeners from western Prince William County are encouraged to discover the science behind gardening, plant culture and pest and disease solutions.

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Gardening and cooking tips featured at Herb Day Jan. 16 (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 4:12 am

URBANA — Using herbs as seasoning in foods will be one of the featured topics at this year’s University of Illinois Herb Day.

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NORTH COAST GARDENING: Take advantage of sunny days in January (Eureka Times-Standard)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 4:12 am

January is perhaps the least likely month to consider gardening. Rain, wind, frost and short days make even the simplest chores a bother. Still, the fickle weather of the North Coast occasionally blesses us with brief afternoons of spring-like

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A Gardening Brown Bag Lecture at Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Botanic Garden (Zoo and Aquarium Visitor)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 3:12 am

A January Brown Bag Lecture Focusing on Indoor Gardening Projects By Amy Landers Albuquerque, NM - If you are like most gardeners, January has found you wistfully looking out the window at the vacant garden outside waiting for the first days of spring when you can joyfully return your fingers and toes to the soil. To alleviate your gardening midwinter blues, the January Brown Bag Lecture will …

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Old Christmas trees yield fragrant mulch (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 3:12 am

CORPUS CHRISTI —The end of the Christmas season wouldn’t be complete without one more act of giving.The city’s solid waste department is hosting its annual Christmas tree recycle Jan. 9 and Jan. 16.City officials are expecting 2,000 to 3,000 trees, which will be ground into a fragrant mulch and provided to the public Feb. 1, in time for spring gardening.Volunteers will be available to help …

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“The Dirt on Gardening” (Goshen News)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 2:12 am

Have you ever had a plant that you loved and thought “My, I wish I had a fresh new specimen of that same plant” but that you didn’t know how to go about reproducing one?

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Senior Neighbors Offers Gardening Classes By Master Gardeners Jeff Jarrett And Bud Hines (The Chattanoogan)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 1:12 am

Senior Neighbors, an Alexian Brothers ministry, will offer gardening classes on Friday, Jan. 15 and Friday, Jan. 22, at their center at 1000 Newby Street (corner of 10th and Houston streets) in downtown Chattanooga.

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The year in gardening: From Michelle Obama to stink bug invasions (The Star-Ledger)

Thursday 31 December 2009 @ 1:12 am

Highlights and low points from 2009 gardening news.

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Market gardening school coming (The Enid News & Eagle)

Saturday 26 December 2009 @ 5:12 am

Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Noble Foundation, Kerr Center and Oklahoma Department of Agriculture are working to provide the 2010 Oklahoma Market Gardening School in Enid next month.

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Gardening Q&A: Weevil harmful to trees (The News-Press)

Saturday 26 December 2009 @ 5:12 am

I have a small whitish bug eating the leaves on my swamp maples, oak and black olive trees.

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