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National Gardening Lee Reich |
Organic Fertilizers How to choose and use organic fertilizers. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Testing If you've heard it once, you've heard it a hundred times: every garden should have its soil tested. |
National Gardening |
Building Soil 101 A steady program of soil building is like a steady program of physical conditioning. You'll get great results in the long run if you stick with it and don't go overboard right away. |
National Gardening |
Improve Soil Fertility with Compost A little soil common sense will go a long way to helping you understand how to care for your garden. All soils are not the same; they differ in many ways, including texture, fertility, and pH. |
National Gardening |
Organic Gardening 101 The gardener who is committed to organic gardening does not simply boycott artificial chemical fertilizers and pesticides. He or she is committed to techniques that build healthy soil. |
National Gardening |
Soil Fertility 101 Just as a good foundation is necessary to support a building, good soil is necessary to build a successful garden. All soil is not alike. It differs in texture, fertility, and balance. |
This Old House March 27, 2001 Lynn Ocone |
Growing Perfect Tomatoes Treat yourself to one of the true pleasures of summer: your own homegrown tomatoes fresh from the vine... |
National Gardening Carolyn Male |
Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves. |
National Gardening |
Preventing Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates. |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
Houseplants for People Who Can't Grow Houseplants No matter the color of your thumb, this guide will help you select and care for plants that will thrive. |
National Gardening |
Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
National Gardening |
Tools for Preparing the Garden Before a single plant even touches the ground in your garden, it would be wise to spend time preparing the soil. You'll have fewer weeds and diseases and better plant growth, flowering, and fruiting later. |
National Gardening Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
National Gardening |
Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff. |
National Gardening Warren Schultz |
Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil. |
High on Adventure April 2005 Giordano & Rosen |
Seaweed Lady A conversation with Diane Bernard, who harvests and supplies seaweed to spas and restaurants. Includes a discussion of how seaweed can be served and its high nutritional value. |
National Gardening |
Annuals and Perennials for Containers Learn the differences between annuals and perennials, and use this guide for planting and caring for them in containers. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
National Gardening June 2000 Beth Marie Renaud |
Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Grow Space-Saving Tomatoes If you only have a small garden, there are varieties of tomatoes that will fit perfectly into the space. |
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
This Old House Sal Vaglica |
All About Lawns Readers want to know how to grow a dense, healthy carpet of grass. Here, experts help you choose the right turf and the best way get the greenest lawn in the neighborhood. |
National Gardening December 1999 National Gardening Association |
They Live On Air... Exotic-looking tillandsias are easy to display and maintain, and make ideal houseplants |
Science News December 6, 2003 Janet Raloff |
Leaden Gardens Recognizing the threat posed by tainted soil, environmental scientists have warned that growing edible plants in soils near streets or within several feet of homes and other painted structures risks extracting lead from the soil and bringing it to the dinner table. |
National Gardening |
Maintaining Container Gardens These simple maintenance tasks will keep keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter. |
National Gardening Eliot Tozer |
A Gardener's Guide to Frost How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it... |
National Gardening |
Planting Groundcover Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate. |
AskMen.com Abigail Ekue-Smith |
Healthiest Seafood Incorporate seafood into your diet two to three times a week and you will see it is fairly easy to reap health benefits from the sea. |
National Gardening Ann Whitman |
Making a Water Garden in a Tub To the uninitiated, water gardens seem complicated, expensive, and fussy. But many of the principles of gardening in water are the same as those for gardening in soil. If you can grow a tomato, you can grow a water lily. |
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler |
Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps. |
This Old House February 2, 2001 Warren Schultz |
Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
National Gardening |
Planting a Window Box Combine flowering plants and those with attractive foliage in window boxes to add color to decks, window sashes, and porch rails. |
National Gardening Kasha & David Furman |
Chinese Tree Peonies A guide for planting and cultivating Chinese tree peonies. |
This Old House |
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
Chemistry World September 23, 2014 |
Chemistry in bloom There's chemistry among the specimens at many botanical gardens. Sarah Houlton talks to the scientists involved |
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Jon Evans |
New microbe turns sugary seaweed into fuel Seaweed may soon be a source of biofuel, thanks to an engineered microbe able to transform seaweed directly into ethanol. |
Salon.com February 6, 2002 Brenda Paik Sunoo |
A brew for all reasons Miyoguk (Korean Seaweed Soup): There is no better soup for a dose of magic and medicine... |
AskMen.com Adrienne Turner |
5 Superfoods You Don't Know About A healthy diet needn't be composed solely of spinach and salmon. Spice up your diet with some of these superfoods. |
National Gardening |
Buying Strawberry Plants What to look for and know when buying strawberry plants. |
Searcher March 2001 Janet Evans |
Gardening Resources on the Web In the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Library, we work with amateur gardeners who want to learn the art and science of horticulture. Like similar libraries, we answer thousands of garden-related inquiries each year. We also routinely use and recommend informative Web sites... |
This Old House Jeanne Huber |
Planting in Pots Container gardens are a movable feast for the senses. Here's how to assemble and care for knockout combinations |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Amber Dance |
Peering Back in Time Joseph P. Noel wants to use paleontology to learn how plants endured history's harsh climates and how to ready crops to face severe conditions in the future. |
National Gardening |
Choosing Perennial Plants When choosing perennial plants you'll need to consider their hardiness rating, your planting location, and when they flower so you'll have season-long color. |
Popular Mechanics June 13, 2008 Erin McCarthy |
5 Reasons Why Researchers Say The Happening Is Junk Science In these days of melting ice caps and wild weather, M. Night Shyamalan's new movie poses an interesting question: What happens if the environment, spurred by centuries of pollution and disregard, turns against us? |
Chemistry World April 29, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Tomatoes' cry for help turned into chemical weapon to battle insects Tomato plants not only take heed of their neighbours chemical 'warnings' but actually convert the signals into substances to defend themselves against imminent insect attack, researchers in Japan have discovered. |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2004 George Taninecz |
Long-Term Commitments Practices and performances validate world-class manufacturing facilities. |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2006 John Garippa |
Aging Industrial Plants Worthy of a Tax Discount While it may have been costly to build industrial plants, no evidence exists that the facilities would ever sell for the same use. For tax assessment purposes, taxing authorities must not look to the current use of the property. Rather, their focus must be on the market value in exchange. |