Garden Blog

No room for a garden?

Even apartment / condominium residents usually  have room for a micro-garden, utilizing Square Foot Gardening! This method uses boxes, a type of “intensive row” gardening (link from ag.Arizona.edu).
I originally purchased the book for my significant other (at the time), as she had difficulty growing a garden in our very poor soil. The book [...]

Community gardens

It is neat to read news stories about neighborhoods creating community gardens, where people who do not have room for growing a garden can “rent” garden space. A couple of resources:

Wikipedia on Community Gardening
Starting a Community Garden from communitygarden.org
The Greening of Detroit
This brings neighbors together, and is especially great for getting youngsters involved - primarily [...]

Food Poisoning

With the increasing numbers of food poisoning from commercially raised edibles, meat and veggies alike, it is clear that commercial producers DO NOT CARE about the health of people. I’m sure you have read the news stories, so I’m not going to post a bazillion links.
The best way to reduce the possibility of food poisoning [...]

Why grow your own veggies, or buy locally?

The most obvious FACT that commercially grown edibles are not as healthful, is TASTE! Beyond that are multiple studies done over the      years detailing the decrease in nutrients due to genetic manipulation to get higher crop yields, and resistance to disease and shipping damage. Here is just one of dozens of articles, [...]

Gardening biz

Ok, I have not been able to get comments section to show on the Gardening Page. Please use this post for commenting on my idea for this business. THANK YOU for taking the time to browse! I sincerely hope people in the area will get excited about this, as it would be allot of fun, [...]