Category: Gardening

Planting Sweet Potato and a Few Tips for Continual Yields

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May 12, 2013

Uploaded on Jul 24, 2011

Don’t be afraid to grow sweet potato. Normally a hot weather crop you can grow these in the northern US and Canada as well if you start early or if you are not afraid to grow indoors.

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Harvesting & Growing Sweet Potatoes. Part 1

mugsyjeff

Uploaded on May 22, 2011

Harvest of 4 plants. We’ve uploaded a video cooking the leaves. So check it out, if you like.

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Planting Sweet Potato in Straw Bales

GettingThereGreen

Published on Jun 25, 2012

An experiment at best, we try to grow sweet potato in straw bales. We think it’ll work great and give us long healthy potatoes, we shall see!!!

Don’t forget about our contest! Check it out at http://www.gettingtheregreen.com

Sponsors:
1. Grass Root Gardens – Neem Oil
2. Manabu Farms – Custom Glass Blowing (starter pot)

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Yes! You can grow sweet potato in straw bales

GettingThereGreen

Published on Oct 18, 2012

our first attempt to grow in straw bales and we chose to grow sweet potato. It worked!!! tonight was the first time I even attempted to see if anything was growing in there. What a success! LOL it was after dark when I did this so after pulling out the big one, I didn’t continue looking.
And we baked it and ate it for supper. mmmmmm

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Southeast sweet potato crop off to ‘cold’ start (southeastfarmpress.com)

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Tags: Potato, Sweet potato, Sweet Potatoes and Yams

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Container Gardening with Flowers, Annuals, Perennials and Herbs

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May 1, 2013

Campbell Ferrara

Uploaded on May 31, 2011

Campbell & Ferrara plant expert Dodi Turney will help you learn how to choose and combine the best plants for your container garden. Planted containers create an instant garden and are the ultimate fashion statement in modern urban gardening.

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Patio Vegetable Gardening

VirginiaFarmBureau

Uploaded on Jan 6, 2011

Everyone can have a vegetable garden in the summer, even folks with just a few feet of patio space. Mark Viette explains how.

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Balcony Gardening

VeggieVillage

Uploaded on Jan 31, 2010

Yukari demonstrates how to make a balcony garden using permacultuure principals.

Container gardening essentials (readingeagle.com)
organic container garden – choosing the right container (omamas.com)
Perfect Self-contained Garden Space (cgrealestatepros.wordpress.com)
INSIDE THE BOX: Container gardening can be a better option for less-than green thumbs (aurorasentinel.com)
Gardening Without a Garden (autotard.net)
No Space to Grow Vegetables? Try Container Gardening as a Frugal Alternative (couponshoebox.com)
container gardening (whoshotthemonkey.wordpress.com)
How to Improve Your Container Garden (expertscolumn.com)
Find success with container gardening (The Item) (containergardening.wordpress.com)

Tags: Container, Container garden, Ferrara, Garden, Home, Kitchen garden, Plant

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Weedy Vegetables – Plants that Reseed Themselves to Make Gardening Easier

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April 30, 2013

growingyourgreens

Published on Apr 27, 2013

John http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ gives you a tour of his front yard garden and talks about weedy vegetables or plants that will re-seed themselves in your garden so you don’t have to replant them. In this episode John will share with you about a dozen crops that have dropped seed and come up on their own in his garden. By growing weedy vegetables it will reduce the amount of work so you can be eating more out of your organic garden and less out of the grocery store.

Horticulture News: No-till gardening helps with weeds (state-journal.com)
Organic Gardening Tips And Tricks Just For You (terimarti.wordpress.com)
Gardening With Gutner: What Can You Plant Right Now? (boston.cbslocal.com)
For the Butterflies (southofwhere.wordpress.com)

Tags: Garden, Home and Garden, organic, Plant, Vegetable

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Permaculture and No-Till Gardening

Filed under: Gardening, Organic, Permaculture — 1 Comment

April 30, 2013

Richters Herbs

Published on Feb 25, 2013

Permaculture is a system of ecological design that strives to emulate natural ecosystems so that our gardens and farms become self-sustaining, healthy and bountiful. It seeks to create gardens and landscapes that arrange all the elements of the design in ways that maximize the synergy of the design while minimizing the need for human inputs such as labour, fertilizer and pesticides. Trees and idea of forest gardening play a big part. Increasingly the principles of permaculture are being adapted for homes, even in the cities and suburbs. Travis Philp, a trained environmental and eco management technician, is a resident of the Greenshire Eco Farm where he manages the permaculture garden beds and looks after crop planting, maintenance, harvest and the weekly filling of food boxes. He will show you how to incorporate the principles of permaculture around your home or farm.
(Hugelkultur images courtesy Paul Wheaton, http://richsoil.com/hugelkultur.)

Permaculture – Hugelkulture (milumaca.wordpress.com)
International Permaculture Day May 5th! (gatherandgrow.org)
The No Dig, No Till Garden (permaculturecottage.wordpress.com)
International Permaculture Day (stroudcommunityweb.com)
Farming the Woods author Steve Gabriel on “The Permaculture Podcast” (farmingthewoods.com)
Taking Permaculture to The Next Level (theurbanecovillage.wordpress.com)
Permaculture: the link between sustainable living and environmental conservation – Part 2 (wordfromthesavanna.com)

Tags: Compost, Ecological design, Environment, Forest Gardens, Garden, Home, Permaculture, sustainability

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No dig garden construction – workshop

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April 30, 2013

Myk Rushton

Uploaded on May 7, 2011

This is the full video of the no dig garden construction workshop from 2009 that the previous quick video was made from. The video features Bob Jones and Myk Rushton

You do not have to follow the video specifically, you can use different materials – just follow the general pattern of construction

Visit the New Zealand no dig garden website http://www.no-dig-gardening.org or the http://www.permaculture.org.nz if you wish to further discuss this or other techniques for a resilient future

The No Dig, No Till Garden (permaculturecottage.wordpress.com)
Will Britain have to dig for survival? (shedforce.com)

Tags: Garden, Garden design, New Zealand, Oceania, Permaculture

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Farmtina Dark Rye – Urban Gardening in NYC

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April 19, 2013

Big City Farmers Take to the Rooftops (yesmagazine.org)

Tags: gardening, Brooklyn, New York City, Container Gardening, urban gardening

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Guerilla Gardening with an old tradition collective community mindset : thrdPlace, a newly-launched local platform for social action is tapping into online communities to drive action on the ground

Filed under: Activism, Community, Community Gardens, Crossroads News : Changes In The World Around Us And Our Place In It, Environmental, Gardening, Green Projects, Land, Nature, Social Networks, Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands — Leave a comment

April 8, 2013

Monday, April 8, 2013

Want to Build a Guerrilla Garden? This Crowdsourcing Platform Could Help

Wendy Moore

Activist Post

So you know of an open lot in your neighborhood that would be perfect for a community garden. You really, really want to build one, but you don’t quite know how to pull it off. Let’s be honest—the idea of pulling off a garden build can be pretty daunting. You need a lot of supplies, possibly some funds, and, ideally a bunch of people to help—unless you feel like devoting the next couple weekends to digging.

You’ve heard of barn raising, right? That old tradition of collective community action in which the whole community used to gather together to build a barn for their neighbor. At thrdPlace, a newly-launched local platform for social action, we’re bringing it back by tapping online community to drive on the ground action.

So, think barn raising and replace it with… community gardens, mural creation, or art pop-ups. We help get the word out and recruit people to get involved by sharing the story of your project through the social networks of each person who comes to your project page and clicks to support your project.

What does this look like in real time? This past weekend we helped the Social Justice Learning Institute, a local Los Angeles nonprofit “dedicated to improving the education, health, and well being of youth and communities of color by empowering them to enact social change through research, training, and community mobilization,” to organize and execute 10 backyard gardens at South L.A. homes as part of their 10 Homes–10 Seeds initiative.

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Want to Build a Guerrilla Garden? This Crowdsourcing Platform Could Help (activistpost.com)
thrdPlace wants to help make LA a better place to live (latechrise.com)
Resources for Starting a Faith Based Community Garden – 2013 (godspace.wordpress.com)
Guerilla Gardeners and Bragaw-Glenn Community Garden (alaskapublic.org)
TED Talk -A guerilla gardener in South Central LA (john-king.me)
Athens-Clarke commissioners want to grow interest in community gardens (onlineathens.com)
Guerrilla Gardening in South Central L.A. (eatdrinkbetter.com)

Tags: Barn raising, Community, community garden, Garden, Los Angeles, Social actions, social justice, South Los Angeles

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The Art of Resistance

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March 29, 2013

Reblogged from akkaoldfart:

Rebel of Oz – March 15, 2013

This is my eighth year as a full time Internet activist. The longer I’m fighting this “War on Evil”, the more I’m concerned with the effectiveness of resistance. No matter what our cause, liberty, false-flag terrorism, free Palestine, debt-free currency, New World Order, Illuminati, chemtrails, vaccination, cancer cures, drug prohibition, or historic revisionism, we must first and foremost make a conscience decision about what’s more important to us, being right or resisting effectively.

Bosco Verticale: The World’s First Vertical Forest Nears Completion in Milan

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March 20, 2013

Reblogged from misebogland:

Milan is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and the Bosco Verticale project aims to mitigate some of the environmental damage that has been inflicted upon the city by urbanization. The design is made up of two high-density tower blocks with integrated photovoltaic energy systems and trees and vegetation planted on the facade. The plants help capture CO2 and dust in the air, reduce the need to mechanically heat and cool the tower’s apartments, and help mitigate the area’s…

Monarch butterfly numbers drop by ‘ominous’ 59%

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March 18, 2013

CBC News

Posted: Mar 16, 2013 4:22 PM ET

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2013 4:21 PM ET

The decline in the Monarch population now marks a statistical long-term trend and can no longer be seen as a combination of yearly or seasonal events, experts say.

The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 per cent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.

It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and Canada to spend the winter sheltering in mountaintop fir forests in central Mexico. Six of the last seven years have shown drops, and there are now only one-fifteenth as many butterflies as there were in 1997.

In the Hamilton region, Monarchs have been faced with a loss of habitat for many years said Jen Baker, Head-of-the-Lake Land Trust Program co-ordinator for the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club. Milkweed, the Monarchs’ main food source as well as where they lay their eggs, has been decreasing in the region.

“Milkweed can’t necessarily grow in fields that are sprayed for weeds. It might be good for crops, but it’s bad for milkweed,” she said, adding that invasive species also pose a risk.

“Dog Strangling Vine is an invasive plant that is a cousin of the milkweed. We’ve found some females will lay their eggs on the vine and the babies die because that’s not their food.”

Both planting milkweed and trying to control the Dog Strangling Vine population are both efforts the Naturalists’ Club encourages, Baker added.

The decline in the Monarch population now marks a statistical long-term trend and can no longer be seen as a combination of yearly or seasonal events, the experts said.

But they differed on the possible causes.

There are issues facing Monarchs south of the border, too, according to experts. Illegal logging in the reserve established in the Monarch wintering grounds was long thought to contribute, but such logging has been vastly reduced by increased protection, enforcement and alternative development programs in Mexico.

The World Wildlife Fund, one of the groups that sponsored the butterfly census, blamed climate conditions and agricultural practices, especially the use of pesticides that kill off the Monarchs’ main food source, milkweed. The butterflies breed and live in the north in the summer, and migrate to Mexico in the winter.

“The decrease of Monarch butterflies … probably is due to the negative effects of reduction in milkweed and extreme variation in the United States and Canada,” the fund and its partner organizations said in a statement.

Monarchs ‘a shared responsibility’ Omar Vidal, the World Wildlife Fund director in Mexico, said: “The conservation of the Monarch butterfly is a shared responsibility between Mexico, the United States and Canada. By protecting the reserves and having practically eliminated large-scale illegal logging, Mexico has done its part.”

“It is now necessary for the United States and Canada to do their part and protect the butterflies’ habitat in their territories,” Vidal said.

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Sample Photos of Monarch Caterpillars, Butterflied and different varieties of Milkweed to assist in identifying for a butterfly garden