Don’t get hung up on how long it should take or how many citrus peels are too many. As one longtime composter put it, “My rule is: Don’t worry about it.”
These shade perennials will brighten any dark corner of your garden, including the spots where the sun doesn't reach. From flowers to ferns, choose from our favorite low-light-tolerating perennials for shade.
LINCOLN, Neb. — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and Nebraska Extension will host a high school student gardening competition this summer for the third time.
What if you could save money, grow a wildly productive garden, use less water and cut back on adding waste to the landfill â all while nature does most of the heavy lifting? Those are just some of the many benefits to home composting. Your compost system can be as simple or elaborate as you want â from a pile to a bin to a tumbler to squiggling vermicomposting â and will provide the lynchpin to successful gardening. Composting can be done indoors or outside. Adhering to a few simple rules will have you making âblack goldâ before the snow flies.
âItâs no more complicated than emptying a trash can,â says Greg Snader of Manheim Township, a longtime composter and gardening enthusiast. âItâs an easy, low-tech way to address food waste.â
Green Building: Bugs in the (green) system
5 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Qiyi City Forest Gardens, in Chengdu, China. Photo / EPA
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By The Conversation.
Throughout the world, architects are designing green buildings, whether it's in their sustainable construction, environmentally friendly operation or actually green by style.
It's broadly titled biophilia, connecting people with nature, and it can lead to some creative and innovative designs.
But now we are finding that literally greening the world — by covering building walls and roofs with vegetation — can also come with some unexpected problems.
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In the Chinese city of Chengdu, a vast green experimental housing estate of 826 apartments was constructed where people can live in a vertical forest with every open space and balcony containing live vegetation.
20 of the best Pacific Northwest garden books: See authors at the Great Grow Along virtual festival
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Are you ready to get your hands back into soil? Now’s the time for seasoned gardeners to plot their harvest schedules and for those new to gardening to plan their next step. It’s estimated that 16 million Americans started gardening during the coronavirus pandemic.
Across the Pacific Northwest and beyond, people turned ignored patches of their yard into fertile plots to grow their own organic vegetables, herbs, berries and fruit.
As spring planting takes place, local nurseries and garden centers are prepared to provide information and materials.
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