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Gardener's Dirt: Master Gardeners help organize others; shar...

Thirteen years ago, the Victoria County Master Gardener training program began with just 13 trainees through efforts of Texas AgriLife Extension. Since then, more than 300 people have received this intensive training and been certifi [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

City Rules Could Transplant Gardens

While New York City adopts increasingly progressive measures to promote sustainability, at least one "green" group remains unsatisfied. Community gardeners, charging that the most recent city regulations leave them largely unpro [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening Against the Odds awards 2011: Our runners-up

While we’re all eager to hail wounded heroes, we seem less ready to help those who have been damaged mentally by their efforts on our behalf. The stigma of mental illness is everywhere, discouraging sufferers from asking for help. [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening with the Masters: Fall pruning ...?Is this a good ...

Long before gardeners were running around with pruning tools, Mother Nature was tending to her plants with her own form of pruning. In nature, pruning is done on a much grander scale with tools such as wind, ice, fire, disease and snow, j [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

japanese garden and meditation centre

The Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre is a remarkable place. It is a uniquely beautiful garden, and also the home of Buddha Maitreya (pronounced 'My-treeya'), a spiritual teacher and creator of this wonderful space. T [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

NZ Gardener digs up country's gardening dynamos

A small Northland primary school that's created a natural cure for nits using ingredients from their garden, a young mother of four helping out families struggling with skyrocketing food prices, and an Auckland community garden using [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening: We all say tomato

I wrote about tomatoes this time last year, but such is the enduring popularity of this seasonal favourite that here I am again going through the motions with our friend "tomato". Besides it just wouldn't seem like Labour We [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Phuket Gardening - Keeping the flies at bay

As gardeners, we are all susceptible to mosquito bites every morning and evening in Phuket. Unfortunately, there are few entirely effective natural repellents against the dreaded mosquito bite of Aedes aegyptiae, the mosquito that can spr [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening world cup: An English success story

At a strange Dutch theme park in the south of Japan, British garden designers have been proving their worth at an extraordinary new gardening competition. Huis Ten Bosch, a replica of a 17th century Dutch village, near Nagasaki, is the sl [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening the Masters: Where’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Br...

One of the surest signs that fall is upon us is the appearance of pumpkins for sale along the roadside. If the pumpkins are ready for harvest, the frost upon them can’t be far behind. The search for the perfect pumpkin has become al [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening: Of Pansies and Violets

Flowers in the Winter: Gardening is a warm-weather affair up north. But here in the Carolina Piedmont, we can grow flowers all winter. Planted now in beds, boxes, borders and pots, pansies and violas will grow on the warmer days of the au [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Become a Master Gardener

County residents who want to learn and share environmentally sound gardening practices can apply to join the 2012 Master Gardener training program. The course is scheduled to run from Jan. 24 through March 9. Classes meet Tuesdays, Wednes [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Your gardening questions answered by Diarmuid Gavin

Last week, we took a look at the concerns of the readers of the Mirror gardening column in 1967. This week, we are answering some contemporary readers’ queries. I wouldn’t be surprised if in another 40-odd years the very same [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening in small steps

Around the world, bonsai are known as plants that live for a very long time. In Japan, ancient collections of bonsai are passed from generation to generation and the most famous bonsai are owned by very wealthy businessmen. “In S [...]