Gardening News and Miscellany

Monday Miscellany: DIY Garden Ideas and a Great Magazine

October 10, 2011 0 comments
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Well, the first rains have arrived here in Humboldt, which generally means – Christmas is coming! Yeah, I hear all the groans. But seriously folks, if you aren’t going to take the slacker route and get everybody gift cards, now’s the time to start making some crafts for people, so you have time to screw [...]

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Slow Love: The Editor of Home and Garden Magazine Learns to Relax (and Even Garden a Bit)

September 9, 2011 22 comments
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As a business owner and writer, slowing the heck down is one of those things that sounds good in practice but never actually happens. Even when I schedule a do-nothing day, it seems to get booked up with all kinds of activities until the day off is no longer exactly that. So it was a [...]

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Two Bookish Giveaways

September 2, 2011 0 comments
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Since my giveaways have finished up for the week, I thought I’d take a moment to let you know about two others that I have most certainly entered. First, Margaret Roach of the elegant gardening website A Way to Garden is doing a Labor Day giveaway of her memoir, And I Shall Have Some Peace [...]

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Monday Miscellany: Read This Now Edition

August 14, 2011 2 comments
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This week, it’s all about books. And, um, giveaways. Of books! First off, Timber Press, publishers of so many of my favorite gardening books, is holding a giveaway for the deer-resistant gardening book I profiled recently for the Christian Science Monitor. Not only can you win a copy of the book 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants, [...]

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Monday Miscellany: Sustainability Freaks

August 8, 2011 2 comments
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Kicking things off, Ginny Stibolt takes P. Allen Smith and others to task for taking the old-skool pesticide philosophy (kill! Kill them all!) and trying to make it eco by using organic pesticides. And sure, if you’ve gotta spray, go organic. But as she points out, poison is poison, people. If you care about supporting [...]

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Monday Miscellany: Drunken Shenanigans Edition

August 1, 2011 8 comments
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Local author Amy Stewart has become my very favorite non-fiction writer, not only because she’s so fun to read, but because her writing is so very practical in everyday life. Case in point: the other day, a mildly tipsy houseguest was about to tell me a story about banana slugs for the third time. I [...]

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Monday Miscellany: Miracle-Gro Rant, Containers for Wildlife, Small Vines, and A Defense of Yellow

June 20, 2011 9 comments
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Trey Pitsenberger, owner of Golden Gecko Nursery, is a constant agitator in favor of independent nurseries, common-sense gardening, and truthfulness in marketing. His latest target? Miracle-Gro’s idiotic desire to stuff their bullshit blue fertilizer where it’s not desired. He says: Why are you mixing fertilizer with a product designed for drainage? In my mind this [...]

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Monday Miscellany: New Books, Lamb’s Ears, Succulents and Adorable Chickens

June 13, 2011 2 comments
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Jumping right into this week’s Cool Stuff, there have been some wonderful new books published recently that I’ve reviewed over on Amazon. Mark Diacono’s The Food Lover’s Garden was a hit with me – fuchsia fruit leather? Daylily fritters? Yes, please! Then, I got an early copy of Ruth Rogers Clausen’s new book 50 Beautiful [...]

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Monday Miscellany: Biennials, DIY Liquid Fertilizer, and Garden Tunes

June 6, 2011 0 comments
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It’s that time of the week again, where I find the awesome online and bring it to you. First off, the ever-brilliant Michael King from Perennial Meadows advises that this is the time of year to scatter seeds of all those old-fashioned biennial cottage garden favorites. Biennials, of course, grow foliage one year and flowers [...]

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Wish You Were Here (a Guest Post by The Garden Rockstar)

May 25, 2011 4 comments
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A guest post by author Michael Nolan When Gen offered to let me take the helm here at North Coast Gardening for the day, I couldn’t resist. I mean really; I live in the Southeastern US, I was never professionally trained as a gardener and to top it off, I love patchouli. What could possibly [...]

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