Gardening

Go to Source Well, here we go on the last of three articles about gardening for your good health! Hope you’ve enjoyed the information and found something that was useful to you … that’s the reason we write! Thank you for…

Go to Source MAT COWARD explains how to grow a tasty crop of purslane SUMMER purslane is a very useful and unusual salad plant — and it’s easy to grow. There’s just one obstacle to…

Go to Source Staff Report NewsWest 9 ODESSA - A new park at the Boys and Girls Club of Odessa is helping the group teach kids about gardening. City officials gave the land and water to the group and…

Go to Source |By Judy Sharpe THIS year one of our lovelier flowering natives has been in bloom for some weeks due to the unseasonal weather. Acacia podalryifolia is covered in yellow balls of fluff,…

Go to Source By GEORGIA OSLAND HANDS-ON: Emma Hocking, 4, Sophie Oliver, 5, Joseph Lee, 4, and Cameron McLennan water the Cardiff Early Education and Care Centre's vegetable garden. CARDIFF Early…

Go to Source A group of volunteer gardeners got together Tuesday (June 3) to beautify the Alpena Community College campus by planting thousands of flowers they've grown since seedlings. The gardening enthusiasts are…

Go to Source Summertime is basil-time in the Old Pueblo. As the nights stay warm, the sun shines for hours on end and the soil temperatures rise - all conditions that basil love. Originally native to India, basil is now grown…

Go to Source By Grady Trimble, WLBZ OLD TOWN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- After a long winter, Travis Rackliffe and his family always look forward to being able to garden. "To get outside and…

Go to Source DAYLILIES: The Daylily Growers of Dallas is sponsoring the American Hemerocallis Society’s regional convention and flower show. 1 to 4 p.m. Friday. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 14315 Midway Road, Addison. The flower show is…

Go to Source Members of the Azalea Garden Club are optimistic the future of their club is in good hands. They’re counting on members of the Berri Patch Kids Junior Garden Club, who are not afraid to dirty…

Millions of tonnes of food and drink are binned in homes across the world each year. Here are a couple of ideas on how to store food to minimise spoilage and tips on how to plan meals and portions to cut down waste: One exciting way to…

Go to Source BY HENRY HOMEYER THIS YEAR I started my tomatoes indoors much earlier than I usually do. Normally I start them on April 10 at 10:14. Only kidding. I start them, most years, during the second…

Taking pride in his garden has resulted in Stawell's Michael Joynson winning a statewide garden competition. Competitions are conducted by the Department of Human Services to encourage residents living in…

Bees are pulling a disappearing act. Honeybees are vanishing from their hives. Bumblebee numbers have crashed so radically that some species are believed extinct. Even native solitary bees are in decline. Food supplies…

Little hands making a big impact. Fourth and fifth grade students at Erie Elementary are working to get their plants prepped for their big produce sale. "To make money, because we are self sufficient," said fifth…

People in Cedar Rapids enjoyed a gardening getaway Easter Sunday. The Noelridge Greenhouse Easter Showcase has been an Easter weekend tradition since 1972. Every year, organizers say it's the…

WELL, we have certainly had welcome rain - a little sun would be useful now to prevent fungal diseases. Keep a watchful eye on those drought-tolerant plants, which have tended to dominate the landscape. …

Charlie Dimmock will be among gardening stars heading to the Lowry Outlet Mall's Garden Party Celebrity Gardener Charlie Dimmock knows just how we can meet new health recommendations that we eat…

Gardening and yard care power equipment maker Troy-Bilt is going beyond the product pitch to an appeal to brand equity with a new social, consumer-generated content program, "Think Spring," which lets digital neighbors…