By Eleanor Wilson PRECEDE: As National Gardening Week encourages Aussies to dig their green thumbs into the soil, local community gardens are bustling with activity. Gazette journalist ELEANOR WILSON broke out her gardening gloves to explore the Kooweerup Community Garden on its mission to promote healthy living. BREAKOUT QUOTE: “Getting [students] involved in the community, […]
Sooke Garden Club meets on Oct. 25 Cory McInnis | Contributed Cleaning out the shed last week, as I felt fall approaching all too soon, I saw some unmarked envelopes and bags of seeds on a shelf tucked away at the back. Now, as any seed saver will tell you, you first label and date […]
Agave huachucensis plants are native to the Arizona climate’s bright sun and rocky, quick draining soil. They can handle -5 degrees too! I took a week off and headed to Arizona for some last-of-the-season heat. The soil that I saw wasn’t. Plants were rooted in mostly sand and rock, but flowers, trees, and shrubs have […]
Gardener warns against ridding your yard of a commonly removed ‘weed’: ‘Not … as bad as you think’ Yahoo News Source link