Home and Garden Roundup for Week of 1/26/2009 - Garden Plants and Gardening Forum

lspichkin · 01-26-2009, 10:32 AM

A weekly roundup of the top stories from the Home & Garden sections of leading newspapers around the country.

The Los Angeles Times Home & Garden: Victory gardens sprout up again

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These days, digging some holes and planting a little lettuce or a few beets is a political act. Just ask Julie Stern, who shares a backyard organic garden with her neighbor in Topanga Canyon. Stern worked at the polls on election day. "There's a feeling you had," she said. "You saw your neighbors, and you felt good about what you did." Growing food, she added, "I sort of do feel the same way."

Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times

The Seattle Post Intelligencer NW Gardens: Edibles: New vegetable varieties look promising

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Now that the seed catalogs have arrived, I'm mulling over which new vegetable varieties to try. For me, growing new varieties is an annual enthusiasm. Two regional catalogs worth acquiring for that purpose are from Nichols Garden Nursery, 800-422-3985, nicholsgardennursery.com and Territorial Seed Co., 800-626-0866, territorialseed.com

Yum Yum Peppers - Territorial Seed Co.

The Houston Chronicle: Multi-grafted fruits are a practical solution

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Whether you are looking for more variety, an extended harvest, a conversation piece, or just a beautiful spring blooming specimen in your garden, multi-grafted fruit trees are a wonderful option.

Multi-grafted apples, peaches, and plums have between two and five varieties of the same fruit grafted onto the same rootstock, or trunk. The varieties are selected for compatibility in growing conditions, chill hour requirements, and bloom time.

'Gold Chickasaw' plums -- Heidi Sheesley Treesearch Farms Inc.

The Miami Herald Gardening: Tweak gardening practices as the weather goes to extremes

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As climate change brings weather extremes, hotter temperatures and increasing demand on a diminishing water supply, not only our gardens but our gardening techniques must be fine tuned.

Miami Herald

The New York Times: An Eden Throughout the Year

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I’VE wanted a greenhouse ever since I started putting seedlings on windowsills 30 years ago and later began tending them under jittery grow lights in the dark cellar of my old farmhouse, where black snakes nap on the water heater.

So one wintry day a while ago, when Rock, my boyfriend, and I were standing in a friend’s homemade greenhouse filled with blooming citrus trees, I was ripe for change.

Darren Higgins/The New York Times

Penny · 01-27-2009, 05:45 AM

You have a nice big yard, and your peppers look great!

obland · 03-06-2009, 06:43 AM

Great info ty

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obland Green Gardener Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 7	Great info ty __________________ Outdoor Fireplaces Columbus Ohio Paver Patios Columbus Ohio

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Penny Green Gardener Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 20	You have a nice big yard, and your peppers look great!